Minimal Intervention – Stalker (Giulia Fiocca and Lorenzo Romito)
The spontaneous renaturalization process of the reservoir designed by Ungers and reduced to ruins is the epicenter of the intervention we propose. This intervention aims to understand and foster the evolution of this emerging ecosystem. A collaborative effort aimed at celebrating and caring for this ecosystem together with the community, thus proposing an alliance between human and nonhuman in regenerating the natural and urban environment of Gibellina.
The goal will be to bring the community closer to understanding and caring for the lake, in an effort to save it from neglect and deforestation, and to make it the catalyst for a process of regenerating the relationship between residents and the land. A grassroots laboratory that addresses the ongoing ecological crisis and the social transformations required to live with it.
The entire process leading to the project's realization will also be a transdisciplinary training program open to residents, universities, and interested research institutions.
The proposal is in continuity with the work that Stalker has been carrying out for years alongside communities in the care and defense of emerging ecosystems that have arisen in the ruins of modernity in Rome (Lake Bullicante, Mercati Generali, etc.).
The project draws on the experiences of Danilo Dolci (Diga dello Jato), Lucius Burckhardt (Intervento Minimo) and Joseph Beuys (Difesa della Natura) and is dedicated to Ludovico Corrao who commissioned Stalker perhaps his most beautiful work: the Tappeto Volante.
Appointment Calendar – Gibellina Nuova:
- 2nd LAKE ASSEMBLY: Thursday, May 7, 6:00 PM. Meet at Viale Empedocle 7.
- June 6th and 7th: LET'S CLEAN UP THE LAKE!
6 e 7 giugno: RIPULIAMO IL LAGO!
- June 6, 9:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.: Cleanup with the children of the San Francesco school. Meet at Viale Empedocle, in front of the Epicentro Belice museum.
- June 7, 5:00-8:00 PM: An invitation to Gibellina residents to participate in a collective lake cleanup. 3rd LAKE ASSEMBLY, 8:00 PM: to share proposals for depaving, creating a ring road, and planting, to be presented to the Municipal Administration and Gibellina Capitale. Meet at Viale Empedocle, in front of the Epicentro Belice museum.
Stalker RESIDENCE
Minimal Intervention – Stalker (Giulia Fiocca and Lorenzo Romito): Defending Nature – The Lake, from mirage to emerging ecosystem
presents
Dodecameron Stalker
12 midsummer nights, dreaming of future possibilities between city and nature
Convivial gatherings for listening, observation, and expression amidst art, nature, and the community around Lake Gibellina
From June 23rd to July 16th, every Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday from 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM
Presentation on June 22nd at 7:00 PM
Meeting point: Viale Empedocle, in front of the Epicentro Belice Museum
For information: labstalker@gmail.com
PLAN:
1st week
- Gibellina is a butterfly.
June 23, 24, 25, 7:00 PM – 10:00 PM.
Observe, interact, draw
Drawing workshop with Alterales and Matuesz Dalla Torre, artists of natural environments
Sharing and implementing a method of designing with nature through drawing to create a map of the butterfly city.
Meet at Viale Empedocle, in front of the Belice Epicentro Museum - Feast of St. John
June 23, 7:00 PM – 11:00 PM
Midsummer Night's Concert
2nd week
- Walk around the lake to discover plants and their stories
with Giuliano Fanelli, urban ecologist, Department of Environmental Biology, Sapienza University of Rome
June 30, 7:00 PM
The walk will allow participants to learn not only about the species existing on the site, but also about the type of ecosystem they are developing, so they can understand their evolutionary paths and possible human support strategies for the renaturation process.
Meet at Viale Empedocle, in front of the Belice Epicentro Museum - Cities as Ecosystems
Lecture by Giuliano Fanelli, urban ecologist, Department of Environmental Biology, Sapienza University of Rome.
July 1, 7:00 PM
at the Belice Epicentro Museum - 4th Lake Assembly
July 2, 7:00 PM
All citizens are invited to the Lake Assembly.
We continue our activities or appointments at the lake.
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