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Ephemeral Arts Connections is an international workshop organized by Stardust* and Elisava.
It’s successful first edition happened in September 2010 in Sicily, check out the results HERE.
The second edition will happen in September 2011 in Sicily, see the details HERE.
Ephemeral
Everything is ephemeral, because everything is subjected to the flow and transformation of the life. Buildings, all forms of artworks, sculptures, paintings, music, theater, movies … The ephemeral is conceived as the link between the contemporary arts. Its transformative performance is related to the transformation of materials, their origins, application, cycle of life, death, recycling … the ephemeral is able to be a new experimental paradigm for sustainable development.
Arts’ connection
The value of the interaction between arts is strongly related to the dialogue between cultures. We do not need selective and rigid categories of arts and of cultures and we want to explore the richness of the combined value of arts and cultures working together. They’ll operate simultaneously, they won’t have limits or boundaries and they’ll cooperate at a new equal culture of making. On the footsteps of Watermill Center Laboratory founded by Bob Wilson, we learn the miraculous developing of global network transcending age, experience, social, religious and cultural backgrounds.
In Sicily
The capitalist model whose center of gravity is in the U.S. and in the northern hemisphere, has generated a resources’ depauperation. A model that has transformed “Europe as a territorial zipper and the Mediterranean area as a simple connector. The crisis we are passing trough is not just economic or productive and social but is, overall, the crisis of a cultural system and of a consequential planned system for the future [...] The challenge in front of us, is to oppose to the mad core of the turbo-capitalism that has produced a flat and always similar architecture and transgenic cities [...] the strength of a responsible and networking planning of the Mediterranean area. […] From South as main centre of the project and from Sicily it radiates a powerful energy of renewal. […] will be entirely involved in the “project for the future” that the Mediterranean communities are willing to accomplish, in a renewed pact between the city and the territory, the environment and the landscape.” (Maurizio Carta, Mediterraneo_Liquid Project) We can build a new development’s model, with new values. Sicily (and South) is taken as the hub of a new art’s development, the nerve center of economic, politic, social and creative growth. It has its roots in a meeting of cultures.
