2018
Platform for a dialogue between International operators on cultural practices and artistic visions of urban regeneration.
Make your actions reflect your words
Words declared, made public, are agents of change. They carry an inaugural energy, they do not simply serve storytelling, but, like the pieces of work they represent, they generate a “mutation of the context” in which they take place, “pointing towards an alternative sense distinct from common understanding, due to its singularity” (F. Guattari).
The 2018 edition of Altofest is devoted to space in discourse; thus, we would like to invite you to reflect here with us, on words that make the difference, words which better represent the projects we are taking care of, their relevance, their power of transmitting visions that lead us, and, beyond this, the urgency that drives us. These words allow us to make pacts, alliances, and to open dialogues.
These words are promises of the future, statements of commitment, calls to political action in art. These are the words defining time, method, space, context, resources and limits of intervention, strategic actions. During the roundtable, we will debate some of the words-action that have given life to processes of human/urban regeneration. Artistic and cultural actions often take root on the edge of consensus, never against it; they are a thorn in the side of the cultural system which is predominantly devoted to consumerism. We will try together to measure distances, to evaluate differences, to share risks and weaknesses, strengths, and common results. We will try to reconfigure the map of the cultural actions led by the organizations invited to the roundtable, in order to agree on a common discourse that might raise questions about the economic and political structures that rule our communities.
With the participation of:
Katja Somrak – Dance Theatre Ljubljana (Ljubljana, SI)
www.ptl.si
word: Perspective
Karine Decorne – Migrations (Wales, UK)
www.migrations.uk
word: Transformation
Claudio Angelini – Ipercorpo (Forlì, IT)
http://exatr.it/
www.ipercorpo.it
word: Intempestivo
Serena Nesti – Open Houses e EX-ATR per il Comune di Forlì (Forlì, IT)
urbact.eu/weekend-open-houses
exatr.it/
word: Discorso
Helene and Tommy Lawson – Collectif Art Mouv’ / Zone Libre (Bastia, FR-COR)
www.artmouv.com
word: Trasversalità
Rita Sebestyen – Otherness Project (Helsingør, DK)
othernessproject.org
word: Research
Giovanna Maroccolo – Fusion Art Center (Padova, IT)
www.fusionartcenter.it
word: Generatività
Clemente Tafuri – Teatro Akropolis (Genova, IT)
http://www.teatroakropolis.com/
word: Contronatura
Federica Rocchi – Ovest Lab (Modena, IT)
www.ovestlab.it
word: Intrapresa
Michelangelo Bellani – L’altra Mente Festival e Performing Santa Caterina – residenza artistica (Foligno, IT)
http://www.laltramente.org/
word: Luogo
Andrea Mochi Sismondi – Ateliersi (Bologna, IT)
http://ateliersi.it
word: Sì