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2018

6 - 15 July
artistic direction EVA NEKLYAEVA and LISA GILARDINO

NATURE OF FEAR

Think of something you’re really afraid of.

Notice what happens.
Your pulse becomes a little faster and you’re overcome by a slightly unpleasant sensation. A tiny echo of fear.
This is not what you wanted to feel, reading an intro to an arts Festival.
You push the feeling back, into that place in your mind where most of the unpleasant things are buried. This little act you just did, is the most common practice that is being repeated over and over again, every day, all over the world.
Fear – or the constant avoidance of fear – is the main condition of contemporaneity.

Fear has become more than just an emotion, but a driving force that rules over economics, politics, human relationships.
The markets fall and surge because of fear, and the elections are won and lost.
Fear is a bodily experience. Not only it resonates within the body, as shivers, tremors, rushed pulse, heart in mouth, difficulty to breathe – but it also endangers bodies, creates distances among bodies, limits bodies’ movements in public space. So, after the last year’s focus on the body as the political tool, this edition looks into the politics of emotions. Because while we are being told that fear is only natural, who you are afraid of – and why – is political.
Nyctohylophobia – the fear of forests at night – is a phobia learned from the fairy tales about monsters and murderers lurking in the darkness. Fear is made stronger by repetition of stereotypes: in the same way as children are shown scary pictures of dark forests, adults are being manipulated by terrifying narratives from the news cycles.

Affect, emotions and being close to nature have been traditionally seen outside of the rational vision of modernity, inferior to the scientific mind. We claim that emotional intelligence is one of the most urgent skills to learn, that it is crucial to recognize the role feelings play in the shaping of the world today.
This edition is an emotional landscape: a dark, lush forest at night. We invite you to re-discover the landscape, to reclaim the connection between mystery, nature and emotions. It offers a path through emotions and nature, taking you to the secret green meadows, along the wild rivers, on the seashore at sunrise. It is co-performed with nature, and here sunset plays as much of a role as performers on stage.
Can a Festival be a reminder of that feeling when you enter the forest at night as a child – the both exciting and terrifying feeling of freedom?

Warmly,

Eva Neklyaeva and Lisa Gilardino
and the Festival team


Download catalogue
  • from June 28 to July 05 / from July 06 to July 08
    • Tamara Cubas

    workshop / Multitud
  • July 06 / July 07 / July 08
    • Alessandro Sciarroni

    Don’t be frightened of turning the page
  • July 06 / July 07 / July 08
    • Michelle Moura

    FOLE
  • July 06
    • Tropicantesimo

    DJ-Set, Imbosco
  • July 06 / July 07 / July 08
    • Ligia Lewis

    minor matter
  • July 06 / July 07 / July 08
    • Tamara Cubas

    Multitud
  • July 06 / July 07
    • Francesca Grilli

    Gold – rising version
  • July 06
    • Bleedingblackwood

    concert
  • July 06 / July 07 / July 08 / July 09 / July 10 / July 11 / July 12 / July 13 / July 14 / July 15
    • Verso Santarcangelo 50

    Il cantiere del libro – a presentation by ISIA URBINO
  • July 07 / July 08
    • Asia Giannelli

    RH negativo
  • July 07 / July 08 / July 10 / July 11 / July 12
    • Dewey Dell

    I am within
  • July 07 / July 08
    • Panagiota Kallimani

    Arrêt sur image
  • July 07
    • MACAO

    sibylline sibling ceremony / DJ-Set, Imbosco
  • July 07 / July 08 / July 09 / July 11 / July 12 / July 13 / July 14
    • Tania El Khoury

    As Far As My Fingertips Take Me
  • July 07
    • Sissi

    Unravelling vein
  • July 07 / July 08
    • Motus

    CHROMA KEYS
  • July 07
    • Father Murphy

    concert
  • July 07
    • The Birds

    open-air cinema
  • July 06 / July 07
    • Francesca Grilli

    Glow of resistance | video screening
  • July 08
    • UDKD

    a Very Passable Sunday Karaoke / Imbosco
  • July 07 / July 08 / July 13 / July 14
    • MACAO

    Crypto Rituals
  • July 08
    • Trepaneringsritualen

    concert
  • July 08
    • Grizzly Man

    open-air cinema
  • July 08
    • Valmatrek

    The Little Dolomites in the Valmarecchia and the Cresta dei Tausani
  • July 08
    • Verso Santarcangelo 50

    Costruire una storia – talk coordinated by Roberta Ferraresi
  • July 09
    • Let's Revolution! / Teatro Patalò

    a CLOUD
  • July 09
    • non-scuola / Teatro delle Albe

    Pan
  • July 09
    • Sleep Concert

    The Expanding Universe / Imbosco
  • July 09
    • Wash Up

    Eva Geatti + Slander
  • July 09
    • Let the Right One In

    open-air cinema
  • July 10
    • The Good Chance Radio

    DJ-Set, Imbosco
  • July 10 / July 11 / July 12 / July 13 / July 14 / July 15
    • Mallika Taneja

    Be careful (Thoda Dhyaan Se)
  • July 10
    • Spirited Away

    open-air cinema
  • July 10
    • Vespertina + TIR

    concert, Gola
  • July 10
    • Fluxo

    Maura Donohue
  • July 11
    • Matteo Vallicelli

    DJ-Set, Imbosco
  • July 11 / July 12 / July 13 / July 14 / July 15
    • Nana Biluš Abaffy

    105: international society for the creatively maladjusted
  • July 11 / July 12 / July 13 / July 14 / July 15
    • Anna Rispoli / Lotte Lindner&Till Steinbrenner

    Your word in my mouth – Brussels take
  • July 11
    • ParaNorman

    open-air cinema
  • July 11
    • The Jackson Pollock + Mormor

    concert, Gola
  • July 11
    • Fluxo

    Nicola Gunn
  • July 12
    • DANI داني

    Habibi / Al Queer / DJ-Set Imbosco
  • July 12
    • Beasts of the Southern Wild

    open-air cinema
  • July 12
    • BeMyDelay

    concert, Gola
  • July 12
    • Fluxo

    Sonia Brunelli
  • July 13 / July 14 / July 15
    • Chiara Bersani

    Gentle Unicorn
  • July 13 / July 14
    • Deflorian / Tagliarini

    Scavi
  • July 13 / July 14 / July 15
    • Signe Becker / Ingri Fiksdal / Ingvild Langgård

    Night Tripper
  • July 13 / July 14
    • Buhlebezwe Siwani & Chuma Sopotela

    Those Ghels
  • July 13
    • Lady Maru & Valerie Renay

    Witches are Back / Live&DJ-Set, Imbosco
  • July 13 / July 14 / July 15
    • Nicola Gunn

    Piece for Person and Ghetto Blaster
  • July 13 / July 14
    • Motus

    Panorama
  • July 13 / July 14 / July 15
    • Muna Mussie

    Oasi
  • July 13
    • Sequoyah Tiger

    concert
  • July 13
    • Blackfish

    open-air cinema
  • July 13
    • "Se/lo/do/all’/Uomo/Nero" - The Political Anatomy of the Passions

    talk coordinated by Ilenia Caleo
  • July 14 / July 15
    • Ingri Fiksdal

    Diorama for Santarcangelo
  • July 14
    • Cristina Kristal Rizzo

    ikea_site specific Santarcangelo
  • July 14
    • Markus Öhrn

    The Unknown
  • July 14
    • GEGEN

    GEGEN BODIES / DJ-Set, Imbosco
  • July 14
    • FAKA

    concert
  • July 14
    • Alien

    open-air cinema
  • July 14
    • InCommon. La lotta per il teatro.

    Workshop / open get together
  • July 14
    • Troppo sole per Antonioni

    with Deflorian/Tagliarini and Alessandra Dragoni
  • July 14
    • Oasi libro. Coffee ritual around Punteggiatura

    with Muna Mussie, as part of Atlas of Transitions
  • July 15
    • Deep Soulful Sweats

    DJ-Set, Imbosco
  • July 15
    • Jaws

    open-air cinema
  • July 15
    • In.versione Clotinsky

    concert, Gola
  • July 15
    • Valmatrek

    Hike to Montebello Natural Oasis
  • July 15
    • Autobiography: no matter how much they want to listen. I never answer the home phone (...)

    with Cristina Kristal Rizzo, Ilenia Caleo and Stefano Tomassini

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