Se non ora – quando?
Summer Drafts – Dialogues on Transversal Vivacity
When was the first time you started chatting to a perfect stranger? Or a foreigner? Maybe you were in a train carriage, or in a queue at the post office. Or maybe you can’t remember? In today’s cities it’s more and more complicated to find occasions of encounters outside used and usual environments, and the consequences become apparent in the form of less and less adventurous cities. If sociality is the necessary condition for a political life, what does the contemporary hindrance to the encounter tell us?
From the 5th to the 9th of July, Summer Drafts and Lungomare offers a series of talks and presentations.
Schedule
Monday, 05/07/2010, 7 pm
Female migrants and sex work
With: Kim Carrington, Marissa Lobo (Maiz, Linz), Betty / Sexyshock (Bologna)
Tuesday, 06/07/2010, 7 pm
Schizoanalysis-Lab
with: Javier Toret (Barcelona)
Wednesday, 07/07/2010, 7 pm
Art and society: models for new perspectives
with: Elliot Perkins (Ultra-Red, London), Meike Schalk & Erika Mayr (Stockholm, Berlin), Cecilia Stefanelli (Donne Nissà, Bolzano), Simone Bracalente (Volontarius, Bolzano), Patrizia Trincanato (City Council for Cultural Affairs, Bolzano Municipality)
Thursday, 09/07/2010, 7 pm
The right to escape
A lecture by: Sandro Mezzadra (Bologna)
Further information: www.summerdrafts.org
Lungomare
In collaboration with Summer Drafts
Monday, 05/07/2010, 7 pm
With: Kim Carrington, Marissa Lobo (Maiz, Linz), Betty / Sexyshock (Bologna)
Sexyshock is a communication laboratory open to women and a public space for discussion and reflection. Sexyshock is thus a research project, but also a place. A public space where it is possible to come together, archive material and a laboratory on sexuality. It was born within an autonomous space (the squatted Teatro Polivalente in Bologna). Today Sexyshock has its base within the Betty&Books (Via Rialto 23, Bologna), a shop that sells sextoys, books, collectable and designer objects that was born out of the synergy between Sexyshock and the Ibiscus cooperative.
Tuesday, 06/07/2010, 7 pm
Schizoanalysis-Lab
With: Javier Toret (Barcelona)
Javier Toret will propose a workshop dedicated to the schizoanalytic practice created by the theorist and therapist Felix Guattari. Little known in Italy, schizoanalysis has developed in the Seventies as a critical alternative to traditional psychology and psychiatry. Today it represents an important conceptual reference in countries such as Spain, Brazil, Argentina, not only in the area of the “psy” disciplines, but also by inspiring artistic and theoretical practices which explore the body, subjectivity and desire.
Wednesday, 07/07/2010, 7 pm
With: Elliot Perkins (Ultra-Red, London), Meike Schalk & Erika Mayr (Stockholm, Berlin), Cecilia Stefanelli (Donne Nissa, Bolzano), Simone Bracalente (Volontarius, Bolzano), Patrizia Trincanato (Councillor for Culture, the Municipality of Bolzano)
The Swedish landscape architect Meike Schalk and the beekeeper Erika Mayr will build an urban vegetable garden together with Donne Nissà and residents of the Don Bosco district. Not only plants and vegetables are grown in the garden, but also relationships and friendships.
09th July 2010 – Public lecture
Sandro Mezzadra, researcher of post-fordist forms of life and of contemporary migratory phenomena, will talk of migration, impasse, cultural and linguistic translation, and of the “right of escape” of everyone, migrant and non migrant citizens.
10th July 2010 – Seminar
Sandro Mezzadra, in dialogue with the Rete per i diritti dei senza voce (Migrant Network).
An informal discussion to examine the relation between old and new rights, starting from the South Tyrolean context and from the concrete experience of the participants.
Autonomous Province of Bozen/Bolzano-South Tyrol, Culture Departments
What´s on
EXHIBITION :: Binta Diaw :: Collective Practices – A Living Experience of Feeling ListenedAbout Lungomare
Lungomare, a cultural association founded in Bolzano in 2003, was created from the desire and necessity to open a space in which to share differences, experiences, opinions and desires, a space in which to make the link between cultural production and the political and social dimension. Lungomare undertakes projects that investigate and test possible relationships between design, architecture, urban planning, art and theory, the results of which are presented in different formats: public discussions, conferences, publications, exhibitions and interventions in public spaces. All these formats are characterised by the intention to interact with cultural and socio-political processes relating to the region in which Lungomare is located.
Currently Lungomare’s activities focus on long-term residency projects, a format whereby Lungomare invites guests to engage and interact within the context of South Tyrol. Lungomare’s activities are based on three principles: specific attention to the context in which the association’s projects are undertaken, the transdisciplinary approach that distinguishes these projects, and reflection on the role of Lungomare as a cultural institution in connection with the region in which it operates.
Territory
Lungomare is located at the edge of Bolzano, the capital of South Tyrol, and relates to the context in which it operates, attempting to highlight the dynamics of change. Large urbanized areas alternate with broad areas of intensive cultivation and yet others of picturesque landscape, all of which penetrate the centre of the city. The city is surrounded by mountains and this is one of the reasons why the tourism industry has become a driving force in this locality. The demographic structure of the city has been characterized for a long time by the coexistence of two populations, those speaking German and those speaking Italian. However, the social and demographic composition of Alto Adige Südtirol is changing. Migrants, including those from non-European countries are making their way to the area to settle, whilst others, including political refugees, are flowing through the region.