luogoComune # 2
sonnoComune
This new project marks a line of continuity with the
project luogoComune, started by anton roca and whose beginning
coincided with that of the third millennium, and which led to an exhibition at
the Galleria Comunale in
Other stages in this path of reflection were proposed:
- in
- at the UfaFabrik International Culture Centre in Berlin where the project was
hosted on two further occasions: as part of the event, “Berlin Netdays”, in
November 2001, and at the Res Artis world conference in the month of September
2005.
The LuogoComune project is articulated around a
collective reflection, an investigation, on the modification of the social
order in the territory of Cesena, seen as a mirror of the Italian situation,
and while observing the new European social fabric that is under formation.
(See: http://www.arteco.org/antonroca/htm/deposito/luogoComune/lC1.htm)
The focus of interest is multiculturalism seen as a de
facto reality, rather than a chimera: we live in a territory which is
multicultural: our town, our country,
While LuogoComune # 2 is, on the one hand, a
continuation of the previous project (see luogoComune on
www.arteco.org/antonroca), on the other, it is part of a series of planned
stages foreseen as a long-range itinerant process which is open and transversal
to all age groups and nationalities that are today present in the territory,
mainly from Cesena were we live, but it is also our intention to open it to any
one who will be interested from everywhere we could reach.
One of the aims is to identify a new luogoComune for
all of the cultures and, at the same time, to rise up a strategic through which
it will be possible to join a “luogoComune” way of working together between all
participants.
“luogoComune” is understood
as being the places and/or spaces into which, by reasons inherent in its very
nature, all diversities may converge, with no distortion whatsoever, but rather
as an expression of an “ancestral” normality that, for this reason, is common
to all cultures.
The element which is the fulcrum and,
at the same time, the space for this reflection, is the bed.
The bed as a luogoComune, in that it is:
The place for sleeping (rest), a need that is first of all functional, but also
the place where our dreams occur and, therefore, the place for our personal
imaginings.
The place for love and reproduction. Thus for birth.
The place for sickness and finally, for death.
But also the place of intimacy and to which we let our
unconscious being.
Our entire existential cycle thus finds its space in
the bed, which serves as a space-projection of what is real. Almost
an alter ego of our existential reality.
Due to the particular logic by which the bed is proposed
within this project, it is also a metaphor for territory. In this way, the
contributions from life and past experiences which have been donated,
will bring into focus the way in which, through inhabiting it, we occupy the
territory.
THE PROJECT STEPS
1.
Period: October 2006 / March 2007
For the first step the participation is open only to artists. The aim is to
create a collective discussion and reflection group in order to rise up a
collective work. Not a project for a collective exhibition, but to put our
personal knowledge, our single languages into a common space and work in
collaboration with other artists on the same path.
We will communicate through a “hyperblog”, which will
be ready at the end of February and hosted on the artéco site. This blog is
based on the model of the Francesco Michi’s “Connected Memories” project (you
can visit it at www.aefb.org ).
The first step will take place at the Centro Diurno di
San Mauro (San Mauro Day Centre), kindly offered by the
Address: via Giardino di San Mauro (corner of Via San Miniato) in
Cesena (FC) Italy.
Access should be arranged directly with the artist
himself by telephone:
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Or by e-mail: roca@arteco.org
I propose three possible ways of participating until
March 2007:
By sending your contribute via the internet to the above
address.
You are kindly requested to indicate as the subject: contribution for luogoComune2.
By sending any kind of object through traditional post
to:
Mental Permanent Factory of anton roca
Via G. Romagnoli, 127
47023 Cesena FC Italy
By participating directly in the project
on the premises.
In this case we would ask you to make arrangements for your intervention on
Fridays from
February 2007
Friday 9th and Saturday 10th
Friday 23rd and Saturday 24th
March 2007
Friday 9th and Saturday 10th
Friday 23rd and Saturday 24th
2.
Period: One year starting in April – May 2007
The procedure is that of an itinerant process with a
minimum duration of twelve months. During this period of time we will open
and show to the public the results raised up by the work group, one weekend
a month, for twelve openings.
These twelve steps will be the final result, which will
be documented by video recording, photo and also try to publish a book related
to that experimental experience. For sure an e-book will be published at the
end of the whole process.
The logic of the path lies in participation by means
of a gift. So, during this year we will invite also the inhabitants of the
territory: anyone may approach the space where the work is under construction,
and become a bearer of meaning through their own contribution of experience,
of reflection, or simply by donating an object, any element whatsoever that
is important to them.
Everything that will be collected will become the “body”,
an integral part of the work in progress installation.
ABOUT
CONTRIBUTES
Any kind of contributions can be accepted: objects, pictures,
video, texts,... Anything that
represents your idea of a bed as a “luogoComune”.
On the first step we ask to focalize
and send reflection arguments to the common discussion and exchange space,
better than proposals concerning finished works. That‘s because we’ll try
to grow up a collective process also for the formal solutions: Installation,
video, sound or any kind of finished works we’ll show during the twelve monthly
openings.
All the contributes will be accepted and, in accord
to the authors and indicating their names, will be introduced into the common
reflection space.
Any contribute you have on your mind, could be realized, in according to our
possibilities, in situ and following your indications. (Even if it will be
not possible to you to travel to
International proposal at the adress:
http://www.resartis.org/index.php?id=42&tx_ttnews[tt_news]=644&tx_ttnews[backPid]=17&cHash=a46693b12e