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2020

I was thinking about those who put their heads out the window because the wind is the best way to dry your tears without wasting them.
Riccardo Benassi, Morestalgia

Why are we enchanted, watching nature explode under raindrops, yet can’t get excited about what human beings propose, because this pseudo-collectivism shaken by virus and economic crisis seems dumb and blind to us as if it is our parasite-infested kitten that we are treating with desperate stubbornness? Here is the starting point in telling you all about this Festival: the obstinacy to find remedies, which are not “at all costs”. We know that now it is more important to say NO than to compromise. But it is distance we are declaring war to, which has nothing to do with the social or safety, but sinks directly into the self, into the emotional loneliness that the new bidimensional social life has created in these months and that, drop by drop, continues to be infused even now. We are disturbed by the system’s ability to not allow us to record changes, to not let us sink. We desire quicksand, carnivorous and hostile plants that do not allow us to move on as if nothing had happened, but suck upon us violently to keep us there, in the faded and frightened image of human fragility that we are newly experiencing, of the amplified need for care that bodies (the weak and non-compliant ones all the more) and the planet, demand loudly. But we do not listen.
Maybe it’s just a question of decibel: 108 dB, 200 dB, 400 dB… It’s a lacerated roar that we have to compose, like that of engines under stress “between minimum and maximum rpm” in the performance created by ZAPRUDER for this complex edition of the Festival: a hymn to an eternal ignition that never occurs. The rhetoric of the re-start is not good for anyone: better to stay still in one place and launch signals to sound the alarm around the world! While in the United States the African-American community reclaims an identity ripped tooth and nail away from slavery and segregation and manages to knock down the symbolic statues of colonial oppression, are we miserable white people content to sing the Italian national anthem, drunk and out of tune, hanging from the balcony? It is often said that the important thing to fight obesity is to move, to meander from here to there… Bullshit. To fight obesity, you need the dream, the adrenaline, the anger to want to do something, the passion to take on a project (and this is not meant to be an attack on overweight people, sorry, for there are those who have much excess fat in their minds despite their athletic physique). Tore, therefore, between the crystallised moment and the illusion of a future that carries with it the germs of the present and of our colonial and exploitative past… Now, we are a bit in the odourless shit of science fiction. We’re content with B-grade novels without expecting the absolute Fantastic. And yet, despite the atrocious words we’re writing, our artistic/curatorial head is active and lucid in affirming that perhaps a small glimmer, not fully colonised, has opened, exists, right in this postlockdown period calmed by schizophrenic regulations and so much behavioural chaos. It’s a bit like in Giacomo Cossio’s performance, ControNatura: under the “unnatural” and uniform crust of fluorescent colour that he applies to the vegetation, the internal life of the plants continues and, after a while, emerges and sprouts, erupting into a new “mutant” plant, which will never be the same again… Let’s try to think from this perspective, being together at the Festival, to create new hybrid possibilities – as I had written imagining July 2020 – This emergency edition is etymologically intended as an “act of emergence”. In botany, protuberance of the surface of the stem or leaves and homologous organs, which can originate not only from the epidermis, but also from the underlying tissues, such as the thorns of roses and brambles, or the glandular hairs of some carnivorous plants. What I am looking for, alongside the artists and the large number of volunteers who have joined us (and whom we thank here), is to imagine, provoke, flow together: to recognise the fate and follow it, if it lasts, as Claudia Castellucci writes. This implies also being able to break the concrete of the walls, real and imaginary, as in the title of Mara Oscar Cassiani’s project, inspired by the famous monologue by Bruce Lee, Be water, my friends.

We may have no shape, but we may also have the same shape.
We’ll be different, but we’ll also be equal.
We will be Separated, but we will be united […]
Water can flow, but it can also split.
Be water, my friend.


Enjoy watching and sharing in our far out Festival!

Daniela Nicolò & Enrico Casagrande


Download catalogue

  • July 14 / July 15
    • Davide Enia

    L’Abisso
  • July 15 / July 16
    • Paola Bianchi

    ENERGHEIA [ unplugged ]
  • July 15 / July 16 / July 17 / July 18 / July 19
    • quotidianacom

    Tabù
  • July 15 / July 16
    • Ateliersi

    La mappa del cuore di Lea Melandri
  • July 15 / July 16
    • Masque Teatro

    Luce
  • July 15 / July 16
    • Katia Giuliani

    Pratiche di Contatto Amoroso a Distanza
  • July 15
    • Jooklo Duo

    Opening
  • July 15 / July 16 / July 17
    • Virgilio Sieni

    Quattro lezioni sul corpo politico e la cura della distanza
  • July 15
    • Dany Greggio / Cesare Malfatti / Andrea Alessi

    Plutos feat. Pierpaolo Capovilla – Concert
  • July 15 / July 16 / July 17 / July 18 / July 19
    • El Conde de Torrefiel

    Se respira en el jardín como en un bosque
  • July 15 - 19
    • Sans Soleil

    Visioni rare e non identificate
  • July 15
    • Ruben Camillas

    La storia della musica del futuro – Book launch
  • July 15 - 19
    • USMARADIO / Roberto Paci Dalò

    KIN
  • July 15 - 19
    • MP5

    merda!
  • July 15
    • Nel corso del tempo

    Festivals in times of pandemic – Talk
  • July 15 -19
    • non-scuola / Teatro delle Albe

    Visioni #Radiodramma
  • July 15 - 19
    • Transfert per Kamera

    A project by Filmmaker festival
  • July 16
    • Giacomo Cossio

    ControNatura
  • July 16
    • Come stiamo?

    Talk
  • July 16
    • Houdini Righini

    Concert
  • July 16
    • unoauno

    Concert
  • July 16 - 17
    • Let's Revolution! / Teatro Patalò

    Servizio di Pubblico Disordine
  • July 16 / July 17
    • ZimmerFrei

    Family Affair | Santarcangelo
  • July 17 / July 18
    • Alessandro Berti

    Black Dick
  • July 17
    • Claudia Castellucci / Societas

    Il Trattamento delle Onde
  • July 17 / July 18 / July 19
    • Fanny & Alexander

    I sommersi e i salvati
  • July 17 / July 18
    • Benjamin Kahn

    Sorry, But I Feel Slightly Disidentified…
  • July 17 / July 18
    • Giorgina Pi / BLUEMOTION

    Tiresias
  • July 17
    • Solaris

    Concert
  • July 17
    • Sunday Morning

    Concert
  • July 17 / July 18 / July 19
    • Le Notti

    ROMEO calling GIULIETTA
  • July 17
    • Together Apart

    Talk
  • July 18
    • Moder

    Concert
  • July 18
    • So Beast

    Concert
  • July 18
    • ZAPRUDER

    Anubi III
  • July 18
    • Digitale Reale

    Talk
  • July 18 / July 19
    • Sara Leghissa / Strasse

    Fake Uniforms – public lecture
  • July 19
    • Angela Baraldi / Giorgio Canali / Steve Dal Col

    Love Tore Us Apart – Concert
  • July 19
    • Transfert per Kamera

    Theatre, cinema, television – Talk
  • July 19
    • Mara Oscar Cassiani

    Be water, my friends
  • July 19
    • Motus

    MDLSX

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