PERIOD: 9-20 September 2010
CREDITS
ORGANIZED BY: Elisava (Spain–www.mag-da.eu), Stardust* (Spain, Brasil, Italy, USA,Syria-www.stardustudio.com)
DIRECTORS: Ignasi Perez Arnal/Elisava, Francesco Ducato/Stardust*
SUPPORTED BY: Municipality of Marsala, Watermill Center founded by Robert Wilson(New York, USA), Department of History and Project of the University of Palermo
COLLABORATORS: Master in Design and Architecture, Elisava-UPF (Spain), MAG-LAB(Materials Advanced Architecture Generative Laboratory), AIU(Arab International University, Syria), ABADIR-Accademia d`Arte(Catania, Italy)
SPONSORED BY: Casa 4, Municipality of Marsala, IBDAAT Magazine(Damascus, Syria),Società Canottieri Marsala, Autoservizi Salemi, Sporting Club Marsala, Sole Luna
MEDIA PARTNER: Abitare – International Design Magazine (Milan, Italy), Marsal@.it
PRODUCTION & PHOTOGRAPHY: Carla Athayde (Stardust*)
INVITED ARTISTS: Akkura – unfinished sound
LECTURERS: Serena Del Puglia (Stardust*), Francesco Ducato (Stardust*), Ignasi Perez Arnal (Elisava), Giacomo Di Girolamo (Journalist), Lucy Giuliano (Architect), Santi Centineo (Architect), Incompiuto Siciliano, Tiziano Di Cara (Architect, Gallerist),Maurizio Carta (Architect, Urban Planner, Councillor of the historical center of Palermo)
TUTORS: Bea Goller (Architect_German-Spain), Marita Isobel Solberg (Artist_Norway),Aref Maksoud (Architect – Mag LAB_Syria)
SELECTED PARTICIPANT ARTISTS : Aza Stass, Ayman Ibrahim Basha, Noelle Oska, Qutaiba Qaddour, Khaled El-Amer El-Ashry, Eleonora Adesso, Simona Cudia, Giovanna Lentini,Carlo Pavia
SPECIAL LECTURERS: Olga Gutierrez Prat(Architect),Alessio Erioli(Engineer/Researcher)
SPECIAL GUESTS: Jörg Schröder (Architect/Researcher), Valentina Ciuffi(Journalist/Abitare), Peppe Maisto (Photographer), Ananda Falcao, Lucile Figueiredo
STRUCTURAL DESIGN CONSULTANCY: Alessio Erioli (Università di Bologna – Co-de-iT)
EPHEMERAL 2010 GADGETS: ARCHI·giana
GRAPHIC DESIGN: André Macedo
VIDEO BY: Peppe Grisafi
CONCEPT
Everything is ephemeral, because everything is subjected to the flow and transformation of the life. Buildings, all forms of artworks, sculptures, paintings, music, theater, movies … The ephemeral is conceived as the link between the contemporary arts. Its transformative performance is related to the transformation of materials, their origins, application, cycle of life, death, recycling … the ephemeral is able to be a new experimental paradigm for sustainable development.
Arts’ connection
The value of the interaction between arts is strongly related to the dialogue between cultures. We do not need selective and rigid categories of arts and of cultures and we want to explore the richness of the combined value of arts and cultures working together. They’ll operate simultaneously, they won’t have limits or boundaries and they’ll cooperate at a new equal culture of making. On the footsteps of Watermill Center Laboratory founded by Bob Wilson, we learn the miraculous developing of global network transcending age, experience, social, religious and cultural backgrounds.
In Sicily
The capitalist model whose center of gravity is in the U.S. and in the northern hemisphere, has generated a resources’ depauperation. A model that has transformed “Europe as a territorial zipper and the Mediterranean area as a simple connector. The crisis we are passing trough is not just economic or productive and social but is, overall, the crisis of a cultural system and of a consequential planned system for the future [...] The challenge in front of us, is to oppose to the mad core of the turbo-capitalism that has produced a flat and always similar architecture and transgenic cities [...] the strength of a responsible and networking planning of the Mediterranean area. [...] From South as main centre of the project and from Sicily it radiates a powerful energy of renewal. [...] will be entirely involved in the “project for the future” that the Mediterranean communities are willing to accomplish, in a renewed pact between the city and the territory, the environment and the landscape.” (Maurizio Carta, Mediterraneo_Liquid Project) We can build a new development’s model, with new values. Sicily (and South) is taken as the hub of a new art’s development, the nerve center of economic, politic, social and creative growth. It has its roots in a meeting of cultures. The last fifty years, Sicily, making an attempt to produce a renewed contemporary art, has produced more than 160 works left unfinished. They are signs of a collective memory that are waiting a new definition and meaning in the sicilian landscape.
Output
We’ll build together a new model of creative development, with the self-construction of an “object to live” inside an “Incompiuto Siciliano”. We’ll research together materials, techniques and construction methods for the realization and the construction of the final installation. All 30 participants will have the opportunity to cooperate in building a unique work. It will made up of their own artistic contributions and it will live trough their various simultaneous performances.
Laboratory’s Location
The workshop will take place around the building site of CASA 4, and the field will host the laboratory of the creative team work. An “Incompiuto Siciliano” will be part and scenario of the ephemeral installation.
