II Edition – July 14 to 26, 2023
Santa Caterina di Nardò (Lecce)
Theme: Genius Loci: the spirit of place and time. Artists are asked to transform themselves, to open up to new dawns and to search within the metaphor of space and time for the path that leads to their destiny. An initiatory journey between the ancient and modern worlds that will see them as protagonists, like flaneurs, pioneers, emigrants, pilgrims, and explorers, in search of their destiny.
International artists in residency: Nena Cirkovic (Serbia) | Gen Doy (United Kingdom) | Philine-Johanna Kempf (Germany) | Elisabeth Jankowski (Germany) | Jane Toby (United States) | Dena Haden (United States) | Dorothea Marcus (United States) | Allison McElroy (United States) | Maeve Maurer (United States) | Anthony Kyle Rotelli (United States) | Elizabeth Sher (United States).
Apulian artists in dialogue: Adriano D’Ostuni | Carla Corona | Monica Lisi | Claudio Longo | Sean Price | Claudio Rizzo | Massimo Ruiu | Salvatore Sava | Fernando Spano| Paola Crisostomo | Alberto Nick Bolettieri.
Shamanism
- Paola Crisostomo – group ceremony in nature.
Activities
- Meeting between artists and curator.
- Philine-Johanna Kempf – Sound performance in the Basilic of Saint Catherine in Galatina.
- Philine-Johanna Kempf – “Voices” – Performance at the Capelvenere Cave in Porto Selvaggio.
Workshop
- Dores Sacquegna – Experimental printmaking techniques.
Symbols and places on a magical itinerary
- Santa Caterina: Le Cenate – Eclectic villas.
- Porto Selvaggio Regional Park (Capelvenere Cave, tower, Belvedere, park and Uluzzo Bay.
- Santa Maria al Bagno :Jewish Museum.
- Galatina: Basilica of Saint Catherine, Tarantism Museum, Chapel of Saint Paul.
- Castro: Temple of Athena, Zinzulusa Cave.
- Otranto: Cathedral, Bauxite cave
- Giurdignano: Crypt of San Salvatore, Trappitello del Duca Hypogeum, Megalithic Garden.
- Giuggianello: The Old Woman’s rocks.
- Nardò: old city and Museum of Prehistory.
- Gallipoli: old city
Final event July 5
- Contemporary art exhibition of works by resident artists and artists in dialogue.
- Ritual circle – “The revealed place” with Paola Crisostomo.
- Alberto “Nick” Bolettieri – “Vibrations of percussive breath: the revealed sound”, sound performance.
II Edition – July 14 to 26, 2023
Santa Caterina di Nardò (Lecce)
Theme: Genius Loci: the spirit of place and time. Artists are asked to transform themselves, to open up to new dawns and to search within the metaphor of space and time for the path that leads to their destiny. An initiatory journey between the ancient and modern worlds that will see them as protagonists, like flaneurs, pioneers, emigrants, pilgrims, and explorers, in search of their destiny.
International artists in residency: Nena Cirkovic (Serbia) | Gen Doy (United Kingdom) | Philine-Johanna Kempf (Germany) | Elisabeth Jankowski (Germany) | Jane Toby (United States) | Dena Haden (United States) | Dorothea Marcus (United States) | Allison McElroy (United States) | Maeve Maurer (United States) | Anthony Kyle Rotelli (United States) | Elizabeth Sher (United States).
Apulian artists in dialogue: Adriano D’Ostuni | Carla Corona | Monica Lisi | Claudio Longo | Sean Price | Claudio Rizzo | Massimo Ruiu | Salvatore Sava | Fernando Spano| Paola Crisostomo | Alberto Nick Bolettieri.
Shamanism
- Paola Crisostomo – group ceremony in nature.
Activities
- Meeting between artists and curator.
- Philine-Johanna Kempf – Sound performance in the Basilic of Saint Catherine in Galatina.
- Philine-Johanna Kempf – “Voices” – Performance at the Capelvenere Cave in Porto Selvaggio.
Workshop
- Dores Sacquegna – Experimental printmaking techniques.
Symbols and places on a magical itinerary
- Santa Caterina: Le Cenate – Eclectic villas.
- Porto Selvaggio Regional Park (Capelvenere Cave, tower, Belvedere, park and Uluzzo Bay.
- Santa Maria al Bagno :Jewish Museum.
- Galatina: Basilica of Saint Catherine, Tarantism Museum, Chapel of Saint Paul.
- Castro: Temple of Athena, Zinzulusa Cave.
- Otranto: Cathedral, Bauxite cave
- Giurdignano: Crypt of San Salvatore, Trappitello del Duca Hypogeum, Megalithic Garden.
- Giuggianello: The Old Woman’s rocks.
- Nardò: old city and Museum of Prehistory.
- Gallipoli: old city
Final event July 5
- Contemporary art exhibition of works by resident artists and artists in dialogue.
- Ritual circle – “The revealed place” with Paola Crisostomo.
- Alberto “Nick” Bolettieri – “Vibrations of percussive breath: the revealed sound”, sound performance.
