Light makes sense only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error.
It is the mixture of these opposites that populates our lives,
makes it intoxicating, toxic. We exist only
in terms of this conflict,in the zone where white collides with black.
Louis Aragon
GoDEEP is a workshop aimed at young people between the ages of 18 and 35, connected to the Rimini area, passionate about various art forms (theater, visual arts, performance, video, music, public art…) and with a great desire to demolish boundaries.
GoDEEP is to go deep, to investigate in the dark undergrowth of cities, “where light and darkness clash,” to intercept and involve outsider inhabitants/guests of a liquid territory, in continuous transformation, such as Rimini and its vast hinterland… The workshop lasts 10 intense days, comparable to a real cohabitation in the complex of the former Astoria cinema: a huge multiplex cinema built in the 1970s and closed for about 10. A ghost on the city’s first outskirts that we inhabited and attempted to resurrect…furiously!
GoDEEP is to delve into the dark, to measure oneself with one’s fears, insecurities and inconsistencies… But also with one’s most hidden desires, with “what moves in the shadows,” which is then a definition of the Erinyes, mythological female figures, “baleful offspring of the night,” “clouds that bring storm,” whom we chose as the image-guide of our journey.
The workshop, divided into several working tables, is curated together with Andreco, a visual artist whose artistic sign moves between environmental engineering and street art, and has as its main theme the relationship between man-nature, urban space and landscape, through the use of various techniques, from drawing to painting, from installation to video, up to the creation of large-scale murals and site-specific public art projects.
It is a multifaceted atelier, with activities on several fronts: installations and performances in various spaces of the ex-Cinema, but also collective training towards the creation of a viral propagation core, which crosses, cuts, wounds the public space of the city, until converging in a big night parade – “designed” by Andreco – for the closing of the Santarcangelo Festival, as a “propitiatory rite for new beginnings.”
GoDEEP is also a propulsive and propositional engine for a theoretical research activity centered on the redefinition and reuse of public spaces as invisible stages of modernity, which will continue for the following years by going on to intercept other related European experiences. The atelier is interspersed with several public meetings on the theme of refounding art institutions, curated by Silvia Bottiroli (artistic director of Santarcangelo Festival 2015) and Marzia Dalfini (illustrator and graphic designer), for the drafting of a BLACK_MANIFESTO of intent [Eventful Darkness] towards the hybrid management of this future space and by other guests in the process of being defined.
The workshop is thus a gesture of political imagination for the future management of the ex-cinema Astoria: a writing from below, visionary, with utopian tips, conceived precisely to give listening and participation to those who usually enjoy places without ever experiencing them as their own, as “common goods,” a call to resistance, autonomy, appropriation and change.
