”If tears have no eyes to climb or ears to be heard, how will you express them? To me, writing is entering an unexplored territory almost blind, until an image comes forward – burning my eyes and claiming to be narrated. It could be dirty, childlike, nervous, sympathetic, dramatic or peaceful. It needs to get out of your head – as soon as possible”
Dr Maria Bada is a trained Sociolinguists specialised in Endangered Languages. A former researcher, now Platform Manager, based in London since 14 years, as an artist and a curator she has been exploring queer identity, biodiversity, landscape change.
WRITING ACTIVITIES AND PRIZES
– Winner of the XI. Edition of the Biennal of Young Artist from Europe and the Mediterranean (Bjcem) in 2003 and of various national prices for poetry.
Among her publications:
– Maria Claudia Bada, “Il sepolcro”, in Luisa Gasbarri (ed.), Quattordici giorni a domani, Teramo, Demian Edizioni, 2006, pp. 27–34.
– Grossi Enza – Bada M. Claudia – Manselli Claudia, Tracce vol. 72-73, Pescara, Tracce, 2006.
– Maria Claudia Bada, “Hi, virus”, La Luna di Traverso. Laboratorio di narrazioni: Incontro, 8/21, Parma, MUP Editore, 2008, pp. 25–27.
– Maria Claudia Bada, “Segni di un nuovo tempo romano”, La Luna di Traverso. Laboratorio di narrazioni: Times New Romani, 8/22, Parma, MUP Editore, 2008, pp. 28-29.
CURATING PROJECTS
Pescara (Italy) With NoHayBanda, a film-makers independent network and cultural association, she has curated and organised the following events:
• January 2003–September 2003: Censorship and movies, a day of film and debate on censorship inside Festival delle Letterature, 1st edition, Museo Vittoria Colonna.
• May 2004 – May 2008: Video Italienes Autoproduites, in Primotempo, organised by T.S.I. Florian, Contemporary Theatre Pescara.
• August 2004: Raccolta video Differenziata. • December 2006: Documentary filmfest – Docupe, 1st edition, Cinema Massimo, Pescara.
• Summer 2007: Matta Estate, Rassegna Internazionale di Cinema Sperimentale e Videoarte, Ex Mattatoio. 1
• August 2008: La notte dei musei, VideoNuit au Musee Cascella/VideoNotte al Museo Cascella, Museo Cascella. Bamberg (Germany)
• November 2007: Curator (with Rapahela Schneider) of Bandalarga, a night for the Italian short-films produced by NoHaBanda, Roten Salon, LICHTSPIELKINO.
London (UK) • October 2010: Soundscapes Gallery interdisciplinary project “Batting the Trees” Community Project to explore environmental balance, biodiversity and landscape change, Bodrum Café, 61 Stoke Newington High Street, London N16 8EL.
• February 2013–June 2013: Curator (with Irini Papadimitriou) of “SHAPE THE FUTURE: Living and Design the City ” (9 May –5 June 2013) Recycled Art Contest and Exhibition at Watermans Arts Centre, London. Artists: Katrin Spranger, bLuELab (AKA Alex Barchiesi, Juditta Marinaro), Stavros Kotsireas, Jane Webb, Michael Szpakowski, Paul Masotic, paula roush, Maria Korporal and Marcia Theophilo, Nikki Whitlock, Della Rees, Beccy Mccray, Yannick Perichon, Ruth Martindale and Massimo Saverio Maida.
EXHIBITIONS
• 22 April 2009, Giornata culturale della Facultad de Filosofia y Letras, Facultad de Filosofia y Letras, University dell’ Estremadura, Caceres, Spain – “Liturgie” cycle.
• 8 August 2009, Festival dei giovani artisti Vengo a cercARTI: 3rd edition, Civitella Rovereto (AQ), Italy: selected artist. • 11–12 September 2009, Bitonto Art Festival Contest – Id-entita’ ri-tratte selected artist for the exhibition;
• 12 – 16 October 2009, contest “Il 14esimo mistero: passatofuturo”: selected artist, Galleria Limiti Inchiusi ex Onmi Campobasso, Italy.
• 13 – 21 November 2010, HOMELESS GALLERY: Part of Photomonth – East London Photography Festival 2010 (“Autodafe” photography project)
• 14 February – 06 March 2011, „Von der Dunkelheit ins Licht“ Ausstellung (photography and paintings), BISTUMHAUS St.Otto, Heinrichsdamm 22, Bamberg, Germany.
• Community Wildlife Gardening Volunteer Project -East Dulwich, the “Incredible Edible Flowerable”, part of the Chelsea Fringe 2012.
• April 2013, Micro-publishing newspaper, Maria Claudia Bada: pages 16 – 19. Part of the exhibition ‘Dreaming through –on & into the exotic’ at the 198 Contemporary Arts and Learning, Herne Hill, London, UK
• 26 March–26 May 2013, Member of ISOCULTURE Project, Watermans Arts Centre, London. Exhibition production: Teras 0.1. (book format/text and drawings), Teras world(s) illustrated dictionary.
An academic bio is available here: https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?hl=en&user=iFDnaM0AAAAJ