Alice Cicolini worked as a curatorial consultant to the festival director, Di Robson. She was particularly involved in the commissioning of “Games for the Games” “Utterly Elegant,” “Campo del Cielo, Field of Sky” and "The Agreement."
EXHIBITION ROAD SHOW was a free to attend festival on Exhibition Road, that explored the creative potential of this extraordinary new urban streetscape with games, dance, scientific experiments and debates, music, acrobatics and aerial displays, new writers’ commissions and visual art installations. It ran from Saturday 28 July to Sunday 5 August, the first nine days of the London 2012 Olympic Games, providing a celebratory festival of culture to mirror the sporting celebrations. The programme included a ROAD SHOW ballroom; extraordinary choreographies and circus feats by resident performance company The Exhibitionists; vintage board games to try your hand at; and music from acts ranging from Eliza Carthy and Band, the Royal College of Music Brass Quintet, Ebony steel band, St Andrew’s College Drum & Pipe Band and folk fiddler Dave Swarbrick.
"Campo del Cielo, Field of Sky"
Alice Cicolini was involved in the commissioning of “Campo del Cielo, Field of Sky” by Katie Peterson.
Guided by experts and a plethora of amateur ‘meteorite hunters’, Katie Peterson took a meteorite that had travelled through space and time for 4.5 billion years, cast it, melted it, then recast it back into a new version of itself. The piece was exhibited on Exhibition Road for audiences to gather round and touch. No stranger to out-of-this-world projects with an earthy dimension, Paterson has collaborated with leading scientists and scientific institutions including the W.M. Keck Observatory and Caltech.
"The Agreement"
Alice Cicolini was involved in commissioning Tomas Libertiny in creating the public living art work, "The Agreement." Studio Libertiny teamed up with Peter James from the Physics Chelsea Garden and Rudolf Moravčík from The Beekeeping Museum in Slovakia.
Studio Libertiny designed an organic tower-like structure on which the bees were invited to build their home (wax honeycombs). The skeleton was carefully engineered to accommodate for tensions and stability as well as minimal obstruction for building of cells. The title of the work insinuates the fragile relationship between nature and technology / one can not force nature only invite her when the conditions are set right hence the mutual agreement.