2011

I Edition
August26-27 2011

“Man discovers, in the dream, that knot which ties his freedom to the necessity of the world.”

Italo Calvino was very fascinated by cities, those visible and invisible. Isidora like Paris, which in the writer’s imagination is like a huge chest of drawers, as many doors as stories to pull out of it. Cities like stories, almost fairy tales, like those in our tradition that are told to children to give them sweet dreams.
Stories that create”Sand Collections,” which draw new maps, more intimate and concrete than those to which books and atlases have accustomed us. Lines and boundaries that have to do with the lived dimension of travel, born from a subjective shift that points forward, unrolling a progressive line, open to a thousand possible directions starting from the body, which in movement is embodied and drawn.
Journeys that return at night, breaking down and recomposing into new geographies while remaining of the same substance.
The dream, rightly falling within the perceptual sphere of representation, has an experiential character. It is Micheal Foucault who rehabilitates it as a peculiar reality of language (a fundamental postulate of 19th century psychology), dispelling the myth that the dream is exclusively rhapsody of images. It is always in his view that in dreams men communicate with the meaning of things and allow themselves to be penetrated by those enigmatic, insistent words from elsewhere.
Everything here will say “I,” even objects and animals, as well as empty space and the distant and strange things that populate the phantasmagoria. The installations as interstellar destinations, capillary interventions as light as dreams, connecting the dots in space, creating connections between the people who will pass through it.
SEMINARIA wants to be a city melting pot of experiences that lived become new stories, seeds for new dreams. Each dream will draw a new city whose story will sprout new architecture.