• Casermetta San Regolo
Saturday 16th November, 10.00-13.00 e 14.00-16.00
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From names to streets. Imagining the city
Workshop with Giuditta Vendrame, visual artist
We often pass through places and cities following a blue line on a map, leading us from A to B. We know the name of our destination, but often the names of the places we pass through escape us, we do not know them or do not remember them.
The workshop aims to immerse ourselves in the intangible culture of the streets and roads of Lucca. Through walking, stopping and asking, we will explore and investigate the city place names, collecting fragments of stories and anecdotes that will be transformed into a new poetic mapping, both personal and collective.
The names will become doors to the imaginary, while walking, crossing will become engines of new relationships.
The workshop will consist of two main phases: we will begin with an exploration of the streets and alleys of Lucca, during which, starting from the place names, we will collect fragments of stories through questions and impromptu encounters. Subsequently, in a moment of discussion and sharing, we will collectively elaborate personal and anecdotal experiences, as well as the fragments collected, from which a poetic map will emerge. This map will reflect the new relationships established with the places and perhaps, lead us to rename the places themselves.
Timeline
10.00-11.00 am presentations
11.00-13.00 walk and search in the city
13.00 -14.00 lunch
14.00-16.00 poetic mapping
sharing collected fragments, new relationships with places and stories emerged, and re-imagining the names of the city
Giuditta Vendrame
Giuditta Vendrame is an artist and teaches at the Academy of Design in Eindhoven.
In her work, she uses different media to explore interconnected themes of space, mobility and personality. Through a multidisciplinary and collaborative research-based practice, she questions socio-political structures that are often left unresolved.
His aim is to reveal human vulnerability and fragility, in contrast to the sense of security promised by these instruments of protection and control.
In 2021, he exhibited at the Venice Biennale.
