The environmental art biennial SEMINARIA is a place of difference and wonder, of relationships and sharing, which every two years at the end of summer for a week transforms the features of the village of Maranola. The biennial is the realization of the dreams that the Association sows during the different and multiple activities that it carries out in all directions and throughout the year. Here the efforts and emotions coagulate, fruits of the work in the territory, of the involvement of the Maranolesi and of artistic research.
The guideline of curators and artists is the dream as an effective experience of bodily, perceptive, imaginative writing: a way to determine, from time to time, the plot of one’s “feeling”, modifying oneself in relation to the energies captured in the places.
About 20 artists for each edition are called to critically and operationally explore the physical and social dimension of Maranola. Invited to spend a short period of residence in the village, the artists become antennas, epidermal and neuronal radars, which tune into the different geographical and social variables intercepted at each stage of their journey. They spontaneously reclaim the space and give shape to interventions that oscillate between temporary installation and event, they create microtransformations, spatial performative actions, ritual actions. The visitors, while crossing a path of about 1 kilometer, made of climbs and descents that wind through the alleys of the village, between public and private places, encounter the artistic interventions that, like interstellar destinations, connect the points in space, to create connections between people and places. You enter and exit, you see and continue, you live and remember.
The challenge that SEMINARIA proposes to artists is to create new geographical maps, based on identities that change with the variation of space-time coordinates, mnemonic accumulations and personal angles that, one step after another, they collect during the residency.
The invitation to visitors is to get involved in an unusual exhibition path, a crossing in which to get lost and recognize themselves, in a continuous game between scene and backstage, where between public and private places it is possible to witness the incessant unfolding of images and stories.
