THE TENDING OF THE OTHERWISE
A project by BJCEM – Biennale des Jeunes Créateurs de l’Europe et de la Méditerranée, curated by Simone Frangi and Alessandro Castiglioni in the frame of Procida Capitale della Cultura 2022
THE TENDING OF THE OTHERWISE
A project by BJCEM – Biennale des Jeunes Créateurs de l’Europe et de la Méditerranée, curated by Simone Frangi and Alessandro Castiglioni in the frame of Procida Capitale della Cultura 2022
Islands are
Places apart
Where Europe is absent
Wrote Auden.
Islands are
From before or
For after humankind
Wrote Deleuze
Stuart McLean, “SEA”
In the exergue to “SEA” – a text with which Stuart McLean returns in 2017 after many years to the poetic space as a place to articulate socio-cultural issues – the anthropologist inscribes a statement that the Korean author Myung Mi Kim made in an interview in 2007: “The work of writing and reading and thinking is the tending of the otherwise”. This idea of taking care of an “otherwise”, of dedicating oneself to alternative possibilities through creative and intellectual work crosses the convictions expressed by McLean in Fictionalizing Anthropology. Encounters and Fabulations at the Edges of the Human (2017), where language and aesthetic, symbolic and material forms are proposed as performative methods to explore new horizons of collective life, which are able to fabulate unprecedented events and complex subjectivities between the human and the non-human.
Taking Myung Mi Kim and Stuart McLean’s suggestions as a starting point, The tending of the otherwise project brings together 25 young artists from the Euro-Mediterranean area whose practices explore new sustainable imaginaries for contemporary life: the challenges of ecology and social inclusion; processes of subjectification in relation to political architectures; the role of urban and environmental innovation in fragile geopolitical contexts and the need for a downshifting in economic and cultural practices, particularly in Mediterranean micro-territories.
Articulated through an exhibition, relational and public space interventions, a performance programme, a film programme, a public programme and series of production residencies in Procida, The tending of the otherwise will ritualize the presence of the works and the artists on the island with live moments of a different nature, cyclically drawing attention to the project.
ARTISTS
[June 16 – September 25, 2022] Exhibition
Ru Kim (Korea-France): Officina Misteri
Adrian Abela (Malta): Officina Misteri
Yesmine Ben Khelil (Tunisia): Officina Misteri
Victor Fotso Nyie (Italy): Cappella sottoportico Terra Murata
Marco Giordano (Italy): Serbatoio Terra Murata
Bianca Hisse (Brasil-Norway) Officina Misteri
Eleni Odysseos (Cyprus): Cappella della Purità
Francis Offman (Italy): Officina Misteri
Virginia Russolo (Italy, Greece): Officina Misteri
Vanja Smiljanić (Serbia – Portugal): Cappella della Purità
Adji Dieye (Italy, Senegal): Spazi di affissione
Binta Diaw (Italy, Senegal): Giardino Vigna
Valentina Karga (Greece): Giardino Casa del Direttore Carcere
Sophie Utikal (Austria-Germany): Palazzo d’Avalos
Michele Seffino (Italy): Giardino Vigna
[June 17-18, 2022] Performance
Selin Davasse (Turkey): Lungomare Chiaiolella (venerdì 17 giugno)
GianMarco Porru (Italy) – Marisilvia Greco (Italy): Casale Vascello (sabato 18 giugno)
[September 23/24, 2022] Cinema Program
Areej Huniti & Eliza Goldox (Jordan-Germany)
Noor Abuarafeh (Palestina – Egypt)
Endi Tupja (Albania)
Enar de Dios Rodríguez (Spain-Austria)
Riccardo Badano & Hanna Rullmann (Italy, Netherlands, UK)
Johanna Bruckner (Austria)
[September 25, 2022] Performance Program
Madison Bycroft (Australia-France): Piscina Albergo La vigna
[June 16/17/18, 2022] Public Program Spiaggia di Ciraccio
First seminar of A Natural Oasis? A Transnational Research Programme seven curators under 35 from Europe and the Mediterranean from Italy, France, Cyprus, Albania, Libano, Marocco, Norway.
In the frame of the official program of