Momentarium : : by Markuz Wernli Saitô

Residency in Anyang, South Korea: With Han Sam Son I plan to realize a community-based project at Stone & Water art center in July and August.

Supercalifragilistic – The Show: The salt installation of La Mente Fresca project is on view in Villasor (Sardinia) through September.

"Special Mention" at iD+consonni call for Public Art.

With Eva Petric and Zoran Poposki I filed a proposal for "Culinary Connections in Sondika" that received was among the top 5 entries (out of 203) at the ID+consonni call in Sondika.

What happens when 10 visual artists work together on one mural project for a Sardinian sheep farmer?

While the artists incorporated the commissioner's requests, they also were looking for ways to fuse their own artistic vision into one piece.

Agostino Argis videotapes the guest artists visiting his sheep farm.

The project evolved casually out of an unexpected encounter between Beatrice Catanzaro, Markuz Wernli Saitô and stock breeder Agostino Argis. In the first half of May 2010 the spontaneous collaboration between guest artists, farmer family and the local population lead to the realization of the 35-meter long mural located right next to a major NATO airbase in southern Sardinia.

Project report: Growing Radishes with 30 Families
The zine Create The Situation (CTS) by Jennifer Delos Reyes and Kerri-Lynn Reeves invited me to create an issue in the Radishes for Adoption that I realized in spring 2009. The publication illustrates on 8 pages my motivations and the outcome of this urban food growing initiative.

Exhibition report: Towards a Culture of Peace
In late August 2008, a group of international photographers explored visual languages of peace that are neither antitodes of war, nor sugar-sweet utopia. Markuz Wernli Saito looks at how artists expand from inner peace, scrutinize meaning in conflict, seek ways of provoking peace, or touch on empathy and oneness. No matter what creative strategy is taken, peace is created only in relationship.

badatsports: Episode 136, Ampersand International
Brian Anders and Marc Deblanc talk at Ampersand gallery in San Francisco with Lori Gordon, Hope Hilton, Markuz Wernli Saito and Bruno Mauro about Lying to Curators and strange Effects of Silence.

CASAzine issue 4: Drawing the Line (between art and activism)
In the most recent issue I am discussing with curators Milena Placentile and Monika Vykoukal the public action series At Your Service where we look closer at activist implications and combined efforts towards social transformation.

ASPECT The Chronicle of New Media Art, Vol. 10: Rural Educator and environmental journalist Deborah Mantle didn't shy from getting up early and wet feet. She joined me to a City Canal Tour and realized a commented video-feature for this DVD magazine. Read the experience report on wilderness in the urban.

DIALOG IN COMMON

Brett Bloom [Temporay Services] reflects on the Service Paradigm in art: "It is the social spaces that artists produce. This can produce a sociological analysis if we are talking of art as providing a service."

Jane Trowell [Platform London] talks about artful collaboration and public learning: "Basically it's about making a subject dynamic, which before was made accessible to a very specific audience through restricted language."

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Momentarium pays particular attention to what happens when our very presence becomes the catalyst for a “work of art” — situations which lead to an experience we can possibly integrate into our lives by fusing reality with carefully calculated artifice.