The city is one of us
May 25th - 31st 2008, Bari (Italy)

Second phase of the workshop “Art for Social Transformation”, within the XIII Biennale of Young Artists from Europe and the Mediterranean

Interdisciplinary and participated workshop curated by Emanuela Baldi, Abdalla Daif, Sameh El Hlawany and Filippo Fabbrica, with the special participation of Porzia Petrone.

With the participation of: Florence Aigner, Saïd Aït El Moumen, Alkis Daikos, Isabel Andreu Roglà, Yossi Atia, Hasan Salih Ay, Mirjana Batinic, Sonia Leimer, Lina Rica, Antonio Martino, Anna Mawby, Fanny Mesnard, Anja Puntari, Tamara Romeo, Itamar Rose, Micheal Strasser, Samuel George Taylor, Secil Yaylali, Amina Zoubir.

The XIII Biennale of Young Artists from Europe and the Mediterranean (Associacion Internationale pour la Biennale des Jeunes Créateures de l’Europe et de la Méditerranée – BJCEM) invited Love Difference to curate the second phase of the workshop “Art For Social Transformation” which took place in Bari, Italy.

During the Bjcem, the participants who had planned and formulated the proposal for their project “The city is one of us” during the first part of the workshop in Biella, carried out different activities to involve the participants of the Biennale and specially the inhabitants of Bari in their work.

“Memory” was considered by the participants as the knowledge of a space. The first step towards a dialogue was to discover the space where the inhabitants of Bari live. Therefore the workshop experienced the memory of the city of Bari through the eye of an old woman, a fisherman, a child…
By presenting, discussing and working together with the inhabitants of the city the participants dealt with themes like the social role of an artist or intercultural dialogue.

"It was not easy to enter again in the idea of "The city is one of us" after one year, but I think the context of the old city centre of Bari helped.
The welcoming Southern people let artists enter their houses spontaneously, and in only few days an exchange was produced, when after the artists had been guested by citizens, those same citizens entered the Biennal area bringing with them their tradition, memory, vitality and anger also, translated by action. In fact here, where the language of communication was not so much useful, it was hands and eyes to communicate the need to exchange knowledge and stories. It was a dialogue between the hand making of pasta and the filming of a portion of life"
Emanuela Baldi

Watch the video made by the participants during the workshop:

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Video by Saïd Aït El Moumen

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Video by Yossi Atia and Amina Zoubir

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Video by Antonio Martino

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Video by Itamar Rose

Gallery (click on the thumbnails to enlarge)

Download the evaluation of the workshop (PDF)


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