Isola Utopia
Isola Utopia
Fragments and moments for new utopias
Exhibitions, flights, presentations, debates, performances and music,
a project by Isola Art Center,
presented by Creative Olive,
supported by the Comune di San Mauro Cilento, Cooperativa Agricola Nuovo Cilento, Fornace Falcone
5-10 August, 20.00 – 24.00, San Mauro Cilento (Salerno)
Opening 5 August, 20.00
Presentation of the project, 24.7.2014, “Utopia Urbis”, Corte Catalana di Palazzo Pinto, Mercanti street 63, Salerno
Bad Museum, Zanny Begg, Emanuel Balbinot, Kristina Borg, Sarah Giulia Braun, Antonio Brizioli, Paolo Caffoni, Angelo Castucci, Antonio Cipriani, Francesco Citro, Creative Olive Team, Maddalena Fragnito, Edna Gee, Grupo Etcétera, Heinz-Norbert Jocks, Isabell Lorey, Francesco Lomonaco, Gianfranco Marelli, Valentina Montisci, Philippe Nathan, Denis C. Novello & Isola Art’s Club Band, Nikolay Oleynikov, Camilla Pin, Steve Piccolo, Gerald Raunig, Serio Collective (Edith Poirier, Daniele Rossi), Mariette Schiltz, Stefano Taccone, Claudio Tancetti, Bert Theis, Camilla Topuntoli, Nikola Uzunovski, Wei-Ning Yang, Jiang Zhi, Amor Vacui Studio, Laboratorio di Progettazione Ferrara, Ghelostudio Architettura, Project 2.0., the residents of San Mauro Cilento and others...
Press release Program from 5 to 10 August 2014 CreativeOlive 2014
"Only in us does this light still burn, and we are beginning a fantastic journey toward it, toward the implementation of the central concept of utopia. To find it, to find the right thing, for which it is worthy to live, to be organized, and to have time: that is why we go, why we cut new, metaphysically constitutive paths, summon what is not, build into the blue, and build ourselves into the blue, and there seek the true, the real, where the merely factual disappears - incipit vita nova." - Ernst Bloch, The Spirit of Utopia
Utopia! We searched for her continuously, we never met her, but she has always been close to us. When we occupied a former factory in the Isola neighbourhood in Milan and, together with the gardens, we converted it into a new model for a centre for art, philosophy, music, and other activities and events of the district. When we stood up to unscrupulous real estate developers, cynical politicians, turncoat architects and servile journalists. When together with the children of Isola we sang "Il ragazzo di Via Gluck" ("The Boy of Gluck Street") in front of the politicians of the district council, who had listened to us ... without ever understanding. When one night, together with Christoph, we painted his mural Strategic Embellishment created for the news kiosk of Isola. When we threw the seed bombs over the wire fence of a space that was still closed to the neighbourhood ... a space we wanted to open with the name of Isola Pepe Verde. When together with Macao we vacated the Galfa Tower in Milan and there we hung the banner ... "One could even imagine flying". When we tried to raise horizons with Nikola's solar cloud. Until, while flying to San Mauro Cilento in an orange bee-car, we finally met Utopia in one of our daydreams, and she told us:
"Devour the past utopias and your wishes will start to fly! It's true, all the old utopias have failed, or even worse, they have turned into dystopias. It's true; neoliberalism has imposed itself on a global level. It's true; the ‘gap’ between the rich and the poor has never been so wide as it is today. It's true that for many, nowadays, the only possible form of social and economic organisation seems to be the capitalist model, and they are totally reduced to trying to improve only little details, so as to lessen the possible harm. These fools believe that there is no alternative to a society based on the exploitation of nature, human beings and their creativity. They think art can only exist as a commoditised luxury set aside for the very rich.
What a lack of fantasy, what a lack of logical thinking!
For years the movements against specific, individual aspects of capitalism have become more and more widespread: against the closure of factories, companies and hospitals, against cultural and job insecurity, against the destruction of the welfare state, against austerity policies, against the privatization of the public sector, against financial policies favouring banks and multinational corporations, against urban planning that devastates urban and rural areas, against property speculation and against gentrification, against the progressive restriction of democratic rights and individual freedoms, against discrimination and violence against women, against war and injustice... To all this and more, you said 'No!', but it is now the time to get back to thinking about the 'Yes!'. The time of concrete utopias and fulfilling your desires has returned."
This is what Utopia said.
We looked at each other, and without hesitation we decided to dedicate our research project to Her. In fact, we have called it "Isola Utopia". A collective production which includes exhibitions and performances involving artists, students, residents, architects, curators, theorists, musicians, journalists and others, who will be all collecting and producing moments of thought and artworks for new, possible utopias.
In San Mauro Cilento, from 5 to 10 August, we present, through an exhibition “on the road”, the first results of the workshops cross-initiated this summer. Every evening conferences, debates and presentations will take place outdoors, to further explore different aspects of the concept of utopia and some of its concrete achievements. The days will conclude with the musical workshop in the town square, featuring the Isola Arts Club Band.
The project "Isola Utopia" started in San Mauro Cilento will be presented and developed at the Vienna Secession, Austria (24.9-30.9.2014), at the Survival Kit-Utopian City Festival in Riga, Latvia (4.9–28.9.2014), and in 2015 in Isola, the neighbourhood in Milan, as well as other places.
www.isolartcenter.org / tel: 0039 339 6057 111 / facebook Isola Art Center
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Isola Utopia
Program 5–10 August 2014
Tuesday 5 August: Isola Utopia
11.00-13.00 Flight of the Isola Sun Cloud at Piazza Notar Petillo
19.00-24.00 Opening of the exhibition
20.00, 21.00, 22.00 Guided tours departing from the school, via Provinciale 14, Casalsottano
21.00 Printing 4 Utopia, Screen printing workshop with Serio Collective (Edith Poirier, Daniele Rossi)
22.30 Musical workshop with Isola Art’s Club Band and local musicians, Piazza Europa
Wednesday 6 August: Desperately seeking Utopia
11.00-13.00 Flight of the Isola Sun Cloud at Piazza Notar Petillo
19.00-24.00 The exhibition is open to the public
20.00 Guided tours departing from school, via Provinciale 14, Casalsottano
21.30 Desperately seeking Utopia, Piazza Europa
Open debate with Emanuele Braga (choreographer and activist, Milan), Angelo Castucci (architect and artivist, Milan), Antonio Cipriani (journalist Globalist, Milan), Heinz-Norbert Jocks (art critic Kunstforum, Düsseldorf) Philippe Nathan (architect and curator, Luxembourg), Camilla Pin (activist and curator, Milan) Mariette Schiltz (artivist, Milan), Bert Theis (artivist, Milan). Live sketches by Maddalena Fragnito (artivist, Milan) and contributions by: Edna Gee (artivist, Johannesbourg), Isabell Lorey (political theorist, Berlin), Gerald Raunig (philosopher, Vienna)
23.00 Musical workshop with Isola Art’s Club Band and local musicians, Piazza Europa
Thursday 7 August: Isola is not a utopia, and utopia is not an island
11.00-13.00 Flight of the Isola Sun Cloud at Piazza Notar Petillo
19.00-24.00 The exhibition is open to the public
20.00 Guided tours departing from school, via Provinciale 14, Casalsottano
21.30 Book presentation Fight Specific Isola, Piazza Europa
With the authors Antonio Brizioli, Paolo Caffoni, Steve Piccolo. Presentation of the film Damnatio Memoriae (about gentrification process in Milano and Oslo) by Camilla Topuntoli and of the videoclip Culture don’t grow on trees with Emanuel Balbinot
23.00 Musical workshop with Isola Art’s Club Band and local musicians, Piazza Europa
Friday 8 August: Building into the blue
11.00-13.00 Flight of the Isola Sun Cloud at Piazza Notar Petillo
19.00-24.00 The exhibition is open to the public
20.00 Guided tours departing from school, via Provinciale 14, Casalsottano
20.00 Printing 4 Utopia, Screen printing workshop with Serio Collective (Edith Poirier, Daniele Rossi)
21.30 Building into the blue – Utopias of flying, Piazza Europa. Meeting with Bert Theis and Nikola Uzunovski, with the contribution of Engineer Claudio Tancetti, inventor of the flying Ape (small Italian three-wheel delivery car)
23.00 Musical workshop with Isola Art’s Club Band and local musicians, Piazza Europa
Saturday 9 August: Going beyond the Situationism
11.00-13.00 Flight of the Isola Sun Cloud at Piazza Notar Petillo
19.00-24.00 The exhibition is open to the public
20.00 Guided tours departing from school, via Provinciale 14, Casalsottano
20.00 Printing 4 Utopia, Screen printing workshop with Serio Collective (Edith Poirier, Daniele Rossi)
21.30 Ben oltre l’amara vittoria del situazionismo, che fare? - Vicolo 30, via Cappella 30. Debate with Gianfranco Marelli, Stefano Taccone, Bert Theis and the public
23.00 Concert with the Isola Art’s Club Band workshop and local musicians, Piazza Europa
Sunday 10 August: Concrete Utopias
11.00-13.00 Flight of the Isola Sun Cloud at Piazza Notar Petillo
19.00 Guided tours departing from school, via Provinciale 14, Casalsottano
20.00-24.00 The exhibition is open to the public
20.00 Printing 4 Utopia, Screen printing workshop with Serio Collective (Edith Poirier, Daniele Rossi)
21.30 Concrete Utopias – Architecture and Utopia, Piazza Europa. Meeting with Kristina Borg (artivist, Malta), Valentina Montisci (journalist Globalist, Milan), Philippe Nathan (architect and curator, Luxembourg), Amor Vacui Studio, Ghelostudio Architettura, Project 2.0. (Salerno), Lorenzo degli Esposti (AUFO, Milan)
23.00 Music with Isola Art’s Club Band and local musicians, Piazza Europa
Isola Utopia
Fragments and moments for new utopias
Exhibitions, flights, presentations, debates, performances and music,
a project by Isola Art Center,
presented by Creative Olive,
supported by the Comune di San Mauro Cilento, Cooperativa Agricola Nuovo Cilento, Fornace Falcone
5-10 August, 20.00 – 24.00, San Mauro Cilento (Salerno)
Opening 5 August, 20.00
Presentation of the project, 24.7.2014, “Utopia Urbis”, Corte Catalana di Palazzo Pinto, Mercanti street 63, Salerno
Bad Museum, Zanny Begg, Emanuel Balbinot, Kristina Borg, Sarah Giulia Braun, Antonio Brizioli, Paolo Caffoni, Angelo Castucci, Antonio Cipriani, Francesco Citro, Creative Olive Team, Maddalena Fragnito, Edna Gee, Grupo Etcétera, Heinz-Norbert Jocks, Isabell Lorey, Francesco Lomonaco, Gianfranco Marelli, Valentina Montisci, Philippe Nathan, Denis C. Novello & Isola Art’s Club Band, Nikolay Oleynikov, Camilla Pin, Steve Piccolo, Gerald Raunig, Serio Collective (Edith Poirier, Daniele Rossi), Mariette Schiltz, Stefano Taccone, Claudio Tancetti, Bert Theis, Camilla Topuntoli, Nikola Uzunovski, Wei-Ning Yang, Jiang Zhi, Amor Vacui Studio, Laboratorio di Progettazione Ferrara, Ghelostudio Architettura, Project 2.0., the residents of San Mauro Cilento and others...
Press release Program from 5 to 10 August 2014 CreativeOlive 2014
"Only in us does this light still burn, and we are beginning a fantastic journey toward it, toward the implementation of the central concept of utopia. To find it, to find the right thing, for which it is worthy to live, to be organized, and to have time: that is why we go, why we cut new, metaphysically constitutive paths, summon what is not, build into the blue, and build ourselves into the blue, and there seek the true, the real, where the merely factual disappears - incipit vita nova." - Ernst Bloch, The Spirit of Utopia
Utopia! We searched for her continuously, we never met her, but she has always been close to us. When we occupied a former factory in the Isola neighbourhood in Milan and, together with the gardens, we converted it into a new model for a centre for art, philosophy, music, and other activities and events of the district. When we stood up to unscrupulous real estate developers, cynical politicians, turncoat architects and servile journalists. When together with the children of Isola we sang "Il ragazzo di Via Gluck" ("The Boy of Gluck Street") in front of the politicians of the district council, who had listened to us ... without ever understanding. When one night, together with Christoph, we painted his mural Strategic Embellishment created for the news kiosk of Isola. When we threw the seed bombs over the wire fence of a space that was still closed to the neighbourhood ... a space we wanted to open with the name of Isola Pepe Verde. When together with Macao we vacated the Galfa Tower in Milan and there we hung the banner ... "One could even imagine flying". When we tried to raise horizons with Nikola's solar cloud. Until, while flying to San Mauro Cilento in an orange bee-car, we finally met Utopia in one of our daydreams, and she told us:
"Devour the past utopias and your wishes will start to fly! It's true, all the old utopias have failed, or even worse, they have turned into dystopias. It's true; neoliberalism has imposed itself on a global level. It's true; the ‘gap’ between the rich and the poor has never been so wide as it is today. It's true that for many, nowadays, the only possible form of social and economic organisation seems to be the capitalist model, and they are totally reduced to trying to improve only little details, so as to lessen the possible harm. These fools believe that there is no alternative to a society based on the exploitation of nature, human beings and their creativity. They think art can only exist as a commoditised luxury set aside for the very rich.
What a lack of fantasy, what a lack of logical thinking!
For years the movements against specific, individual aspects of capitalism have become more and more widespread: against the closure of factories, companies and hospitals, against cultural and job insecurity, against the destruction of the welfare state, against austerity policies, against the privatization of the public sector, against financial policies favouring banks and multinational corporations, against urban planning that devastates urban and rural areas, against property speculation and against gentrification, against the progressive restriction of democratic rights and individual freedoms, against discrimination and violence against women, against war and injustice... To all this and more, you said 'No!', but it is now the time to get back to thinking about the 'Yes!'. The time of concrete utopias and fulfilling your desires has returned."
This is what Utopia said.
We looked at each other, and without hesitation we decided to dedicate our research project to Her. In fact, we have called it "Isola Utopia". A collective production which includes exhibitions and performances involving artists, students, residents, architects, curators, theorists, musicians, journalists and others, who will be all collecting and producing moments of thought and artworks for new, possible utopias.
In San Mauro Cilento, from 5 to 10 August, we present, through an exhibition “on the road”, the first results of the workshops cross-initiated this summer. Every evening conferences, debates and presentations will take place outdoors, to further explore different aspects of the concept of utopia and some of its concrete achievements. The days will conclude with the musical workshop in the town square, featuring the Isola Arts Club Band.
The project "Isola Utopia" started in San Mauro Cilento will be presented and developed at the Vienna Secession, Austria (24.9-30.9.2014), at the Survival Kit-Utopian City Festival in Riga, Latvia (4.9–28.9.2014), and in 2015 in Isola, the neighbourhood in Milan, as well as other places.
www.isolartcenter.org / tel: 0039 339 6057 111 / facebook Isola Art Center
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Isola Utopia
Program 5–10 August 2014
Tuesday 5 August: Isola Utopia
11.00-13.00 Flight of the Isola Sun Cloud at Piazza Notar Petillo
19.00-24.00 Opening of the exhibition
20.00, 21.00, 22.00 Guided tours departing from the school, via Provinciale 14, Casalsottano
21.00 Printing 4 Utopia, Screen printing workshop with Serio Collective (Edith Poirier, Daniele Rossi)
22.30 Musical workshop with Isola Art’s Club Band and local musicians, Piazza Europa
Wednesday 6 August: Desperately seeking Utopia
11.00-13.00 Flight of the Isola Sun Cloud at Piazza Notar Petillo
19.00-24.00 The exhibition is open to the public
20.00 Guided tours departing from school, via Provinciale 14, Casalsottano
21.30 Desperately seeking Utopia, Piazza Europa
Open debate with Emanuele Braga (choreographer and activist, Milan), Angelo Castucci (architect and artivist, Milan), Antonio Cipriani (journalist Globalist, Milan), Heinz-Norbert Jocks (art critic Kunstforum, Düsseldorf) Philippe Nathan (architect and curator, Luxembourg), Camilla Pin (activist and curator, Milan) Mariette Schiltz (artivist, Milan), Bert Theis (artivist, Milan). Live sketches by Maddalena Fragnito (artivist, Milan) and contributions by: Edna Gee (artivist, Johannesbourg), Isabell Lorey (political theorist, Berlin), Gerald Raunig (philosopher, Vienna)
23.00 Musical workshop with Isola Art’s Club Band and local musicians, Piazza Europa
Thursday 7 August: Isola is not a utopia, and utopia is not an island
11.00-13.00 Flight of the Isola Sun Cloud at Piazza Notar Petillo
19.00-24.00 The exhibition is open to the public
20.00 Guided tours departing from school, via Provinciale 14, Casalsottano
21.30 Book presentation Fight Specific Isola, Piazza Europa
With the authors Antonio Brizioli, Paolo Caffoni, Steve Piccolo. Presentation of the film Damnatio Memoriae (about gentrification process in Milano and Oslo) by Camilla Topuntoli and of the videoclip Culture don’t grow on trees with Emanuel Balbinot
23.00 Musical workshop with Isola Art’s Club Band and local musicians, Piazza Europa
Friday 8 August: Building into the blue
11.00-13.00 Flight of the Isola Sun Cloud at Piazza Notar Petillo
19.00-24.00 The exhibition is open to the public
20.00 Guided tours departing from school, via Provinciale 14, Casalsottano
20.00 Printing 4 Utopia, Screen printing workshop with Serio Collective (Edith Poirier, Daniele Rossi)
21.30 Building into the blue – Utopias of flying, Piazza Europa. Meeting with Bert Theis and Nikola Uzunovski, with the contribution of Engineer Claudio Tancetti, inventor of the flying Ape (small Italian three-wheel delivery car)
23.00 Musical workshop with Isola Art’s Club Band and local musicians, Piazza Europa
Saturday 9 August: Going beyond the Situationism
11.00-13.00 Flight of the Isola Sun Cloud at Piazza Notar Petillo
19.00-24.00 The exhibition is open to the public
20.00 Guided tours departing from school, via Provinciale 14, Casalsottano
20.00 Printing 4 Utopia, Screen printing workshop with Serio Collective (Edith Poirier, Daniele Rossi)
21.30 Ben oltre l’amara vittoria del situazionismo, che fare? - Vicolo 30, via Cappella 30. Debate with Gianfranco Marelli, Stefano Taccone, Bert Theis and the public
23.00 Concert with the Isola Art’s Club Band workshop and local musicians, Piazza Europa
Sunday 10 August: Concrete Utopias
11.00-13.00 Flight of the Isola Sun Cloud at Piazza Notar Petillo
19.00 Guided tours departing from school, via Provinciale 14, Casalsottano
20.00-24.00 The exhibition is open to the public
20.00 Printing 4 Utopia, Screen printing workshop with Serio Collective (Edith Poirier, Daniele Rossi)
21.30 Concrete Utopias – Architecture and Utopia, Piazza Europa. Meeting with Kristina Borg (artivist, Malta), Valentina Montisci (journalist Globalist, Milan), Philippe Nathan (architect and curator, Luxembourg), Amor Vacui Studio, Ghelostudio Architettura, Project 2.0. (Salerno), Lorenzo degli Esposti (AUFO, Milan)
23.00 Music with Isola Art’s Club Band and local musicians, Piazza Europa
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