Costruiremo insieme un nuovo modello di sviluppo creativo, tramite l’auto-costruzione di un “oggetto da abitare” all’interno di un’opera incompiuta siciliana. Ricercheremo insieme materiali, tecniche e metodi costruttivi per realizzare l’installazione finale.

I 30 partecipanti avranno la grande opportunità di cooperare nella costruzione di un’unica opera. Essa sarà il frutto dei loro interrelati singoli contributi artistici e potrà vivere grazie alla simultanea performance delle arti. Il workshop avrà luogo nel cantiere di CASA 4, il terreno circostante ospiterà il laboratorio del gruppo di lavoro del workshop. Un’opera di “Incompiuto Siciliano” costituirà il luogo e la scena dell’installazione effimera.

PERIOD: 9-20 September 2010

CREDITS

Organized by Elisava and Stardust* (Barcelona, Spain)

Supported by the Watermill Center founded by Robert Wilson (New York, USA), the Department of History and Project of the University of Palermo (Italy), the Municipality of Marsala.

Collaborators: Master in Design and Architecture_ELISAVA-UPF (Barcelona, Spain), MAG LAB + AIU, (Arab International, University_Damascus, Syria) Accademia d’Arte Abadir (Catania, Italy)

Sponsored by the Ebdaat Magazine (Damascus, Syria)

Graphic design: André Macedo

CONCEPT

Everything is ephemeral, because everything is subjected to the flow and transformation of the life. Buildings, all forms of artworks, sculptures, paintings, music, theater, movies … The ephemeral is conceived as the link between the contemporary arts. Its transformative performance is related to the transformation of materials, their origins, application, cycle of life, death, recycling … the ephemeral is able to be a new experimental paradigm for sustainable development.

Arts’ connection

The value of the interaction between arts is strongly related to the dialogue between cultures. We do not need selective and rigid categories of arts and of cultures and we want to explore the richness of the combined value of arts and cultures working together. They’ll operate simultaneously, they won’t have limits or boundaries and they’ll cooperate at a new equal culture of making. On the footsteps of Watermill Center Laboratory founded by Bob Wilson, we learn the miraculous developing of global network transcending age, experience, social, religious and cultural backgrounds.

In Sicily

The capitalist model whose center of gravity is in the U.S. and in the northern hemisphere, has generated a resources’ depauperation. A model that has transformed “Europe as a territorial zipper and the Mediterranean area as a simple connector. The crisis we are passing trough is not just economic or productive and social but is, overall, the crisis of a cultural system and of a consequential planned system for the future [...] The challenge in front of us, is to oppose to the mad core of the turbo-capitalism that has produced a flat and always similar architecture and transgenic cities [...] the strength of a responsible and networking planning of the Mediterranean area. [...] From South as main centre of the project and from Sicily it radiates a powerful energy of renewal. [...] will be entirely involved in the “project for the future” that the Mediterranean communities are willing to accomplish, in a renewed pact between the city and the territory, the environment and the landscape.” (Maurizio Carta, Mediterraneo_Liquid Project) We can build a new development’s model, with new values. Sicily (and South) is taken as the hub of a new art’s development, the nerve center of economic, politic, social and creative growth. It has its roots in a meeting of cultures. The last fifty years, Sicily, making an attempt to produce a renewed contemporary art, has produced more than 160 works left unfinished. They are signs of a collective memory that are waiting a new definition and meaning in the sicilian landscape.

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