The series of talks constituted a dialectical corollary to the exhibition Land Flag: from Waste to new Materials curated by Andrea Caputo, which addresses the issue of sustainability from a different interpretation of materials, whether they are a waste derivation, or a new generation. Taking a holistic stance for the representation of the present, the guests told firsthand as many new, viable and sustainable ways to revisit-and consequently rethink-the personal and collective connection we have with our Earth.
In recent times it has often been heard that it is easier to assume the end of the world than the end of capitalism. On a grand scale, the imperative “there is no alternative” has insinuated a kind of collective panic that focuses on the dramatic data affecting the planet, and the related human impact on the environmental issues plaguing the Earth.
But what is the scale of the change taking place? what is being broadcast by the media correspond to real vision? Through what reversals, whether behavioral, systemic, or perceptual, can a more holistic and multifaceted destiny be told or imagined, where the coexistence of humans, no-humans, cosmos, and technology can contribute to the formation of an active and sustainable model?
Beatrice Leanza, Barbara Mazzolai, Alex Bellini, Elise By Olsen, Vittorio Cosma and Fabio Peri told of a specific relationship and interaction with the Planet, such as the observation of oceans, the behavior of plants, the positioning of the Earth in interstellar time and space, and production understood as the constant elaboration of matter.