Ephemeral Arts Connection

PERIOD: 9-20 September 2010

REGISTRATIONS UNTIL: extended until the 20th of August 2010 (if you need hotel) and until the 1st of September 2010 (if you don’t need hotel).

CREDITS

Organized by Elisava and Stardust* (Barcelona, Spain)

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

Output

We’ll build together a new model of creative development, with the self-construction of an “object to live” inside an “Incompiuto Siciliano”. We’ll research together materials, techniques and construction methods for the realization and the construction of the final installation. All 30 participants will have the opportunity to cooperate in building a unique work. It will made up of their own artistic contributions and it will live trough their various simultaneous performances.

Laboratory’s Location

The workshop will take place around the building site of CASA 4, and the field will host the laboratory of the creative team work. An “Incompiuto Siciliano” will be part and scenario of the ephemeral installation.

More info here