A international laboratory for site specific and sustainable performance art in Sicily

1. Trasformatorio
Southern Site-Specific Sustainable
Performance Lab

2. 5 W: What, Who, Where, When, Why
A node in the hack-media-performance residency
network
An open group of artists of all disciplines, designers,
electronic artists, theater makers, hackers...
Over the Sicilian mountains, 920 mt above sea level,
surrounded by nature, animals and people
Yearly: #0 April 2013, #1 April 20/May 4 2014...
I still have 29’...

3. •
To craft a different type of site specific performance
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that has to be set up in nature, in special and
archeological areas with maximum respect for
them
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invent and put to test strategies to self sustain
and spread open cultural approaches
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Utopian pragmatic approach to XXI century
poetry
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has respect for the environment
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in it’s own terms aims to the larger possible
audience

4. Situation trasformators
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Operative definition:
Space/Time/Motivation/Intention
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Setting (Psicologues, Shamans, Junkies)
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Morphic Field
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Tensegrity
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Permaculture
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Poetic Terrorism
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complex networks of ENS
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exchanging enthropy

6. Sustainability
Energy Efficiency
Economically efficient
Really connected with the cummunity (GLocal)
Utopian
Avantgarde (I will/will not expand the concept)

7. SOUTH

9. Montalbano Elicona
• Paese di 2500 abitanti alle porte
del parco dei monti Nebrodi
• 918 msl
• borgo medievale intatto inserito
nella lista dei 90 borghi d’italia
• Dominato da castello del XIII
secolo perfettamente restaurato
• Ricettivita e calma
• Parco Eolico
• Comune virtuoso
fbonelli@trasformatorio.net
Montalbano Elicona
North East of Sicily

11. Sicily
Volcanoes, Poeple, Wind, Woods, Sun, Food,
Laylines History and Sea.

16. Il Comune di Montalbano
• virtuous administration
• broke
• declining population
• surrounded by a big eolic park and a national
one
• has restored 50+ small houses in the
medieval village to be dedicated to support
cultural activities organised by the consorzio.
fbonelli@trasformatorio.net

17. fbonelli@trasformatorio.net

20. Forest

22. OK?

29. Arguments we are interested in for
Trasformatorio #1
fbonelli@trasformatorio.net

31. the open call for projects
will be out later today

33. further info:
www.trasformatorio.net
federico@trasformatorio.net
@trasformatorio
nb: facebook and all the use social and antisocial
ways...
if you google my name beware I am NOT the
classical dancer!