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17/3/2012

Maria Rebecca Ballestra

Progr Zentrum fur Kulturproduktion, Bern

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Journey into Fragility è un progetto itinerante concepito dall’artista Maria Rebecca Ballestra e ispirato alla “Carta di Arenzano per la Terra e per l’Uomo”.

Le dodici tesi della Carta ispireranno dodici diversi progetti in altrettanti paesi del mondo (febbraio 2012 - gennaio 2013) con l’intento di sviluppare un dialogo attivo sull’ambiente e sul valore del vivere sulla Terra.

La seconda tappa del viaggio avrà luogo in Svizzera dal 18 al 27 marzo 2012, dove Rebecca, riflettendo sulla prima tesi della Carta "il rapporto con la terra comporta anche responsabilità e doveri", mediterà sul ruolo della politica come rappresentante degli interessi di un singolo paese in un mondo ormai interconnesso.

I quesiti posti ruotano attorno ad una problematica centrale: può la politica modificare se stessa al fine di preservare la specie umana e la terra che si ospita?

In collaborazione con Kalart e Progr - Zentrum fur Kulturproduktion (www.progr.ch) è organizzato un fitto programma di incontri, conferenze e workshop con altri artisti, finalizzato alla condivisione di idee e possibili letture del rapporto arte, scienza e ambiente.
Rebecca realizzerà un'opera video in collaborazione con il video-artista Luca Coclide.

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Second step of the project in Bern (Switzerland)

In collaboration with the video artist Luca Coclide

Local Partner: KALART and Progr - Zentrum fur Kulturproduktion (www.progr.ch)

The relationship with our planet involves duties and responsibilities

Can we still consider politics just a system of administration and organisation of society? Can politics still consider itself just the expression of one country or another’s national interests? Faced with such an interconnected world, and with such drastic and global changes (such as population increase, environmental disasters beyond national borders and beyond culture and religion), can we still think of politics with short-sighted vision and confined by its own territorial boundaries?

Or can we imagine a new political approach, able to discuss the interests of man as a species to preserve its continuity and safety? Can we think of global politics so enlightened as to know how to overcome each country’s personal interests in order to reason out and plan a new movement aimed at safeguarding our species and the planet that hosts us? Can politics have a long-term vision? Can politics self-modify to create a new system that goes beyond graphics and economic forecasts, and that considers man as an individual, as an intellectual being capable of thinking, creating, inventing and imagining the best for itself and its fellows?

Since the Swiss Confederation has a long history of neutrality and is frequently involved in peace-building processes around the world, it’s the perfect place to start a discussion about our planet as a common good of the human being. Switzerland is also the home of a large number of international organizations, including the second largest UN office, the Red Cross, etc

The project will involve citizens and people of international institutes, in a video project about the possibility to image a global Political Organisation able to take care of the destiny of the environment and able to plan a long term policy in a global scale to preserve the planet and the resources for the human being.

Programme

19 March | afternoon | Lehrerzimmer, Progr - Zentrum fur Kulturproduktion hall

Presentation of Journey into Fragility

20 March | all day | Stadtgalerie/Progr

Public Conference:

Art and urban requalification;
Site and context specific urban intervention;
Art and community project;
Art and rural development;

21 March | morning | Stadtgalerie

Public Conference:

Art and mobility – the international circuit of art mobility;
Art as a nomadic itinerary;

22 March | morning | Stadtgalerie

Workshop with other artists, dealing with the points:

how to identify and choose an artist’s residence;
how to prepare a dossier and the make an application for an artist’s residence abroad;

23 March | morning | Stadtgalerie

4-day Workshop with artists (max 10): discussion of the Journey into Fragility project, with the aim of creating ideas and of planning possible interpretations of the relationship between art, science and the environment.

Progr _ Zentrum fur Kulturproduktion
Waisenhausplatz 30 - Bern

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