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Artribune - Aporìa (in Italian)
L’atrio e la scala principale dell’Istituto Italiano Di Cultura sono stati il teatro, nei giorni scorsi, di un’opera site specific di legno, ceramica e fili. La scala, il giorno 6 dicembre è stata anche il punto di partenza di Andando Restando una performance di danza e musica. L' Istituto, in collaborazione col Consolato Generale d’Italia di New York, ha presentato l’evento in occasione della XVII Giornata del Contemporaneo, sotto il titolo “Aporia” con la curatela di Valeria Orani
Le suggestioni di Antonio Marras , stilista e artista sardo di fama internazionale di cui abbiamo parlato più volte, sono molte e disparate e lo spettatore si può sentire coinvolto e colpito a vari livelli, a seconda della sua esperienza e dei suoi punti di riferimento. Tutto questo conflagra e armoniosamente converge in un insieme di richiami diversi e contrastanti che per nulla spaventano l’autore Marras che anzi ha fatto proprio del paradosso, l’aporia, l’ossimoro i punti chiave della sua poetica.
Il direttore dell’Istituto Fabio Finotti, che quei gradini li sale ogni giorno, ha sentito percorrendo quel passaggio un suono, e presentando il lavoro ne ha sottolineato la melodia: “C’è una musica nascosta nei tessuti e forse in ogni cosa creata dalla mano umana... Dobbiamo ascoltarle, non solo guardarle. I fili, i colori, i materiali si intrecciano in modo visibile per richiamarci ai movimenti, ai sussulti, alle variazioni, alle improvvise svolte di un discorso sonoro. La performance è dunque insita nell’istallazione, che è in se stessa esecuzione”.
E la musica ha guidato su per i gradini ai primo piano gli spettatori arrivati la sera di lunedì 6 “su per le antiche scale” con il canto vero e proprio dell’attore e cantante contraltista Maurizio Aloisio Rippa. Rippa, sulle note della dolente canzone “Lacrime napulitane” quella sera ogni 30 minuti ha condotto il pubblico e i due danzatori Gabriel Da Costa e Francesco Napoli nella sala principale dell’istituto. La coreografia della performance per due corpi e voce sola Andando Restando è di Marco Angelilli.
Foto e testo di Francesca Magnani
SU PER LE ANTICHE SCALE
6 dicembre 2021 – 31 gennaio 2022
686 Park Ave, New York, NY 10065, Stati Uniti
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The hope of a better life, the desire to know and meet new realities, ambition; on the opposite side, the attachment to the roots, the uncertainty, the fear of moving away from what is already known: the last performance that Antonio Marras placeholder image, creative and stylist from Alghero, presented a few days ago at theItalian Cultural Institute in New York for the XVII Contemporary Day promoted by AMACI (Association of Italian Contemporary Art Museums).
The performance went on stage on December 6 last as the inaugural event of the installation “Aporia” by Valeria Orani, built on the steps of the Institute with threads, woods and fabrics that “bind” the spaces together, and which will be open again in the coming weeks from Monday to Friday from 10 to 20.
Tiscali Cultura - La spettacolare performance di Antonio Marras a New York: lo stilista di Alghero conquista gli USA (in Italian)
La spettacolare performance di Antonio Marras a New York: lo stilista di Alghero conquista gli USA
La speranza di una vita migliore, il desiderio di conoscere e incontrare nuove realtà, l'ambizione; dal lato opposto, l'attaccamento alle radici, l'incertezza, la paura di allontanarsi da quanto già si conosce: si muove sui contrasti l'ultima performance che Antonio Marras, creativo e stilista di Alghero, ha presentato pochi giorni fa all'Istituto italiano di Cultura a New York per la XVII Giornata del Contemporaneo promossa da AMACI (Associazione Musei d'Arte Contemporanea Italiani).
La performance è andata in scena il 6 dicembre scorso come evento inaugurale dell'installazione "Aporìa" a cura di Valeria Orani, realizzata sulla scalinata dell'Istituto con fili, legni e tessuti che "legano" tra loro gli spazi, e che sarà visitabile ancora nelle prossime settimane da lunedì a venerdì dalle 10 alle 20.
"Aporìa" era per i greci antichi l'impossibilità di dare una risposta precisa a un problema, nell'incapacità di scegliere tra due soluzioni che sembrano valide entrambe. Le due alternative nell'esistenza umana sono restare e andare: scegliere tra una vita sicura e stabile, o provare a muoversi e conoscere altre culture. Il tema del viaggio è particolarmente caro ad Antonio Marras che pur mantenendo le sue radici, la casa e il laboratorio ad Alghero si muove oggi in tutto il mondo alla continua ricerca di ponti e legami creativi. Viaggiatori e viaggiatrici sono gli ispiratori dei suoi abiti, dove forte è la traccia della Sardegna nella scelta di colori e tessuti ma tantissime sono le suggestioni provenenti da paesi e tempi lontani; particolarmente sentito anche il sentimento verso la Sardegna che, come ogni isola, da un lato si mostra accogliente e sicura come un nido, dall'altro può essere anche prigione con sbarre troppo strette che impediscono di guardare oltre.
Sul viaggio, e in particolare sul nostro passato (e presente) di emigrazione si concentra la performance dal titolo "Andando restando" con cui Marras ha inaugurato l'installazione: lo spettacolo, realizzato con la coreografia di Marco Angelilli, è stato prodotto da 369gradi e accompagnato dalla voce del contralto Maurizio Rippa. In scena, Gabriel Da Costa e Francesco Napoli che hanno interpretato due emigrati, vestiti di pochi stracci e carichi di valigie pesanti, che percorrono la scalinata in preda all'oppressione e all'insicurezza mentre trascinano con sé funi e catene. I due rappresentano il viaggio, ma anche la paura dell'arrivo, le difficoltà incontrate nel paese che li accoglie, il miraggio di una vita che si rivela ben diversa da quella tanto desiderata.
Talkcity - “Aporia”, con Valeria Orani e Antonio Marras la cultura italiana a New York (in Italian)
https://talkcity.it/aporia-con-valeria-orani-e-antonio-marras-la-cultura-italiana-a-new-york/
“APORIA” è stato presentato dall’ Istituto Italiano Di Cultura di New York, in collaborazione col Consolato Generale d’Italia di New York il 6 dicembre 2021.
L’evento, curato da Valeria Orani, e realizzato dall’artista Antonio Marras, rientra nella XVII Giornata del Contemporaneo promossa da AMACI (Associazione Musei d’Arte Contemporanea Italiani), con il patrocinio del Ministero della Cultura – Direzione Generale Creatività Contemporanea e della collaborazione del MAECI – Direzione Generale per la promozione del sistema Paese.
L’evento ha inaugurato un’installazione site-specific dal titolo “Su per le antiche scale” realizzata da Antonio Marras sulla scalinata dell’Istituto Italiano di Cultura a New York con una performance dal titolo “Andando Restando” coreografia di Marco Angelilli, su disegni dello stesso Marras con Gabriel Da Costa e Francesco Napoli e accompagnamento del contralto Maurizio Rippa produzione 369gradi – AMINA>ANIMA (Soul) Project – Regione Autonoma Sardegna.
La performance
La performance ripercorre le tematiche già presenti nell’installazione dando vita al sentimento e alla forza delle azioni. Un percorso che è anche l’impossibilità di dare risposte precise ad un problema che si trova di fronte a due soluzioni, che per quanto opposte sembrano entrambe valide: radici e irrequietezza, attaccamento e necessità di allontanarsi. Sardo, Italiano, Europeo, Africano, Latino, Asiatico e cittadino del Mondo. Luce e ombra. Ordine e disordine. Corpo e spirito.
È “Lacrime napulitane “la prima canzone che accompagna il faticoso viaggio dei due emigranti. Sono coperti da pesanti giacche di pelle che vestono ma non riscaldano, sono carichi di valigie legate con stoffa bianca strappata e annodata ma sono vuote. I legacci sono lenzuola, sono teli da cucina, sono parte del corredo di casa, materiale semplice ma prezioso. Unica dote di povere donne. E vanno gli uomini, attraverso l’Oceano, tra vicissitudine e prove di coraggio e di tenacia.
Trascinano funi ancorate a terra, tentano di strappare quelle radici che tanto male fanno e tanto forti sono. Si attorcigliano, si legano, si intrecciano, si rincorrono, si fanno spazio tra i grovigli della vita, del fato. Ma sono destinati a soffrire, “meschini, costretti a vivere in terre straniere”.
Si spogliano arrivati a Ellis Island mentre si sente in sottofondo “New York New York” in versione interrotta e frastagliata. Mettono tutti i loro averi su un pianoforte che continua ad emettere non più musica ma suoni come se sentisse il dolore e lo strazio dei newcomers, straniti e confusi. Si spogliano per rinascere, per diventare altro.
L’ultimo atto è “L’addio”. Addio da dove? Per dove?
Il sogno di andare restando.
La performance è visibile al link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljbeUXndneY
L’opera installata sarà visibile è visitabile a New York Istituto Italiano di Cultura in New York – 686 Park Avenue, New York, dal lunedì al venerdì ore 10:00 – 16:00
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For "I Dialoghi" of the Archaeological Museum of Cagliari the brilliant stylist was the special guest in the Basilica of San Saturnino
From New York, fresh from the global success of Aporia, performance installation organized by the Italian Cultural Institute of the Big Apple with Valeria Orani and dedicated to contemporary art, in Cagliari for the "Dialogues of archeology, architecture, art and landscape" in short take a few days to then touch other destinations near and far. It is the life of Antonio Marras who loves to cultivate fertile realities around the globe by sowing his seeds of creativity and giving life to dreams, images, poetry and a lot of genius.
Last night he was the protagonist of an exciting meeting in the Basilica of San Saturnino, guest of the review organized by the National Archaeological Museum of Cagliari with the patronage of the Municipality of Cagliari.
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Immaginate un grande stilista che impiega dei giorni per istallare una sua opera d’arte: ma quei fili serviranno per creare tessuto o per intonare delle musiche?
di Michele Valle Perini
04 Dic 2021
Le dee tessono. Le Parche, per esempio, che filano i destini degli uomini con le loro mani e il loro canto. E le Grazie del Foscolo tessono un tessuto magico, dove i personaggi si muovono addirittura come se fossero vivi.
Anche le regine tessono. Penelope, per dirne una, che domina la sua corte e la sua vita con la tela infinita alla quale si dedica notte e giorno.
Ecco, un miracolo di questo tipo lo sta facendo Antonio Marras a New York. Vi immaginate un grande stilista che perde giorni non per i suoi clienti vip o per incontri business, ma per istallare una sua opera d’arte sui muri dell’Istituto di Cultura? Togliendo fioriere, spostando arredi, bucando i muri senza ritegno, invadendo via via le scale con una enorme e magnifica tela di ragno.
Una tela di ragno? Marras?
Esattamente. L’idea è quella di un grande, infinito telaio, i cui fili si distendono da un muro all’altro, ordinati da pettini e rocche di ceramica, e tessuti da mani bianche e nere che si materializzano da corpi invisibili (le dee e le regine di cui si parlava).
Ma quei fili serviranno per creare tessuto o per intonare delle musiche? Non c’è nulla di più vicino ad un’arpa o alla cassa armonica di un pianoforte di un telaio. E allora ecco la magia. Quelle mani che Marras sta istallando all’Istituto di Cultura di New York non solo tessono i nostri abiti e il nostro fato, ma la musica segreta che ci accompagna e ci ispira in ogni momento della nostra vita.
L’istallazione sarà completata e disvelata il 6 dicembre, quando ospiterà una performance diretta dal coreografo Marco Angelilli, su disegni dello stesso Marras, con Gabriel Da Costa e Francesco Napoli, e la voce del contralto Maurizio Rippa, prodotta da 369gradi all’interno del progetto AMINA>ANIMA (Soul) – a round-trip journey to discover and reveal the universal value of Sardinia through contemporary art and cultural exchange (PO FESR 2014-2020 Regione Autonoma della Sardegna).
Il tutto sarà visibile su youtube lunedì 6 dicembre alle ore 16 (di New York, ovvero le 10 di mattina in Italia) a questo link.
L’evento, curato da Valeria Orani, rientra nella XVII Giornata del Contemporaneo promossa da AMACI (Associazione Musei d’Arte Contemporanea Italiani), con il patrocinio del Ministero della Cultura – Direzione Generale Creatività Contemporanea e della collaborazione del MAECI – Direzione Generale per la promozione del sistema Paese.
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Rewriters - Five Questions To The Italian Producer Valeria Orani To Descover New York During Covid-Time
by Roberta Calandra
(Translation)
In a year as extreme as this, I would like to greet our readers with a valuable testimony that comes from New York City. A wish for new exchanges between cultures, peoples, and institutions, through the words of a woman who deals with this specifically: Valerian Orani, theater curator and producer, who worked in Italy for 30 years before moving to NYC in 2014. Here, she creates a relationship between the American market and contemporary Italian culture through several projects: Umanism (http://www.umanism.com), Amina (http://www.aminaproject.org), and IAPP (http://www.italianandamericanplaywrightsproject.com), dedicated to dramaturgy. In Italy, she is the artistic director of 369gradi production (http://www.369gradi.it).
Tell us how you got to New York City and why. When one does something so big, there is not always a well-defined reason. I think the reason lays more in the concept of action and determination: I raised the bar of my personal challenges to see if there was a limit, or maybe to show myself that I fear no limit. I wanted to live a concrete experience to transform my own environment for the better: I wanted to be an example of how we can be moved by things we do not like to make things better. Getting here was not easy. As usual, one thinks they have planned everything, but then reality kicks in and unexpected things happen. New York City is a place that keeps amazing you, it challenges you. Now, six years later, I am beginning to better understand how to look at this crazy city; I am finally beginning to feel its personality, to understand its thousand souls, and to have a little fun.
The biggest satisfaction of your journey up to last year… Managing to build beautiful projects which bring me joy and enthusiasm in complete independence, without any limit imposed by others or myself. This has been the biggest professional satisfaction of this journey. Naturally, there are also many private ones that have to do with my own life and my son.
The biggest obstacles? The cost of living. Before I got here, everyone was telling me how New York was very expensive, and I never truly considered it, but the reality is much worse. This has been one of the greatest traumas, but also the compass which has guided me in my New York education. My life has changed greatly since I have moved here, and the biggest change is linked to the way in which I perceive value. In our culture, we learn to judge value as positive or negative. In New York I learnt, not without difficulties, that these two things are not necessarily opposites, and that it is actually better to put them in relation with each other. I learnt that giving the right value to what one does, to time, to actions, to one’s talent, is a good practice which influences one’s relation with others and one’s perception of themselves.
What changed with covid and how are you reorganizing your work? In New York, theaters have been closed since March (https://rewriters.it/intervista-a-silvano-spada-ecco-la-sua-formula-delloff-off-theatre/), and events, concerts and movies have been suspended. It is also hard to talk about social safety nets because the society here is not based on the citizens’ well-being, but on their productivity. The response to the crisis following the pandemic was proactive. Many have left the city and its costly life and dimensioned their lives with more sustainable standards. Many reinvented themselves with new careers. It has been an intense couple of months. Besides the pandemic, Black Lives Matter protests and the general election have been very stressful and have shown a nation divided in half. Art and culture are deeply interconnected with the surrounding environment, and it is normal that artists have another job which have nothing to do with the arts. It is not surprising to meet artists who are also taxi drivers, waiters or salespeople. The news is backstage workers: they have come up with the most amusing jobs, such as tour managers who organized moves for people who left the city.
What is the atmosphere like in New York City today? The city that never sleeps has slowed down and, for the first time, even the subway shuts down from 1am to 5am. There are few people around, there are no tourists, you do not leave your apartment if it’s not necessary. New York today is showing its underground: poverty and desperation are emerging – they were always there but would get confused with everything else. However, I love the atmosphere in New York City now. Its most human dimension is showing, covid has eliminated (at least for now) the superfluous, you can feel the positive vibrations. One cannot feel, among those who stayed, any rush to go back to normal, but there is a strong feeling that the people are united in the journey to get to the other side with as little damage as possible. We all feel like we have been called to do our part in complying with the rules, in respecting the work of essential workers, in trusting Governor Cuomo, who asked for unimaginable sacrifices to get a hold of a situation that appeared to be impossible to tame. The City today looks nothing like the New York City one usually imagines. It is a new condition, not a permanent one for sure, in which we are all parts of a perfect organization. It is a great inspiration and great pride for us all. It was tough, but also important and a privilege.
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Vanity Fair (Italy) - Italians In The Us: "We Hope That Arrogance Will Be Banned From Now On"
by Simona Siri
(Translation):
Varied, multiform, made of people now naturalized American and therefore with the right to vote in the presidential elections, the Italian community in New York has never been so attentive to what is happening in politics at this time. The testimonies.
The announcement of Joe Biden’s victory, on Saturday, November 7th, was welcomed in many American cities by joyful celebrations and spontaneous gatherings in the streets. New York was no exception. Donald Trump’s hometown, which has a tense and perhaps unmendable relationship with the President, was the first to take it to the streets, to signal that Trump's defeat was experienced almost as the end of a dictatorship.
Although the President-in-Office keeps refusing to acknowledge the victory of his rival and cries - tweets, actually- about fraud and stolen elections, the majority of the population -a poll says 80%- recognizes that Joe Biden won and that therefore he will move in the White House starting January 20th, day of the oath. Preceded by so much enthusiasm, the democratic candidate finds himself in a situation that is far from easy: at the same time delegitimized by Trump and pressured by the huge expectations of those who see him as the man that will solve the problems of American society.
«I hope a social climate where the word has the right weight and arrogance is banned is coming», tells us Francesca Di Matteo, founder and CEO of "Strategica Comunicazione". She also puts her hopes in the reform of the health system and maybe, who knows, even in the resolution of the age-old gun problem.
«I didn’t sleep last night», writes by email Stefano Vaccara, editor of La Voce di New York, an online magazine that publishes -in both Italian and English- news targeted to the big Italian-American community since 2013. The anguish for the dizzy hang-up that seems to have no solution is in his words. «Trump is planning a coup. The situation is dire. Biden appears smiling and says not to worry; in the meantime, the other guy keeps purging the key roles to put incompetent figures but totally loyal to him, as he just did in the Pentagon and -it’s expected- in the FBI and the CIA. Of the two one: or Biden knows very well what is happening and is studying the counter-moves behind the scenes -but appears calm to avoid the worst from happening in the streets of America- or he and his Democratic advisors are delusionals who have not understood that Trump always does what he says», continues Vaccara -who wrote about Trump's authoritarian push in La Voce di New York back in January 2017.
«I think of myself as an independent", says Rosario Procino, owner of Ribalta pizzeria, the reference point of the Italian community especially on Sundays, when Ribalta becomes the place where soccer fans can watch together the games of the Italian football championship. He has American citizenship and voted. «I despise Trump as a person, I would have preferred a moderate Republican candidate or Michael Bloomberg: I would have paid gold to see him run for President. As an entrepreneur, I am skeptical about the fiscal policy that Joe Biden might adopt, but the scenario that lies ahead with the Democratic President and the Republican Senate seems to create a good balance, and the stock market will appreciate that too. I think that the reactions, the people pouring in the streets, were much more against Trump than an expression of satisfaction for Biden's victory ”.
Having different opinions, experiences, and ideas is the norm within a non-monolithic community. Valeria Orani, entrepreneur in the field of contemporary performing arts, is here with an 01 visa, the one issued to “extraordinary” talents. «The past few years have been very hard on us, the climate we have experienced has clearly been weighed down by divisive policies openly and shamelessly carried out by Trump,» she says. «I always thought that this Nation was a successful experiment of contemporary democracy, but it has revealed many flaws. There’re around 70 days from not to the moment Joe Biden is sworn in, and I’m not totally sure there’s no reason to not be afraid that something might happen. My desire is that of the many Americans who want to continue the long and slow path towards the respect for each and every human being, regardless of race or class. Healthcare, systemic racism, abysmal social inequality. Perhaps after these four years, the evidence of all this is even more clear; but as a European, as an Italian, I will never be able to fully understand some of the things that happen in the United States. I believe my hopes are only in part those of the Americans, but I have more faith in a politician than in an entrepreneur, for sure. And at the end of the day, he is not even an example of an overly brilliant entrepreneur».
«I will never forget the moment when they told me that Biden had become President,» says Semhar Ghebrenegus Salvati: who lives in New York it’s seven years and works in advertising for the fashion department. «The relief I felt then, mixed with the fear that this will not happen. My joy is even greater to know that Kamala Harris will be our Vice-President, it proofs that a better way is possible, and I am looking forward to her starting to work. Anyway, until I see Biden put his hand on the Bible and swear I won't believe it completely. Actually, I'm thinking of going to Washington for the inauguration and taking part in this historic moment».
For some, the crackdown on immigration, even legal given by Trump, to which the blocking of flights due to a pandemic was then added, was a source of stress and uncertainty and meant the impossibility of returning to Italy for the summer holidays and who knows. for those of Christmas what will happen. Fears and anxieties of which Ivana Lo Stimolo, founder of the New York Italian Women group is well aware, the true glue of an increasingly numerous and increasingly socially active group of women, at least before the arrival of the coronavirus. "The impossibility of traveling and visiting families of origin has affected many of us," he says. "Soon I will organize a virtual meeting to exchange views on these elections and to share the sense of liberation we feel right now".
GQ Italia - Joe Biden president, what Americans expect now
November 9, 2020
Exactly four years after Donald Trump's victory over Hillary Clinton, the story changes: the Biden-Harris era begins. With the promise of a more welcoming America and that it will return to give possibilities
For over 75 million people, the day Joe Biden became president of The United States was a four-year long-awaited moment. Exactly from the night of Tuesday, November 8, 2016, when Donald J. Trump defeated Hillary Clinton in the race for the White House, thus becoming the 45th president of the United States.
From Trump to Biden
That cold and wet night, to the tune of the Air Force One soundtrack (a 1997 film in which Harrison Ford is a heroic president of the United States), the newly elected Republican President took the stage set up in the Hilton Midtown hotel ballroom. and he promised the entire Trump family, its constituents, and the whole world: “I will be the president of all Americans. The forgotten of this country will no longer be forgotten ».
A few minutes earlier, three kilometers further west, on the big screens of the Javits Center, where the Democrats were headquartered (the same one that was used as a field hospital during the Covid-19 emergency), even the outgoing president Barack Obama was speaking to the thousands of New Yorkers who thronged the convention center and millions of other spectators. He too was making a promise, and he was asking his people for a commitment. That of continuing to give our best by working alongside our opponents to achieve, together, the good of all Americans. “It doesn't matter who wins or loses today,” Obama said on November 8, 2016. “What matters is that democracy and the common good win. It is the choices that each of us will make from now on, the ones that matter. One thing is certain: the sun always rises in the morning. And America will always be the largest country in the world ».
Thousands of people of all ages, races, creeds, nationalities, gender identities, who since yesterday have poured into the squares and streets of New York (and many other cities, in America and in the world) to replace the memory November 8, 2016 (and everything that followed) that of November 8, 2020, the Day One of the era Joe Biden / Kamala Harris.
We want "a great America, again, for everyone"
“We have kept faith with that democracy pact made with Barack Obama then, and with Joe and Kamala now. And I'm not just talking about the over 75 million voters, but those who have no voice because they didn't write “Americano” in their passport, despite having “AmeriHuman” encoded in their DNA ». Valeria Orani, Sardinian curator and producer, Roman by adoption and New Yorker for love (the one for Italian theater and culture), remembers the difficult choices she had to make in the last four years. The scenes of violence, racism, abuses, and injustices that she never wanted to be a spectator of. The doubts, the fear of not making it, the desire to go home.
“But it's the final result that matters. And the result is the hundreds of thousands of people who for over 24 hours have gathered peacefully in the streets and squares of New York (and many other American and world capitals), to celebrate the new president of the United States, Joe Biden and his deputy, Kamala Harris to renew faith in a better America, who shows the world that "doing the right thing" is possible, and is the only right thing to do to fight the most dangerous virus of all, that of 'intolerance".
With Valeria, under the statue of Garibaldi who watches over the thousand (almost 1500) gathered here in Washington Square park, there is also Tiziana Marcuccio, a Milanese communication professional, who in January 2017, in the first months of the Trump presidency made the big leap and moved to New York. «Today, finally, the emotional smog made of anger, fueled by a national policy of hatred and division based exclusively on the arrogance of the strongest and richest has dissipated. The political spring has blossomed, ”he says. “Now I expect an America that makes progress in protecting public health and the environment. May it once again become an example of welcome and possibility. Because this is what Joe and Kamala promised, that by working together we can do it. That armed with compassion and openness to the other we can make great not only America but the world, and give a better future to the whole of humanity ”.
Even Laura Campisi, a young and talented jazz singer from Palermo arrived in New York during the first term of Obama, spent in apnea these last four years. «I love this country, I love democracy and social justice. Discovering the existence of a racist, violent, fascist America was hard. I feared for the lives of minorities of all colors, for the survival of the civic sense of this great country, for national and personal security, of Joe, the American I love and who I married just a year ago, and of Eddy, our little dog. Today I am not afraid, I believe in America, in Joe Biden, in Kamala Harris, and in those who, like them, are committed to democracy. Together we can make America Great. Again. For everyone".
L'ultimo Nastro di Krapp: Italian and American Playwrights Project Special
La Repubblica - Sardegna restart from New York
by Lucio Luca
Lucio Luca
(Translation)
The"Amina" Project was conceived by Valeria Orani to promote her land by selecting professionals and protagonists of American art travel & design and engage them in an journey to experience the secrets of the land.
A project conceived in 2019 by Valeria Orani, curator with a long experience in the performing arts, to offer the traveler a new formula of tourist experience through the visions and suggestions of contemporary arts and the Sardinian tradition. Amina - Sardinian word that means "Soul" - is the title chosen for a path that involves artists and the territory and aims to build value through the different creative expressions, highlighting the heritage of an artist when he molds outside his land of origin.
To promote the area, Amina is looking for travel companions, professionals residing in North America, from the world of arts and culture, to share with them the experience of discovering exclusive places full of energy, immersed in nature and with one of the healthiest, richest and most historic food and wine traditions in the world. The trip includes 5 days in Barbagia during the ancestral rites of "Carrasegare", where the Mammuthones, Merdules, Turpos are the protagonists: men covered in goat furs, bells and with their faces painted or covered by mysterious black wooden masks whose origin unknown is prior to the Dionysian rites.
"We asked ourselves how to effectively convey the charm of a millenary culture, how to tell about Sardinia outside Sardinia - explains project curator Valeria Orani - Art gives us a chance. To build this story we involved four Sardinian artists. Alessandro Carboni, Cristian Chironi and Maurizio Saiu who intertwine performing and visual arts, architecture and music in their research. All three of them are internationally respected for their talent. Antonio Marras is a fashion designer and mercurial artist whose fame is recognized globally. Costantino Nivola and Maria Lai were also of inspiration in our research ”.
“Sardinia - continues Orani - is a land rich in ancestral rituals that are expressed in many forms: in the nature of the territory, in the handicraft production, in the popular traditions, in a lifestyle that in some cases has remained almost intact for millennia. This energy manages to be a source of inspiration for contemporary language, the arts and design are expressions of this dialogue, the curatorial vision responds to the desire of the traveler in search of experiences. The project was born as a traveling metaphor of a round trip that intends to enhance contemporary Sardinia, witnessing its universality through an action of cultural updating that breaks down seasonal boundaries ".
But why did you choose the name Amina for this project? “Amina is the Sardinian translation of the word Soul. Coincidentally, her translation also appears when reading the word backwards. This randomness seemed perfect for a project that was born as a metaphor of return ”. Anyone interested in traveling with AMINA> ANIMA (Soul) can request further information from info@aminaproject.org or by consulting the website www.aminaproject.org