Silvia Mei è ricercatrice freelance, critica teatrale e dramaturg. PhD in Storia delle Arti e dello Spettacolo presso l'Università di Pisa (2014), è stata assegnista di ricerca presso l’Università di Torino. Attualmente è docente a contratto di Iconografia teatrale presso il Dipartimento delle Arti dell’Università di Bologna e di Teorie e tecniche delle comunicazioni di massa al FISPPA dell’Università di Padova. Scrive per la webzine «Culture Teatrali», di cui è co-editor e responsabile di redazione per la versione cartacea.
This book was published thanks to the commitment and the hard work of V18 Foundation. Thus we wan... more This book was published thanks to the commitment and the hard work of V18 Foundation. Thus we want to thanks the Board of Valletta 2018 Foundation, the Research Department, the Regional Coordinators, and all the V18 team.
This is not a festival Preface First of all, this is not a catalogue. Not one of those ‘o cial’ catalogues which are produced on the occasion of exhibitions, expositions, or other similar events, before they take place. This does not even re ect a will to report on an episode which has inspired the production of the pages you are reading. What this work may be considered is a map representing not the reality, but the experience of it. This book is the ‘precipitate’ of an experience: that of the special edition of Altofest, held in Malta in April and May 2018. Since 2011, Altofest has always taken place in Naples. It is a unique event both in Italy and especially in the city. It is hard to de ne or label it. Altofest has not the characteristics of a given type or genre: it is not public art, it is not street theatre, and it is not urban dance; it is not land art and it is not apartment theatre or teatro dei luoghi (theatre of places). You can only try Altofest. If you think you are going to assist shows for a few spectators in someone’s house, you are mistaking the meaning of the extra-communitarian festival ideated and managed by TeatrInGestAzione, the company led by Anna Gesualdi and Giovanni Trono, directors of Altofest.
Considering the questions arisen from Altofest on a more theoretical and existential level, an in... more Considering the questions arisen from Altofest on a more theoretical and existential level, an interesting research path has been offered by an etymological analysis of the term displace, which brings together the suffix dis – which means ‘far away’, ‘apart’, ‘separated’, but also ‘having a privative, negative, or reversing force’– and the verb ‘place’, meaning ‘collocating, situating, putting in a given place’. In fact, this word seems to evoke a self-contradictory movement, which is difficult to conceive: a movement which seems to go in the direction of a given place, with the aim of causing its loss, a gesture which puts something in relation with space and at the same time separates it from the space itself. In this perspective, the term ‘displace” evokes also numerous situations which reveal how the contemporary relation with space becomes confused, contradictory, complex. “Space becomes a question to us” as Georges Perec wrote. Starting from this meaning of the verb displace, we have looked at Altofest and the processes it generates as a field of experiences, where to comprehend how the relationship with spaces becomes problematic nowadays.
edited by Silvia Mei and Loretta Mesiti
cover and book design by Davide Sforza
for English translation and revision, special thanks to Rosa Coppola, Anna Estdhal, Carlo Eugeni, Serenella Martufi, Rossella Mazzaglia, Angelo Romagnoli and Anna Trono
Produced by Valletta 2018 Foundation TeatrInGestAzione and Altofest - International Contemporary Live Art
with the support of Ambasciata Italiana a Malta - Istituto Italiano di Cultura La Valletta Mactt - Mediterranean Academy of Culture, Tourism and Trade
this book features a link to On the Dust Island A documentary film crossing by Altofest Malta 2018 filmed by Giuseppe Valentino
This book was published thanks to the commitment and the hard work of V18 Foundation. Thus we wan... more This book was published thanks to the commitment and the hard work of V18 Foundation. Thus we want to thanks the Board of Valletta 2018 Foundation, the Research Department, the Regional Coordinators, and all the V18 team.
This is not a festival Preface First of all, this is not a catalogue. Not one of those ‘o cial’ catalogues which are produced on the occasion of exhibitions, expositions, or other similar events, before they take place. This does not even re ect a will to report on an episode which has inspired the production of the pages you are reading. What this work may be considered is a map representing not the reality, but the experience of it. This book is the ‘precipitate’ of an experience: that of the special edition of Altofest, held in Malta in April and May 2018. Since 2011, Altofest has always taken place in Naples. It is a unique event both in Italy and especially in the city. It is hard to de ne or label it. Altofest has not the characteristics of a given type or genre: it is not public art, it is not street theatre, and it is not urban dance; it is not land art and it is not apartment theatre or teatro dei luoghi (theatre of places). You can only try Altofest. If you think you are going to assist shows for a few spectators in someone’s house, you are mistaking the meaning of the extra-communitarian festival ideated and managed by TeatrInGestAzione, the company led by Anna Gesualdi and Giovanni Trono, directors of Altofest.
Considering the questions arisen from Altofest on a more theoretical and existential level, an in... more Considering the questions arisen from Altofest on a more theoretical and existential level, an interesting research path has been offered by an etymological analysis of the term displace, which brings together the suffix dis – which means ‘far away’, ‘apart’, ‘separated’, but also ‘having a privative, negative, or reversing force’– and the verb ‘place’, meaning ‘collocating, situating, putting in a given place’. In fact, this word seems to evoke a self-contradictory movement, which is difficult to conceive: a movement which seems to go in the direction of a given place, with the aim of causing its loss, a gesture which puts something in relation with space and at the same time separates it from the space itself. In this perspective, the term ‘displace” evokes also numerous situations which reveal how the contemporary relation with space becomes confused, contradictory, complex. “Space becomes a question to us” as Georges Perec wrote. Starting from this meaning of the verb displace, we have looked at Altofest and the processes it generates as a field of experiences, where to comprehend how the relationship with spaces becomes problematic nowadays.
edited by Silvia Mei and Loretta Mesiti
cover and book design by Davide Sforza
for English translation and revision, special thanks to Rosa Coppola, Anna Estdhal, Carlo Eugeni, Serenella Martufi, Rossella Mazzaglia, Angelo Romagnoli and Anna Trono
Produced by Valletta 2018 Foundation TeatrInGestAzione and Altofest - International Contemporary Live Art
with the support of Ambasciata Italiana a Malta - Istituto Italiano di Cultura La Valletta Mactt - Mediterranean Academy of Culture, Tourism and Trade
this book features a link to On the Dust Island A documentary film crossing by Altofest Malta 2018 filmed by Giuseppe Valentino
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This is not a festival
Preface
First of all, this is not a catalogue. Not one of those ‘o cial’ catalogues which are produced on the occasion of exhibitions, expositions, or other similar events, before they take place. This does not even re ect a will to report on an episode which has inspired the production of the pages you are reading. What this work may be considered is a map representing not the reality, but the experience of it. This book is the ‘precipitate’ of an experience: that of the special edition of Altofest, held in Malta in April and May 2018.
Since 2011, Altofest has always taken place in Naples. It is a unique event both in Italy and especially in the city. It is hard to de ne or label it. Altofest has not the characteristics of a given type or genre: it is not public art, it is not street theatre, and it is not urban dance; it is not land art and it is not apartment theatre or teatro dei luoghi (theatre of places). You can only try Altofest. If you think you are going to assist shows for a few spectators in someone’s house, you are mistaking the meaning of the extra-communitarian festival ideated and managed by TeatrInGestAzione, the company led by Anna Gesualdi and Giovanni Trono, directors of Altofest.
Starting from this meaning of the verb displace, we have looked at Altofest and the processes it generates as a field of experiences, where to comprehend how the relationship with spaces becomes problematic nowadays.
edited by
Silvia Mei and Loretta Mesiti
cover and book design by
Davide Sforza
for English translation and revision, special thanks to
Rosa Coppola, Anna Estdhal, Carlo Eugeni, Serenella Martufi,
Rossella Mazzaglia, Angelo Romagnoli and Anna Trono
Produced by
Valletta 2018 Foundation
TeatrInGestAzione and Altofest - International Contemporary Live Art
with the support of
Ambasciata Italiana a Malta - Istituto Italiano di Cultura La Valletta
Mactt - Mediterranean Academy of Culture, Tourism and Trade
this book features a link to
On the Dust Island
A documentary film crossing by Altofest Malta 2018
filmed by Giuseppe Valentino
Copyright
© Valletta 2018 Foundation - all rights reserved
Exchange Buildings, Republic Street, Valletta, VLT 1117
© TeatrInGestAzione, 2018 - all rights reserved
Via mezzocannone, 19 - 80134 Napoli
valletta2018.org - altofest.net
typed in Malta by Printcare Press - October 2018
This is not a festival
Preface
First of all, this is not a catalogue. Not one of those ‘o cial’ catalogues which are produced on the occasion of exhibitions, expositions, or other similar events, before they take place. This does not even re ect a will to report on an episode which has inspired the production of the pages you are reading. What this work may be considered is a map representing not the reality, but the experience of it. This book is the ‘precipitate’ of an experience: that of the special edition of Altofest, held in Malta in April and May 2018.
Since 2011, Altofest has always taken place in Naples. It is a unique event both in Italy and especially in the city. It is hard to de ne or label it. Altofest has not the characteristics of a given type or genre: it is not public art, it is not street theatre, and it is not urban dance; it is not land art and it is not apartment theatre or teatro dei luoghi (theatre of places). You can only try Altofest. If you think you are going to assist shows for a few spectators in someone’s house, you are mistaking the meaning of the extra-communitarian festival ideated and managed by TeatrInGestAzione, the company led by Anna Gesualdi and Giovanni Trono, directors of Altofest.
Starting from this meaning of the verb displace, we have looked at Altofest and the processes it generates as a field of experiences, where to comprehend how the relationship with spaces becomes problematic nowadays.
edited by
Silvia Mei and Loretta Mesiti
cover and book design by
Davide Sforza
for English translation and revision, special thanks to
Rosa Coppola, Anna Estdhal, Carlo Eugeni, Serenella Martufi,
Rossella Mazzaglia, Angelo Romagnoli and Anna Trono
Produced by
Valletta 2018 Foundation
TeatrInGestAzione and Altofest - International Contemporary Live Art
with the support of
Ambasciata Italiana a Malta - Istituto Italiano di Cultura La Valletta
Mactt - Mediterranean Academy of Culture, Tourism and Trade
this book features a link to
On the Dust Island
A documentary film crossing by Altofest Malta 2018
filmed by Giuseppe Valentino
Copyright
© Valletta 2018 Foundation - all rights reserved
Exchange Buildings, Republic Street, Valletta, VLT 1117
© TeatrInGestAzione, 2018 - all rights reserved
Via mezzocannone, 19 - 80134 Napoli
valletta2018.org - altofest.net
typed in Malta by Printcare Press - October 2018