Raw wool.
Giuditta Vendrame in front of her installation Unlanded.
Video-frame from the Desinenza estinta by Lucia Veronesi.
GIUNGLA radicale, pt. 2
Rooted and radical derive from root, yet refer to two distant meanings.
Rooted recalls belonging to a land, to a fixed place, to an identity, to something stable and firm.
Radical has for synonyms Jacobin, innovator, liberal, libertarian, novelist, progressive (see Treccani), it refers to those who tackle problems at their root.
GIUNGLA in 2024 questions itself around the ROOTS and its drifts of meaning, calling on artists and researchers to express themselves. Today, perhaps more so than yesterday, finding a balance between attachment to one’s own land and traditions, and the desire to migrate, to break with one’s past in order to build a (better?) future elsewhere, is increasingly strong everywhere in the world. In addition to the migratory flows of people fleeing poverty and war, there are also the expats, the remote workers, those who have wanted to break with their routines, quit their jobs and live in other countries and cultures. Lucca continues to be among the provinces with the highest rate of emigrants in Tuscany, second to Florence. On the other hand, finding a balance between being rooted and being radical, between tradition and innovation, between fixity and openness to change, raises issues related to welcoming the different, to translating past issues with the perspective of today. One only has to think of the generation gap that seems to be growing wider and wider, and of the inability to understand the world of young people that has developed with a technology that millennials are already struggling to understand. GIUNGLA Radicale then wants to interrogate themes ranging from migration to the digital divide, from craft practices to the artistic practices of the present.
PROGRAM | November 14th – 17th, 2024
17.30 – 19.00
Presentation of the book with the authors Linda Bertelli – lecturer in Aesthetics, Scuola IMT Alti Studi Lucca, and Marta Equi Pierazzini – researcher and lecturer at Università Bocconi and Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera.
Moderator: Elena Magalotti, philosopher
Admission free while places last
21.00 – 23.00
Performance with poet Giulia Martini, artists Marius Escande and Sarah Illouz, live coders Gabriele Favazza and Gabriele Paolini
Admission free while places last
14.30 – 17.30
Workshop with Edoardo Cresci, architect and lecturer in Architectural and Urban Design at the University of Florence. In collaboration with the Order of Architects of Lucca
Biblioteca Statale di Lucca (National Library)
17.30 – 19.00
Public presentation of the workshop by Guido Segni – new media artist, lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts in Carrara
Admission free while places last
*The workshop is aimed at young postgraduate students and proposes a reflection on the role of libraries in the era of artificial intelligence. First meeting: Monday 28 October from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. at the State Library of Lucca.
21.00 – 22.30
Presentation of the project with artist Lucia Veronesi and Davide Dal Sasso – researcher in aesthetics at Scuola IMT Alti Studi Lucca
Admission free while places last
10.00–13.00 | 14.00–16.00
Workshop with Giuditta Vendrame, visual artist.
Chiesa della Biblioteca civica Agorà
17.30 – 19.00
Presentation of the book with the curator Gabriele Neri, architect, historian of architecture and design, teaches at the Polytechnic of Turin and Sara Catenacci, art historian and museum professional, researcher at the Scuola IMT Alti Studi Lucca.
Admission free while places last
9.30 – 13.00
Photography workshop with Matteo Fenili.
15.00 – 16.30
Book presentation with the author Emanuela Anechoum, in conversation with Irene Paganucci and Alfredo Marasti of Millimètrica APS
Admission free while places last
TEAM MOWGLI
In 2024, we involved young people under 35 in the project team, passing on to them knowledge and skills acquired over the years of organising GIUNGLA, but also listening to and co-designing proposals to be integrated into the November programme.
GIUNGLA radicale, pt.1
To learn more about the first part of radical GIUNGLA, which took place in May in Lucca’s Mercato del Carmine with an exhibition of local and international artists, click here!
