2016

4th Edition | Scale 1:1
September 1-2-3, 2016

Back in the medieval village of Maranola, overlooking the Gulf of Gaeta, the biennial environmental art festival Seminaria Sogninterra. Among alleys, towers, public and private spaces in a kilometer-long exhibition route, 12 artists from all over Italy and abroad tune into the country’s social and geographical frequencies.
The theme is scale 1:1, which indicates the relationship between the artwork and reality, a relationship and the need for a dialogue as equals, to reappropriate space in a dialogical manner, with human-scale installations that create livable environments in which the audience can immerse themselves and get involved in the space and body of the work, complementing its meaning.
Led by the artistic direction of Isabella Indolfi and Marianna Fazzi, the artists Emanuela Ascari (Maranello, Italy), Laura Cionci (Milan, Italy), Alexandra Dementieva (Brussels, Belgium), Davide Dormino (Rome, Italy), Anna Frants (New York, USA), Alexei Kostroma (Berlin, Germany), Giacomo Lion (Rome, Italy), Aurora Meccanica (Turin, Italy), Gino Sabatini Odoardi (Pescara, Italy), Stalker (Rome, Italy), Saverio Todaro (Turin, Italy) and Delphine Valli (Rome, Italy), are called to dialogue with the village through site-specific works such as videos, sculptures, installations, multimedia, relational or performative works. Outside in the scenic Piazza Ricca the sounds promoted by Esperimenti Festival, which brings to Maranola the research of young emerging Italian musicians such as K’an and Lemon Lights.
The townspeople and volunteers will do the rest by adopting the artists and opening their homes to the public; their involvement is, in fact, the key that allows this independent festival to bring contemporary art out of museums and galleries, straight into people’s lives, with the belief that participatory production and free distribution can provide an alternative model for the economic, cultural and social development of the area.
Included in the 2016 Lazio Creativo catalog and sponsored by the Lazio Region, the festival is organized by the cultural association Seminaria Sogninterra and the Municipality of Formia, with contributions from Michele Gradone’s UnipolSai of Gaeta and Banca Popolare del Cassinate.
This year Seminaria benefits from two important international collaborations: on the one hand, the Romaeuropa Foundation, creator of the most important festival in Italy for the promotion and dissemination of contemporary art, theater, dance and music; and on the other hand, the Cyland Media Art Lab in St. Petersburg, i.e., a major digital arts event held annually in Russia.
In addition, Seminaria expands its network in synergy with MAP – Museo dell’Agro Pontino in Pontinia (LT), which has become a viable museum since 2011, and Guilmi Art Project (GAP) an active art residency project in Guilmi (CH) and SITI, a cross-disciplinary workshop that investigates the relationship between art, public space and territory.
Among the excellences of the territory Seminaria collaborates with the Bertolt Brecht Theater in Formia and the Contemporary Art Gallery in Gaeta.

September 1-2-3, 2016

Photographs Andrea De Meo and Margherita Zanardi
Video Sguarsdoingingiro