2021-08-25
2021-08-25
The first edition of Habitat came to a gentle
end. I say “gentle” because it silently turned off
with mind and body energy. For one time, I didn’t
have any melancholic feelings. I just felt like
waking up after a month-long dream, with streams
of images bouncing all around my brain,
which eventually served as refreshing water for
my thoughts, tastings of sparkling answers I
was seeking for.
The idea of establishing here looked closer than
ever, bringing a lot of excitement and questions
at the same time.
Certainly, permanent actions require the settlement of new, grounding questions which led to the propagation of temporary living attempts across stable, long trajectories. Once the possibility to rent Cà de Monti for a whole year became tangible, I start questioning myself:
What kind of infrastructures a residency and collective workshop
would need in order to facilitate the sharing of processes and knowledge?
And how they could be used to re-think the future we live in?
Could a constellation of smaller eco-systems be the way to decentralize
agency, recalibrating our lives based on urgent and real needs?
What could we learn from smaller realities such as rural villages in
order to build new, modern and almost self-reliant communities?
How the circulation of knowledge, processes and results achieved during
the residency could be turned into concrete actions which could help both the local community and the artists’ development?
How could local heritage and traditions provide us with a set of tools
to better understand the present?
Then, how publishing practices can be involved to enhance and amplify
Ultra-territorial* narrations? How to build a participative archive, toward a new collective memory?
And how to create new, vernacular imaginaries?
I would not explicitly answer these questions. The questions, as well as
the answers, must be open, editable and then generative. The thesis
aims not to provide solutions, but manifestations of a daily, individual
and collective journey to their resolutions.
