018
☀ Il giorno della muta
A performance by Alessandro Veneruso, Livia Bertacca
Costumes by Garbage Core
Sound recorded during Spectramina’s (Davide Belinghieri and Riccardo Patrone) live at Posto segreto
They walked silently on the wire that divides the sky from the earth, scrutinizing every crater, every rock, every blade of grass, every drop of water that, ready to melt to the ground, greeted them like an old friend. Their slow, heavy footsteps accompanied the voices of a hundred dancing spirits, which swirled incessantly around their body, waking up things around them, pinching the sleeping seeds and roots, the songs of birds, the breath of the wind, every image that awaited a new shape. Thus was established the light and the dark, the day and the night, the cold winter that puts the beasts to sleep. They decided to rest one day on top of a hill, with the rays of the sun coming down to greet them, resting gently on their back. They called upon their faithful friends inside them, and their tired eyes stared into the distance. They dreamed, they looked for other spaces and other places in things, some corner that their voice had not yet touched. Suddenly another ancient creature, unknown and wonderful, took shape on the horizon, covered with a large cloak that sparkled every time the moon gathered courage to whisper a greeting. Perhaps the silence had suggested that new figure to them, yet everything suddenly seemed to be covered with incomprehensible sounds, smells, words and languages that flew in the air and gave things a new name. Infatuated with the mysterious being, they asked their companions to sing with them. Two large hands began to take shape from the ground, moving between the folds of the earth, moving the stones and the snake boroughs, growing tortuous, among the thorns and tangles that lowered for them to pass. The larger their arms got as they tried to caress the creature the more it retreated, leaving a long golden trail in its place. They soon realized that they could never reach that strange creature. Meanwhile the wind was getting stronger, shaking the trees and the surface of the rivers, calling him to leave. Desperate, they begged the sun to turn their body into stone, making that place their eternal home. Their eyes closed slowly and big tears began to flow down the hill, digging a long passage between the vines and melon plants that sprouted fast to greet them, until they melted into the long veil that they had never been able to touch. Smiling, in that brief, wet embrace, they fell asleep forever.
017
☀Bradamante Furiosa
by Rosabell Laurenti Sellers
Scenography by Letizia Paternieri, Federica Menegatti, Ponte di Archimede produzioni
The work created according to the Chinese tradition of the shadow theater returns a different history of the Carolingian cycle, according to a feminist and ecumenical perspective, overcoming the contrast between Moors and Christians. In the city of women, Bradamante, a champion of France and a Christian and Marfisa, queen of India and a Muslim, reign together.
016
☀ Amori Nascosti
works by Nelle Gevers, Hayoung Kim, Alessandro Veneruso, Valerio Santarsenio, Anna Brussi, Livia Bertacca, Emanuele Spiga, Amiel Giusti, Federico Lupo, Dave Belinghieri.
photos by Cave Studio - Dario Di Liberti
015
☀ L’arca di Pirra e Deucalione
Performance by Lorenzo Raspanti
Photos Cave Studio - Dario Di Liberti (colored), Rocco Trevis Merlo (b/n)
In the story of Apollodorus, Zeus had decided to destroy the human race with a great flood because he saw it now corrupt and brutalized. Deucalione learned about it from his father Prometheus, who advised him to build an ark on which to put himself and his wife in safety. Deucalion fabricated the ark on which they climbed and Zeus submerged the Hellas with the flood to eliminate the "bronze lineage". After nine days and nine nights of storm, Deucalione and Pirra landed on Mount Parnassus. Then Zeus sent Hermes to them to fulfill their wish. Deucalione asked to give birth to a new generation on Earth. Zeus ordered the newlyweds to walk, gathering the stones they would find on their way and throwing them behind them; new men and women were freed from those stones.
014
☀ Ti porta via
A performance by Chloé Sassi
Captation by Dario di Liberti
Costumes by Tiziano Canello, Clara Poulard, Chloé Sassi and Garbage Core
Figurants: Tiziano Canello, Leila Rufus, Clara Poulard, Caterina Gail, Federica and Ludovico
Ti porta via is a video-performance created for Ferragosto, the italian ritual for the "hottest day of the year". It corresponds to the Assumption of the virgin and also to a break between the harvest time. In the tradition, on the 15th of august, people living by the coast used to spend the day at the beach before celebrating around a big fire. "Ti porta via" is a free reappropriation of this custom. At the going down of the sun,a living painting is composed in the water. Its characters are suspended in time, as an interstice of non-action, only the eddies are moving around them. As the dusk is coming, a wickerman is burned into the sea, creating an alchimic reaction between water and fire. At the end of the performance, everyone jumps into the sea, closing the ritual.
013
☀ Purtroppo e Per Fortuna
Narrative: Leonardo Ruvolo
Sound: Gabriele De Giovanni, Fabio Favara, Arottenbit
Video: Cave Studio - Dario Di Liberti
Works and costumes: Lucio Maggio, Anna Brussi, Emajons, Alessandro Veneruso, Livia Bertacca, Valerio Santarsenio, Amiel Giusti, Garbage Core,Tiziano Canello, Chloè Sassi, Francesca Maciocia, Federica Carenini, Nelle Gevers, Hayoung Kim
What is a sacrifice? What is a party? It is the extremes that meet, the sun and the moon, unfortunately and fortunately. In the last two years Alcamo has been the laboratory of a community of artists, their home, their refuge away from metropolitan anxiety. Each time they return it is a sacrifice and at the same time a celebration. In the last month we have once again, for the last time, as if it were the first, experienced living together; of what we do and what we produce. In the immediate relationship with nature, matter and technology we have rediscovered and brought out primitive rituals: the sounds and signs of the community. Our harmony is made of tribal rhythms and magic formulas.
012
☀ Vegetable garden and kitchen
curated by Francesco Stabile
produced by Green Code
"There is no spiritual life that is not directly influenced by nutrition. Nutrition totally alters humanity's psychosocial behavior. Humanity is not well today, because what it eats is not healthy. Francesco made this quote by Jairo Restrepo, founder of the permaculture project La Mierda de Vaca his own. An approach to the culinary and gastronomic practices of the Mediterranean area, rediscovering the values of the local peasant culture.
011
☀ Terracotta
by Emajons and Anna Brussi
We were naked and we made our clothes. We wanted to read, so we made our books. We were hungry, so we cultivated the soil. We needed furniture, so we baked the clay. Then someone said this is art, so we broke almost all of them. We collected some of them and we made them unique.
010
☀ Terracruda and concrete
curated by Leonardo Ruvolo
with Emajons, Anna Brussi, Amiel Giusti, Matteo Lombardo, Giovanni Bozzoli, Mauro Pirrone and Gabriele De Giovanni
“When asked if I am a curator, I reply that I like to think of myself more as a bricklayer by quoting Ludovico Corrao. For years now, I have been investigating my proximity. If the landscape suggests the strategy itself, the material implies a specific technology. We are what we eat, of course, but we are also what we do and how we do it. This attitude is what I call magic." A guided route, from the extraction of native natural earth clay to its use as a building material, to create infrastructures such as walls, terraces, flowerbeds and benches with mixtures in terracruda. But also a fresco of concrete building techniques from rural and indigenous people. Trying to put together organic and inorganic life, humans and non-humans relations.
009
☀ Holotropic breathing
curated by Tiziano Canello
After reaching a place, natural and open, the group who decided to participate in the circular breathing session expressed itself, each bringing her/his own physical and emotional state. In this way the field was naturally delimited: a flat space open on a vast panorama, precisely in the oriented naturalistic reserve Bosco D’Alcamo.
Only an anti-fire guardian shared it with us from the top of the San Nicola tower. In the first session this boundary materialized in the burgundy red banner METAMORFOSI E UNIONE (metamorphosis and union), whose long fabric protected with its arc-shape the breathers.
Prayer, laughter, rebellion, exploration of consciousness, outburst, crying and exploration of ecstasy: these processes happened at the same time of a fire that lit flat and dusk.
The therapeutic rite was de-territorialized. And not to be re-territorialized in the fields of art or psychology, but rather dragging them towards the districts of a-significant density: letting the subjects explore beyond ordinary consciousness.
008
☀ Screen Print
curated by Federico Lupo
produced by Tomo
We have been trying to do things together with Federico since years now and we always had a lot of fun. For this time, we will experiment on screen printing fabrics taking in consideration the history of the technology and contemporary adaptations. The fabrics we are going to screenprint would be previously part of the set up of the ouvre we would install on the dunes and then re-adapted to the set up for the Museum.
007
☀ Natural Soaps
curated by Selene Coppola
Produced by Green Code Farm
“My concept is that we will do it with what we have”. This is what Selene Coppola, alcamese farmer and engineer working in France, said when we asked her what we need to make soaps. Together we will experience two techniques to produce natural soaps, starting from what we found home.
006
☀ Spatialisation-narration
curated by Vittoria De Franchis
photos by Rocco Trevis Merlo (first gallery)
Cave Studio - Dario Di Liberti (second gallery)
An invitation to carve a space that is temporary and modular. An editorial architecture of the future in which to dismantle identification generated from static space interactions. Words acquire a spatial meaning, the expansion of an O becomes a porthole, on the other side the landscape is ever changing and so we do. An exercise of imagination and mythical adaptation. An invitation to continuously redesign the filaments of our actions, feelings and thoughts. A wall transforming into a shelter, a bed, a page. Spatialization Narration is a series of workshops and temporary site-installations curated by Vittoria de Franchis.
005
☀ Canes architectures
curated by Lorenzo Raspanti
produced by in collaboration INSA, Istituto Nazionale Sostenibile Architettura
Starting from the hoarding of Posto Segreto’s surrounding canes, we are going to project and then build collectively a work of art that will be set up both on the Alcamo Marina dunes and at Piazzetta Vespri in Alcamo. Lorenzo Raspanti, alcamese architect, will guide the temporary community in the realization of the collective ouvre, preserving the traditional knowledge of this material.
004
☀ De School Summer
community workshop program
curated by Leonardo Ruvolo, Anna Brussi, Giovanni Bozzoli and Francesco Stabile
There is no way we can restore a romantic concept of nature, in which we coexist happily and forever together with non-humans. Humankind is the history of dealing with unconsidered consequences. We are hosts and parasites at the same time, it’s just a matter of perspective. Art and technology are this attempt of dealing with unconsidered consequences in a creative way. We offered space-time to experiment arts and technology without the anxiety of producing and consuming. For this we floated as specters trying our-self how to do things well together.
Photos by Otto
003
☀ Mondonero
with Reptilian Expo, Arottenbit, Dub Wild, Hanair Almono
002
Tomasz Skibicki - rópę
virtual residency
A rope is useful. As easy and quick it holds things together, as easy and quick it can be made by yourself. It doesn't require any special skill, it doesn't require any special tool and it doesn't require any unusual material that you're unlikely to find
.
To make a rope by hand the only thing you need, is to find grass or any other fibrous plant material. Start your rope with two evenly thick strands. Lay the ends of the bundle of grass on top of each other like an X and Y axis, knot them together.
.
From here on it’s just simply a case of repeating the process of twisting in the same direction. This motion causes the two strands to wrap around one another, until eventually one of the strands will start to get thinner. Every time a strand starts to thin out you add another piece of grass.
.
You decide the length you need and when you are done just tie a double knot at the end. This is how you make a rope.
The Hoarder-Gatherer is a protocol for journeys of discovery. It is a manual for gathering signs, objects and stories that has developed over the past two years
tęxt + imągę @skiibiickii vóićę @yabzofile
do we desire shiny objects because of an evolutionary quest for hydration?
tęxt & imągę @skiibiickii vóićę @yabzofile
001
Matilde&Marcos
Residency and documents
1
The A29 stabs Sicily from Mazara del Vallo to Palermo; years of concrete as the density of the rice that fills the arancina. On the day of the Feast of the Madonna, every year on June 21, Alcamo's people travel the 9km that separate Alcamo from Alcamo Marina, to move from houses in the village to their summer residences.Traditionally they went down to harvest wheat, from the 1970s they come down to occupy the houses they leave in winter; all together they come down to chase away the ghosts that the house host during the rest of the year. To get to Alcamo Marina they have to pass under the bridge that stabs Sicily, at that moment, for a second, they fear, secretly and without expressing it, that the reinforced concrete will collapse over their heads together with the weight of the rice that fill the arancina. In that second there is that fear that is always present but never explicit, in this second a breach is opened. It is a flash that has the power to illuminate reality. It is this second that we want to expand, inhabiting the space under the bridge to shed light on self-deception
2
Before COVID-19 definitively blocked our country, together with Marcos Nacar we went to Posto Segreto, guests of the Landescape collective for two wonderful weeks of residency. Walking, crossing landscapes, moving without a destination were our practices in sicilian landscape. Hard to imagine now. During our journeys we often found ourselves under the bridge of the A29, where one evening we decided to end our journey. Our desire was to inhabit the space all together, gather under the bridge and stay. We know well how at the moment that desire, along with many others, goes a bit put aside, to take it up again later when being together will no longer be dangerous for anyone, when we leave our homes to find each other and walk again. Then the virus will be defeated and it will be more joyful to rediscover ourselves as a group, to return together to inhabit the spaces that fear has made even more desolating, such as the bridge of the A29 that welcomed us one night and that will wait for us in the coming months. Now that we are isolated, there is more than ever the need to build communities and establish links with the earth, with time and with people. See you soon under the bridge.
018
☀ Il giorno della muta
A performance by Alessandro Veneruso, Livia Bertacca
Costumes by Garbage Core
Sound recorded during Spectramina’s (Davide Belinghieri and Riccardo Patrone) live at Posto segreto
They walked silently on the wire that divides the sky from the earth, scrutinizing every crater, every rock, every blade of grass, every drop of water that, ready to melt to the ground, greeted them like an old friend. Their slow, heavy footsteps accompanied the voices of a hundred dancing spirits, which swirled incessantly around their body, waking up things around them, pinching the sleeping seeds and roots, the songs of birds, the breath of the wind, every image that awaited a new shape. Thus was established the light and the dark, the day and the night, the cold winter that puts the beasts to sleep. They decided to rest one day on top of a hill, with the rays of the sun coming down to greet them, resting gently on their back. They called upon their faithful friends inside them, and their tired eyes stared into the distance. They dreamed, they looked for other spaces and other places in things, some corner that their voice had not yet touched. Suddenly another ancient creature, unknown and wonderful, took shape on the horizon, covered with a large cloak that sparkled every time the moon gathered courage to whisper a greeting. Perhaps the silence had suggested that new figure to them, yet everything suddenly seemed to be covered with incomprehensible sounds, smells, words and languages that flew in the air and gave things a new name. Infatuated with the mysterious being, they asked their companions to sing with them. Two large hands began to take shape from the ground, moving between the folds of the earth, moving the stones and the snake boroughs, growing tortuous, among the thorns and tangles that lowered for them to pass. The larger their arms got as they tried to caress the creature the more it retreated, leaving a long golden trail in its place. They soon realized that they could never reach that strange creature. Meanwhile the wind was getting stronger, shaking the trees and the surface of the rivers, calling him to leave. Desperate, they begged the sun to turn their body into stone, making that place their eternal home. Their eyes closed slowly and big tears began to flow down the hill, digging a long passage between the vines and melon plants that sprouted fast to greet them, until they melted into the long veil that they had never been able to touch. Smiling, in that brief, wet embrace, they fell asleep forever.
017
☀Bradamante Furiosa
by Rosabell Laurenti Sellers
Scenography by Letizia Paternieri, Federica Menegatti, Ponte di Archimede produzioni
The work created according to the Chinese tradition of the shadow theater returns a different history of the Carolingian cycle, according to a feminist and ecumenical perspective, overcoming the contrast between Moors and Christians. In the city of women, Bradamante, a champion of France and a Christian and Marfisa, queen of India and a Muslim, reign together.
016
☀ Amori Nascosti
works by Nelle Gevers, Hayoung Kim, Alessandro Veneruso, Valerio Santarsenio, Anna Brussi, Livia Bertacca, Emanuele Spiga, Amiel Giusti, Federico Lupo, Dave Belinghieri.
photos by Cave Studio - Dario Di Liberti
015
☀ L’arca di Pirra e Deucalione
Performance by Lorenzo Raspanti
Photos Cave Studio - Dario Di Liberti (colored), Rocco Trevis Merlo (b/n)
In the story of Apollodorus, Zeus had decided to destroy the human race with a great flood because he saw it now corrupt and brutalized. Deucalione learned about it from his father Prometheus, who advised him to build an ark on which to put himself and his wife in safety. Deucalion fabricated the ark on which they climbed and Zeus submerged the Hellas with the flood to eliminate the "bronze lineage". After nine days and nine nights of storm, Deucalione and Pirra landed on Mount Parnassus. Then Zeus sent Hermes to them to fulfill their wish. Deucalione asked to give birth to a new generation on Earth. Zeus ordered the newlyweds to walk, gathering the stones they would find on their way and throwing them behind them; new men and women were freed from those stones.
014
☀ Ti porta via
A performance by Chloé Sassi
Captation by Dario di Liberti
Costumes by Tiziano Canello, Clara Poulard, Chloé Sassi and Garbage Core
Figurants: Tiziano Canello, Leila Rufus, Clara Poulard, Caterina Gail, Federica and Ludovico
Ti porta via is a video-performance created for Ferragosto, the italian ritual for the "hottest day of the year". It corresponds to the Assumption of the virgin and also to a break between the harvest time. In the tradition, on the 15th of august, people living by the coast used to spend the day at the beach before celebrating around a big fire. "Ti porta via" is a free reappropriation of this custom. At the going down of the sun,a living painting is composed in the water. Its characters are suspended in time, as an interstice of non-action, only the eddies are moving around them. As the dusk is coming, a wickerman is burned into the sea, creating an alchimic reaction between water and fire. At the end of the performance, everyone jumps into the sea, closing the ritual.
013
☀ Purtroppo e Per Fortuna
Narrative: Leonardo Ruvolo
Sound: Gabriele De Giovanni, Fabio Favara, Arottenbit
Video: Cave Studio - Dario Di Liberti
Works and costumes: Lucio Maggio, Anna Brussi, Emajons, Alessandro Veneruso, Livia Bertacca, Valerio Santarsenio, Amiel Giusti, Garbage Core,Tiziano Canello, Chloè Sassi, Francesca Maciocia, Federica Carenini, Nelle Gevers, Hayoung Kim
What is a sacrifice? What is a party? It is the extremes that meet, the sun and the moon, unfortunately and fortunately. In the last two years Alcamo has been the laboratory of a community of artists, their home, their refuge away from metropolitan anxiety. Each time they return it is a sacrifice and at the same time a celebration. In the last month we have once again, for the last time, as if it were the first, experienced living together; of what we do and what we produce. In the immediate relationship with nature, matter and technology we have rediscovered and brought out primitive rituals: the sounds and signs of the community. Our harmony is made of tribal rhythms and magic formulas.
012
☀ Vegetable garden and kitchen
curated by Francesco Stabile
produced by Green Code
"There is no spiritual life that is not directly influenced by nutrition. Nutrition totally alters humanity's psychosocial behavior. Humanity is not well today, because what it eats is not healthy. Francesco made this quote by Jairo Restrepo, founder of the permaculture project La Mierda de Vaca his own. An approach to the culinary and gastronomic practices of the Mediterranean area, rediscovering the values of the local peasant culture.
011
☀ Terracotta
by Emajons and Anna Brussi
We were naked and we made our clothes. We wanted to read, so we made our books. We were hungry, so we cultivated the soil. We needed furniture, so we baked the clay. Then someone said this is art, so we broke almost all of them. We collected some of them and we made them unique.
010
☀ Terracruda and concrete
curated by Leonardo Ruvolo
with Emajons, Anna Brussi, Amiel Giusti, Matteo Lombardo, Giovanni Bozzoli, Mauro Pirrone and Gabriele De Giovanni
“When asked if I am a curator, I reply that I like to think of myself more as a bricklayer by quoting Ludovico Corrao. For years now, I have been investigating my proximity. If the landscape suggests the strategy itself, the material implies a specific technology. We are what we eat, of course, but we are also what we do and how we do it. This attitude is what I call magic." A guided route, from the extraction of native natural earth clay to its use as a building material, to create infrastructures such as walls, terraces, flowerbeds and benches with mixtures in terracruda. But also a fresco of concrete building techniques from rural and indigenous people. Trying to put together organic and inorganic life, humans and non-humans relations.
009
☀ Holotropic breathing
curated by Tiziano Canello
After reaching a place, natural and open, the group who decided to participate in the circular breathing session expressed itself, each bringing her/his own physical and emotional state. In this way the field was naturally delimited: a flat space open on a vast panorama, precisely in the oriented naturalistic reserve Bosco D’Alcamo.
Only an anti-fire guardian shared it with us from the top of the San Nicola tower. In the first session this boundary materialized in the burgundy red banner METAMORFOSI E UNIONE (metamorphosis and union), whose long fabric protected with its arc-shape the breathers.
Prayer, laughter, rebellion, exploration of consciousness, outburst, crying and exploration of ecstasy: these processes happened at the same time of a fire that lit flat and dusk.
The therapeutic rite was de-territorialized. And not to be re-territorialized in the fields of art or psychology, but rather dragging them towards the districts of a-significant density: letting the subjects explore beyond ordinary consciousness.
008
☀ Screen Print
curated by Federico Lupo
produced by Tomo
We have been trying to do things together with Federico since years now and we always had a lot of fun. For this time, we will experiment on screen printing fabrics taking in consideration the history of the technology and contemporary adaptations. The fabrics we are going to screenprint would be previously part of the set up of the ouvre we would install on the dunes and then re-adapted to the set up for the Museum.
007
☀ Natural Soaps
curated by Selene Coppola
Produced by Green Code Farm
“My concept is that we will do it with what we have”. This is what Selene Coppola, alcamese farmer and engineer working in France, said when we asked her what we need to make soaps. Together we will experience two techniques to produce natural soaps, starting from what we found home.
006
☀ Spatialisation-narration
curated by Vittoria De Franchis
photos by Rocco Trevis Merlo (first gallery)
Cave Studio - Dario Di Liberti (second gallery)
An invitation to carve a space that is temporary and modular. An editorial architecture of the future in which to dismantle identification generated from static space interactions. Words acquire a spatial meaning, the expansion of an O becomes a porthole, on the other side the landscape is ever changing and so we do. An exercise of imagination and mythical adaptation. An invitation to continuously redesign the filaments of our actions, feelings and thoughts. A wall transforming into a shelter, a bed, a page. Spatialization Narration is a series of workshops and temporary site-installations curated by Vittoria de Franchis.
005
☀ Canes architectures
curated by Lorenzo Raspanti
produced by in collaboration INSA, Istituto Nazionale Sostenibile Architettura
Starting from the hoarding of Posto Segreto’s surrounding canes, we are going to project and then build collectively a work of art that will be set up both on the Alcamo Marina dunes and at Piazzetta Vespri in Alcamo. Lorenzo Raspanti, alcamese architect, will guide the temporary community in the realization of the collective ouvre, preserving the traditional knowledge of this material.
004
☀ De School Summer
community workshop program
curated by Leonardo Ruvolo, Anna Brussi, Giovanni Bozzoli and Francesco Stabile
There is no way we can restore a romantic concept of nature, in which we coexist happily and forever together with non-humans. Humankind is the history of dealing with unconsidered consequences. We are hosts and parasites at the same time, it’s just a matter of perspective. Art and technology are this attempt of dealing with unconsidered consequences in a creative way. We offered space-time to experiment arts and technology without the anxiety of producing and consuming. For this we floated as specters trying our-self how to do things well together.
Photos by Otto
003
☀ Mondonero
with Reptilian Expo, Arottenbit, Dub Wild, Hanair Almono
002
Tomasz Skibicki - rópę
virtual residency
A rope is useful. As easy and quick it holds things together, as easy and quick it can be made by yourself. It doesn't require any special skill, it doesn't require any special tool and it doesn't require any unusual material that you're unlikely to find
.
To make a rope by hand the only thing you need, is to find grass or any other fibrous plant material. Start your rope with two evenly thick strands. Lay the ends of the bundle of grass on top of each other like an X and Y axis, knot them together.
.
From here on it’s just simply a case of repeating the process of twisting in the same direction. This motion causes the two strands to wrap around one another, until eventually one of the strands will start to get thinner. Every time a strand starts to thin out you add another piece of grass.
.
You decide the length you need and when you are done just tie a double knot at the end. This is how you make a rope.
The Hoarder-Gatherer is a protocol for journeys of discovery. It is a manual for gathering signs, objects and stories that has developed over the past two years
tęxt + imągę @skiibiickii vóićę @yabzofile
do we desire shiny objects because of an evolutionary quest for hydration?
tęxt & imągę @skiibiickii vóićę @yabzofile
001
Matilde&Marcos
Residency and documents
1
The A29 stabs Sicily from Mazara del Vallo to Palermo; years of concrete as the density of the rice that fills the arancina. On the day of the Feast of the Madonna, every year on June 21, Alcamo's people travel the 9km that separate Alcamo from Alcamo Marina, to move from houses in the village to their summer residences.Traditionally they went down to harvest wheat, from the 1970s they come down to occupy the houses they leave in winter; all together they come down to chase away the ghosts that the house host during the rest of the year. To get to Alcamo Marina they have to pass under the bridge that stabs Sicily, at that moment, for a second, they fear, secretly and without expressing it, that the reinforced concrete will collapse over their heads together with the weight of the rice that fill the arancina. In that second there is that fear that is always present but never explicit, in this second a breach is opened. It is a flash that has the power to illuminate reality. It is this second that we want to expand, inhabiting the space under the bridge to shed light on self-deception
2
Before COVID-19 definitively blocked our country, together with Marcos Nacar we went to Posto Segreto, guests of the Landescape collective for two wonderful weeks of residency. Walking, crossing landscapes, moving without a destination were our practices in sicilian landscape. Hard to imagine now. During our journeys we often found ourselves under the bridge of the A29, where one evening we decided to end our journey. Our desire was to inhabit the space all together, gather under the bridge and stay. We know well how at the moment that desire, along with many others, goes a bit put aside, to take it up again later when being together will no longer be dangerous for anyone, when we leave our homes to find each other and walk again. Then the virus will be defeated and it will be more joyful to rediscover ourselves as a group, to return together to inhabit the spaces that fear has made even more desolating, such as the bridge of the A29 that welcomed us one night and that will wait for us in the coming months. Now that we are isolated, there is more than ever the need to build communities and establish links with the earth, with time and with people. See you soon under the bridge.