Planning Maximum Impact: The Art of Davide Bertocchi

In early January, I sat down with artist Davide Bertocchi at Caravan, a cozy café in Paris's 11th arrondissement down the street from his apartment. Bertocchi, whose performance and mixed media works often deal with the limits of scientific knowledge, has freed himself from the confines of a traditional studio space; he realizes the majority of his work on the computer. MacBook in hand, he told me about his recent participation in PERFORMA 09, where his video Exhaust (2009) was included in a screening series, WHITE NOISE III: Pandora's Sound Box, at White Box—and his current participation, with N.O. Gallery, Milan, in ArteFiera, touted as the oldest international art fair in Italy, as well as his upcoming shows at Neoncampobase, Bologna, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai, Galerie Pangèe, Montreal and the Velan Center for Contemporary Art, Turin. We talked about science, politics and the ethics of collaborative work. Then he told me about a meteor he plans to launch into space in 2020.
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