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GIARDINO DELLA PACE

Home is a missing tooth the tongue reaches for hardness but falls into absence

Land art installation, corn, 2024

#Rethinking

A project by Cristina Calderoni, Chiara Campanile, Paula Flores, Denise Parizek

Loredana Manfrè, MicroCollection, Susanna Ravelli, Laure Keyrouz
online: Delilah Gutman, Iryna Shuvalova

artistic residency at Laure Keyrouz art Gallery
Via del Solstizio, 62, 31040 Nervesa della Battaglia (TV)
Italy
from 14th to 17th Septermper, 2024

Performative Installation, Exhibition, Talk, Movie Screening, Poetry,
Music, Symposium hosted by Laure Keyrouz Arts Gallery
https://luoghidelbelsentire.it/luoghi/giardino_della_pace/giardino_della_pace.html

Based on the materials and contents of the artistic projects by Cristina Calderoni, Chiara Campanile and Paula Flores, I will cook Massaman curry with peanuts and cozze in wine sauce, and in doing so I will go into the history of the ingredients, their mode of action and significance in our time of massive climate change.
The topics I am working with are based on our research on roots, colonialism, sustainability, togetherness and feminism, we will create a ritual in the garden. In her ‘History of a Counter Monument’, Patrizia Violi describes the idea of taking existing places/monuments out of their context and reinterpreting and redesigning them through collective intervention. How can we give a living meaning to something that reminds us of  death?
From the Latin ager (field, territory, village, valley…), agriculture is not only the art of cultivating fields, but our culture itself. In the local dimension, the fabric it weaves is linked to dialects, festivals, myths, the community and the surrounding nature, forming the foundations that support the rest of the complexity from the earliest social and political activity. The promotion of agri-cultural events is not only a tool for the development of conscious tourism, but also a driving force for communities to reconnect with the unique historical roots of the territory they belong to, with traditions that are often fast disappearing, and for the exploration of new practices of connection with the environment. RADICA interweaves agri’cultural initiatives with artistic, educational and recreational events to explore: forms of community and environmental connection, old and new local traditions, supporting practices of marginal areas and emerging small communities, new forms of sustainable tourism. Our aim is to create a new kind of monument, a place of peace and rethinking, independent of state and nation. Based on our research on roots, colonialism, sustainability, togetherness and feminism, we will create a ritual in the garden. In her ‘History of a Counter-Monument’, Patrizia Violi describes the idea of taking existing places/monuments out of their context and reinterpreting and redesigning them through collective intervention. How can we give a living meaning to something that reminds us of death?

In Cristina Calderoni's land art intervention, the artist finds a sense of home within us all. We often lose concentration and wander, but we are on a permanent journey, and the eyes of others are merely a reflection of ourselves.
If we can find a sense of belonging within ourselves, if food has been exchanged and adapted since time immemorial, and if we eat together
and talk to each other, then the borders between cultures will break down and the causes of wars will be minimised. If we work together with young people — generations Z and R — to regenerate the planet; if we manage resources consciously; if we consume in the same way; and if we no longer allow ourselves to be intimidated by those with outdated thought structures, then I see a possibility for a shared future without war, misunderstanding, exploitation and extinction. Let us celebrate life and realise a utopian vision. The lettering was created using corn cobs in the landscape. The cob is a universal medium for this art project.