This edition wanted to involve not only the experts but all citizens in a reflection on the relationship between art, politics and territory.
The first stage of this year was the exhibition Syrian Anonymous Exhibition, a special project curated by the french curator Delphine Leccas and presented for the first time in Italy.
The project aims to reflect the status of the Syrian's young art scene: activist, anonymous and collective that spreads virally online and in social networks which helps to give the younger generation a platform of extraordinary creative freedom in which the selected artists will present their work in order to illustrate and comment the current political and social Syrian's situation.
La Ville Ouverte, this year at its second edition, is a multidisciplinary project that aims to re-read the public space and the dynamics associated with it.
The issue faced by La Ville Ouverte, through conferences and lectures that will run in a self-built space in collaboration with Escuela Moderna / Ateneo libertario, concerns the structural lack of public spaces related to art and culture, and the critic role of art in the contemporary city. Starting from the starting point of the Santiago Sierra's project 1000 Carteles Negros posted in the city of Viterbo, the workshop aims to reflect on the reappropriation of public space through art platforms in terms of interaction and contamination with and among citizens. The passive role of the viewer is therefore canceled to trigger circuits of civic activism and aesthetic within the city. In this sense, also the places of marginalization and difficulty of the city can play a major role in reversing the destiny and the meaning of living space.
Relational temporary space will be built with the participation of students and citizens, with Off Grid elements of social ecology.
The project 1000 Carteles Negros, by the Spanish artist Santiago Sierra, as well as invade the spaces of the city, for two weeks will be also a constant presence on advertising billboards usually entrusted to commercial advertising. Signs of radical opposition to ordinary communication, black posters, represent the complaint of a blackout of communication and today's political and social situation.
Prospectus is finally an exhibition that aims to develop a series of reflections on the relationship between art and anarchy concerning the historical, formal and conceptual issues, which more or less explicitly, are based at the thought of the artist.
At Biancovolta, the work of artists will concerns issues related to the history, work, marginalization, property, social and institutional's critic, proposing practices of subversion and imagining libertarian's grammars.
