2012

II Edition
August24-25-26 2012

“A layer of mud still covered the ground, but here and there small blue flowers were already blooming.”

After the first edition of the Festival, SEMINARIA continues its activities by locating in the words of Raymond Queneau the natural declination of the subtitle: Sogninterra. In the blue flowers lie metaphors, memories, quotations from elsewhere and insights capable of lightly countering the asphyxiated patterns of contemporary living.
In “The Invention of the Everyday,” Michel De Certeau writes of the need to “articulate a second, poetic geography above the geography of literal sense,” insinuating “other journeys in the functionalist and historical order of circulation”; “what drives the walk,” he adds, “are the relics of sense and sometimes their discards, the overturned remains of great ambitions.”
The artists identified, in dialogue with each other, will share experiences and pasts that will give added value to an experiential reconsideration of the territory and its crossing. Luigi Ghirri in “Paesaggio Italiano” states that “basically in every visitation of places we carry with us this load of lived and already seen, but the effort that we are daily led to make is to rediscover a gaze that erases and forgets habit; not so much to see again with different eyes, but because of the need to orient ourselves again in space and time.”
The activity of the contemporary flâneur on the other hand has a threefold enunciative function: it is a process of appropriation of the topographical system; it is a spatial realization of place; and it involves an intersubjective contract. In other words, as an act of words, even an elementary practice such as walking constitutes meanings and puts the city grammar into variation with its creativity.
What the selected artists are invited to draw are lines and boundaries that have to do with the lived dimension of travel, born of a subjective shift that points forward, unrolling a progressive line, open to a thousand possible directions starting with the body, which in movement is embodied and drawn.
Among the novelties of the second edition is one that has arisen from the observation of the fruitful planning bond established between the artists, the inhabitants and the place. This is the reason that convinced the curators to invite some of the 2011 artists to submit them to the challenge of returning for the second time, carry out a passing of the baton with the newcomers and thus become “residents” in their own right. These will be: Carlo De Meo, Christian Ghisellini, Serena Piccinini, Daniele Spanò and Cecilia Viganò.
A large number of side events will enliven the village during the festival, such as theatrical performances, under the direction of Ferruccio Padula, and concerts at the foot of the Caetani Tower.
Concurrently with the festival, the Cultural Association Seminaria Sogninterra is launching a series of workshops, activated in collaboration with theEnte Parco dei Monti Aurunci, some of the artists and AMANDA, an association that will curate “Marcondì,” the comic strip side project, with the scientific contribution of Kanjano, the collaboration of Serena Piccinini and aimed at the children of Maranola.