2018
The 24, 25 e 26 August 2018Biennial environmental art festival returns for the fifth edition Seminaria Sogninterra.
The alleys, gardens, and towers of the ancient village of Maranola, overlooking the Gulf of Gaeta, will once again be home to a group of artists called to dialogue with the village and its inhabitants through unprecedented and site-specific projects that invite reflection on the sharing of artistic experience that becomes community practice, as a willingness to rethink the territory, give it recognition and transform tradition into regeneration.
In a nearly one-kilometer art trail, we will explore the theme “The Memory of Water.” through environmental installations, video projections, interactive works, murals and sculptures. In one of the most drought-stricken territories in 2017, talking about water is a practical, social, political and symbolic necessity. On this theme, curated by Isabella Indolfi with curatorial support from Anna Zavedij, the artists will reflect Bernard Vercelli Of the Quiet Ensemble, Davide Dormino e Anna Frants, who are returning to Maranola for the second time to deepen their relationship with the village and pioneer new artists, including Elena Gubanova, Ivan Govorkov, Licia Galizia, Luciano Sozio, Bifido, Claudia Col and sound artists Alexey Grachev, Sergey Komarov and Michelangelo Lupone. To encourage the fluid and participatory aspect of Seminaria, there will be two projects taking shape through public calls: “Inside Out project” is a collective action included in the overall project of JR, winner of the 2011 TED Prize, which invites Maranola residents to share their stories and images with other communities around the world; finally, “Precarious Architectures”, under the patronage of the Order of Architects of Latina, will carry out a self-construction training workshop aimed at a group of architects and enthusiasts to create a bamboo light sculpture.
Strengthening the connection between the festival and the Maranolese community will be a reflection that was initiated at the end of the last Seminaria Sogninterra to feel the urgency of translating the artist’s work into more directly pedagogical terms.
Starting from an idea of Marianna Fazzi, the project LEDIFICIO, realized by the curatorial collective ALAgroup and the artist John Cascone.
LEDIFIC, now the Center for Documentation and Studies on Aurunca Culture A. De Santis – Parco Regionale dei Monti Aurunci, is a former school located in the highest part of the medieval village of Maranola. In this context, strongly devoted to the recovery of tradition, Ledifico Infinito a work in three movements or days – Reenacting the Future / Transmitting / The Impossible– will be realized. Ledificio infinito will be experienced by the inhabitants of Maranola and the audience of Seminaria as a formless construction site, animated by lectures, workshops, performances in which, by bringing out some narratives from both the past and the future, an attempt will be made, through practices of collective rewriting, to shape other possible, infinite and unexpected realities.
