Conflitti. Arti contemporanee e mutamento sociale
Panel Discussion/Exhibition- Friday 21th September h. 17.00
Florence - Cantieri Goldonetta, via Santa Maria 25

Which are the places of conflict nowadays? How do individuals live the situations of inner and social conflict? How can conflict nowadays be regarded as mean of social change? Is there a connection between artistic practices and social change? Is it possible to think of artistic practices as catalyst, source of energy and important resource for social change without confining them to a deterministic and accessory role? How much of this work, the work of re-description, of the writing of the borders, of putting into action practices which are deviant and produce new social customs is itself the form of social change of the present days? How much of the character of contemporary artistic practices, which are projecting and contextual, is part of the stock and of the chances of the current forms of action to produce social criticism in a wide sense? The round table in Florence is thought of as introductory step, but already thematic, of the whole course which the partakers in the project Integration and Conflict - Networking 2007 are going to face during the workshops in the seven tuscan towns involved. In the spaces of Cantieri Goldonetta works and experiences will be introduced, which, starting from different backgrounds, relate to the different contexts of the present day social conflict and of the social change, in new and never used before ways.There will be the presence of the director Roberto Burchielli, who will introduce his movie-documentary Status of fear - clash among cizilizations made in Padua in the district of Via Anelli; Gianna Maschiti, sociologist of education and educationalist in jails; Francesca Manuelli, authoress of Le Piagge - History of a district without history; Giancarlo Cauteruccio, stage-manager, founder of the company Krypton; Marco Bontempi, teacher of sociology of change and of sociology of globalization at the University of Florence; the artist Mario Rizzi, who will show his unpublished work Hanadi (2007, '10) made during his stay in Palestina.