RESEARCH CAMPING | Floating Bodies
Participating artists Erika Di Crescenzo, Gaia Ginevra Giorgi, Aurelio Di Virgilio, Andrea D’Arsiè, Silvia Mai, Hanna Gillgren, Lucio Guarinoni/Simone Basani, Giovanfrancesco Giannini, Michela Depetris, Jovana Malinaric, Ilaria Quaglia, Fabritia D’Intino, Gloria Frigerio, Teodora Grano, Nicolò Giorgini/Marco Casagrande, Dafne Giannikopoulou, TAC Collective – TastierACorpi, Maria Luisa Usai
With the participation of Silvia Bottiroli
Conception and realization of the space Associazione Bastione
Organization and curatorial process Lavanderia a Vapore and Workspace Ricerca X
With the support of Fondazione Compagnia di San Paolo
How to navigate the unknown and transformation through art practices? How to learn from water the possibility of being lulled into new mixtures? How to get in touch with a submerged world?
For its third edition, Research Camping transforms the spaces of the nave of Lavanderia a Vapore, from the foyer to the theater, into hybrid environments between fiction and reality, which become devices for the exchange and dissemination of artistic research processes. In a world in transition that seeks new reading tools and answers, artistic research can offer fertile ground for imagining new, possible or forgotten ways of making the world.
The bay is the dimension evoked by this third edition centered on the fluidity of bodies, made of flesh and water, increasingly viscous and elusive, bodies that inhabit a landscape in which they coexist between earth and liquidity, in a time in which certainty and illusion are confused.
During Research Camping, the research, from an intimate space behind closed doors, becomes an imaginative plaza for new politics, a middle ground that welcomes creations still in the making, and offers asylum to alternative thoughts and imaginaries to the muscular rhetoric and harried time of efficiency and production.
