Marosi Festival is a project entirely curated by artists that aims to promote research in the body arts and in contemporary performing languages on Stromboli island and to create a synergistic relationship it.

The creative processes

The creative processes are the focus of the project: the “artisanal construction” of artistic work both in training and production. The practice of making orientates from time to time curatorial choices, it suggests methods, brings forward visions, provides techniques and pedagogies and establishes a specific relationship with the outside: the audience, the territory, the world.

Dance, performance and multidisciplinary experimentations are the tools to interrogate forms of relationship and interaction with a transformative space in continuous telluric settling. A volcanic territory entirely surrounded by water that constantly raises questions and challenges about its presence and existence. Hence, the question of how artistic research can produce knowledge based on innovation through the mechanisms and techniques of creative processes.

Interdisciplinarity of the projects

In addition to the activities address to artists, training courses and other activities are thought for non-professionals and children, moments of public participation and restitution able to capture and transmit the richness of the languages involved. Resonances to the outside, capable of offering perceptive and sensory paths, training the quality of the vision.
Resonances of the project on the island – and across the island – remains a primary objective for Marosi. What Marosi intends to generate, above all else, is the encounter.

Dance and performing arts are the pillar, the point from which to turn our gaze and ask questions.
After the first year with the 2017 edition – the work of creation and research has brought about the need to expand our objectives. We decided to open our project to other artistic areas in order to embrace an increasingly less sectoral vision, involving artists coming from photography, video and sound /music.

The different artistic languages relate to the process of creation in such a way that the questions raised by one act as a response to the other, in a stream of mutual enrichment, in a mutual questioning and answering. What does one have to learn from the other?

The project, thus, assumes a strongly interdisciplinary character.

“The encounter between two disciplines doesn’t take place when one begins to reflect on the other, but when one discipline realizes that it has to resolve, for itself and by its own means, a problem similar to one confronted by the other” G. Deleuze, “Qu’est-ce here l’acte de création, Conference 1987

Goals and General Purposes:

• Building a non-hierarchical work-space where the process of art making is a place of encounter, a place of production of knowledge and mutual exchange.
• Spreading the idea that training is not just a moment preceding work, but the starting point from which work is generated.
• Overcoming the prevailing logics of production, giving to artistic research the enough space and time to develop testing new modalities and strategies of production.
• Questioning collaboration and other collaborative and participatory approaches in the production of artistic work.
• Establishing a space where to test new ways of interaction between people, landscapes, visions and imaginaries.
• Reconsidering the hierarchy of the visible in the art world.
• Questioning the classical concept of a stable community to re-signify it starting from the challenges of modernity.