Events of the project
Index
• Conference “Dialogues across the Seas. Ecosystems, cultures, arts, and data”, Salt Museum (MuSa), Cervia
June 24, 2025
• “LABA for the Cervia Salt Pan,” MUSA (Salt Museum), Cervia
July 5-12th, 2024
• Panel “The ocean that keeps us apart also joins us: charting knowledge and practice in the Anthropocene”
Montreal, May 19-24, 2020 (postponed to October 13-18 because of the COVID-19 pandemic), ISEA 2020• Dal Mediterraneo al Pacifico. Dialoghi attraverso i mari / From the Mediterranean to the Pacific. Dialogues across the seas
Cervia, July 27-28th, 2018
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• June 24, 2025 Conference “Dialogues across the Seas. Ecosystems, cultures, arts, and data”, Salt Museum (MuSa), Cervia The emergence of complex global and simultaneously local issues related to the climate crisis has brought to the forefront the themes of the environment, “nature,” and the “sustainability” of human activities. Even marine environments, intimately connected to life, are deeply affected by these changes. “Dialogues across the Seas” aims to raise awareness about the transformation of marine ecosystems through events that promote an interdisciplinary dialogue between the arts and climate disciplines. Artistic disciplines can contribute to raising awareness of these issues by providing narratives, ideas, and visions useful for facing the future. Art can facilitate the transformations of this epochal transition, the paradigm shift that human cultures must face.“Dialogues across the Seas” is an open project that involves participants from various parts of the world. Born in Cervia in 2018, it has been presented nationally and internationally and has produced some publications in English and Italian that have contributed to the international discussion, anticipating the “Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development 2021-2030,” an initiative supported by the United Nations.The climate crisis, marine life and marine ecosystems, and the health of people and environments are global issues that require attention, knowledge, and broad participation, and at the same time, they are complex situations that must consider and integrate many viewpoints and different cultural perspectives.To discuss it, on Tuesday, June 24 at 9:00 PM, the Councillors of the Municipality of Cervia Federica Bosi (Culture) and Mirko Boschetti (Economic Activities), the President of the Cervia Salt Pan Giuseppe Pomicetti, along with project members Pier Luigi Capucci, Nina Czegledy, Roberta Buiani, and Elena Giulia Rossi, the President of AICA (International Association of Art Critics) Italy Gabriele Romeo, and via teleconference Mahutoa ‘Pasha’ Clothier (artist, teacher, curator) from New Zealand and Tracey M. Benson (artist, researcher, founder of Treecreate) from Australia will participate. The speeches will be published later.“Dialogues across the Seas” is sponsored by the Complexity Festival in Rome, AICA (Association Internationale des Critiques d’Art) Italy, Noema, ArtSci Salon and art*science, as well as the institutional partners Municipality of Cervia, Salt Museum, and Cervia Saltpan. “Dialogues across the Seas” is part of the events celebrating 25 years of activity of Noema, an online magazine on the relationships among culture, technology, science, and society. |
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• May 8, 2025 The project “Dialogues across the Seas” was presented in a panel at the XXIV edition of Festival Internacional de la Imagen, in Manizales, Colombia On May 8th, the project “Dialogues across the Seas” was presented in a panel at the alla XXIV edition of Festival Internacional de la Imagen, in Manizales, Colombia. Nina Czegledy and Roberta Buiani were present, while Tracey M. Benson, Pasha Mahuto’oa Clothier, Elena Giulia Rossi and myself intervened via video. The meeting was also available in streaming.The title of the 24th edition of the festival was “Re:generative”:The theme of the 24th edition is “Re:generative,” a concept that relates to the sustainability of living species. In a context of profound changes and transformations, the regenerative emerges as an alternative to restore, renew, or rebuild lost or invisible memories. From the perspective of sustainability, it implies thinking about actions that ensure survival as a vital matter for its re-existence.The video with all the presentations can be seen here: |
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• July 2024 Publication of the 2nd English edition of eBook Dialogues across the seas: the ocean that keeps us apart also joins us. Charting knowledge and practice in the Anthropocene, Ravenna, Noema, 2024 Texts by Pasha Ian Clothier, Nina Czegledy, Roberta Buiani, Pier Luigi Capucci, Enzo Guarnieri, Tracey M. Benson, Freddy Paul Grunert, Elena Giulia Rossi, Mario Savini, Franco Torriani, Giorgio CipollettaISBN: 978-88-943827-6-1This is the second English edition of the eBook Dialogues across the Seas. The Ocean that keeps us apart also joins us. Charting knowledge and practice in the Anthropocene. This second edition is updated and is enriched by the contributions of new authors. In 2022 the first Italian edition was published.The “art*science – Art & Climate Change” research program aims to create a constructive transdisciplinary dialogue on topics that are very popular but also controversial, like “green”, “sustainability”, re-using and recycling, alternative and renewable energies, the environment as habitat, the idea of “Nature”… Today a fundamental field of research on climate concerns the state and evolution of the seas and the oceans, on which the United Nations has published a report6 and stated the “Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (2021-2030)”. We are glad to contribute in the discussion on these topics with this publication, whose contents have anticipated those programs thanks to the foresight of the people who participated in the above events and collabo- rated in this project. This new English edition updates the contents of the first one, published in 2022, and adds some new contributions. |
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• July 5-12, 2024 “LABA for the Cervia Salt Pan,” MUSA (Salt Museum), Cervia From July 5th to July 12th, 2024, the original exhibition by the Free Academy of Fine Arts in Rimini on the themes of salt and the Cervia Salt Pan will take place at MUSA, the Salt Museum in Cervia.The exhibition features projects developed by students from various courses, ranging from posters to artifacts, as well as the conceptual design and realization of the original bamboo installation for the thematic exhibition, which will be on display at the Cervia Salt Museum for one week.During the “Exhibition Design” course, in collaboration with MUSA and the Salina Park, the project embraced interdisciplinary knowledge, interconnectedness across different fields, and the practical aspects of art exhibition. A total of 90 students from Fashion 3, Design 2, and Design 3 courses, guided by Professor Cristina Fiordimela, collaboratively produced 35 original projects on this theme.On July 5th at 9:00 PM, the exhibition will open with a project presentation. The event will be attended by Cervia’s Mayor Mattia Missiroli, the Culture and Education Councilor Federica Bosi, the Academy’s President Prof. Massimo Marra, the Director Prof. Pier Luigi Capucci, Prof. Cristina Fiordimela (the instructor for the participating courses), the President of the Salina Park Giuseppe Pomicetti, and MUSA’s Director Dr. Annalisa Canali.Last year, the devastation that affected the Cervia Salt Pan and the damage to its natural and productive heritage were so significant that leading cultural and institutional agencies mobilized to support its recovery and revival. In this context, the exhibition will serve as an important platform for raising awareness and appreciation of the Salt Pan. It will be of great interest to see how the students of the Academy have interpreted, imagined, and conceptualized the territory and the anthropological-naturalistic connections it entails. Their intense interest in the city’s history, archaeological discoveries, traditions, and the productive and thermal context was not only creative and cognitive but also emotional.www.musa.comunecervia.it www.comunecervia.it www.turismo.comunecervia.it |
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• March 2023 Publication of the Italian edition of Dialogues eBook: Dialoghi attraverso i mari. Il mare che ci separa, ci unisce. Tracciare conoscenza e pratica nell’Antropocene, Ravenna, Noema, 2023 Texts by Pasha Ian Clothier, Nina Czegledy, Pier Luigi Capucci, Roberta Buiani, Freddy Paul Grunert, Mario Savini, Giorgio Cipolletta, Elena Giulia Rossi, Franco Torriani, Vincenzo GuarnieriISBN: 978-88-943827-5-4The Italian edition of the eBook Dialogues across the seas. The ocean that keep us apart also join us, entitled Dialoghi attraverso i mari. Il mare che ci separa, ci unisce. Tracciare conoscenza e pratica nell’Antropocene, has been published. The English version is present in the Readings section of “Resonances”, a European project by SciArt. The Italian edition is not just a simple translation of the contents of the original English version, but it has been enriched by texts on the subject from some new authors. Our interest in the topics of the sea has anticipated the “Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (2021-2030)” promulgated by the UN (in Italian the “Decennio del Mare”), and we should be proud of it. |
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• March 2022 Publication of the eBook Dialogues across the seas: the ocean that keeps us apart also joins us. Charting knowledge and practice in the Anthropocene, Ravenna, Noema, 2022 Texts by Pasha Ian Clothier, Nina Czegledy, Pier Luigi Capucci, Roberta Buiani, Mario Savini, Giorgio Cipolletta, Elena Giulia RossiISBN 978-88-943827-1-6This publication is about two events on the impact of the climate crisis on the seas and the marine environments. The first one was entitled “From the Mediterranean to the Pacific. Dialogues across the seas”, and took place on July 27-28, 2018, in Cervia, a coastal city nearby Ravenna where the Po Valley ends in the northern Adriatic Sea. Cervia is located in one of the most critical areas at risk of submersion in Italy: the sea level could rise from 315 to 1535 mm by 2100. The event in Cervia was made in collaboration with “Vital Transformations”, a series of events on art and climate change taking place simultaneously in New Plymouth, New Zealand. This collaboration set up an ideal bridge across two remote maritime venues – Cervia and New Plymouth – geographically located at almost the opposite sides on Earth but interested and linked by a common issue, the rising of the sea level: the climate emergency is both a local and global issue.The second event was the panel “The ocean that keeps us apart also joins us: charting knowledge and practice in the Anthropocene”, that due to the COVID-19 pandemic took place online at ISEA 2020 “Why Sentience?” on October 14th, 2020, in Montreal. The panel, introduced by a 40 minutes video with all the speeches, presented and discussed internationally the topics of the event in Cervia adding new perspectives. Among them the collaboration across hemispheres of Earth in the context of environment, the intergenerational relevance of the climate issues, the importance of the indigenous peoples’ knowledge beyond the Western conceptions, and the necessity to reshape the language as a result of these viewpoints and their influence on the creative and social practices.The “art*science – Art & Climate Change” research program aims to create a constructive transdisciplinary dialogue on topics that are very popular but also controversial, like “green”, “sustainability”, re-using and recycling, alternative and renewable energies, the environment as habitat, the idea of “Nature”… Today a fundamental field of research on climate concerns the state and evolution of the seas and the oceans, on which the United Nations has published a report and stated the “Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (2021-2030)”. We are glad to contribute to the discussion on these topics with this publication, whose contents have anticipated those programs. |
• Montreal, May 19-24, 2020 (postponed to October 13-18 because of the COVID-19 pandemic), ISEA 2020
Panel “The ocean that keeps us apart also joins us: charting knowledge and practice in the Anthropocene”
The event “From the Mediterranean to the Pacific. Dialogues across the seas” (Cervia, Museum of Salt, July 2018) give birth to the panel “The ocean that keeps us apart also joins us: charting knowledge and practice in the Anthropocene”, curated by Nina Czegledy, Ian Clothier, Roberta Buiani, Elena Giulia Rossi and Pier Luigi Capucci, which participates in ISEA 2020 in Montreal.
The panel consist of five experts who have collaborated across hemispheres of Earth in the context of environment. Collaboration has become increasingly common over the past 15 years, to now being a pre-eminent form of creative practice. Over the same period, the human connection to climate change has moved from being predominantly known in academia, to a situation where the climate crisis is widely acknowledged intergenerationally and across most mass media. This development has forced a revision of knowledge and theory, led to engagement with indigenous peoples and new sites for projects. The notion of the constitution of a sentient human being has changed, in particular moving out of solely Western conceptions. These forces have led to an activist re-orientation in creative practice, with ramifications for art, society, humanity and Earth which together lead to a re-shaping of language.
ISEA 2020 program:
https://isea2020.isea-international.org/isea2020-online-program/
The video of the panel with all the presentations:
• Cervia, July 27-28th, 2018
Dal Mediterraneo al Pacifico. Dialoghi attraverso i mari / From the Mediterranean to the Pacific. Dialogues across the seas
July 27th 2018 in Cervia (Ravenna, Italy), at the MUSA (Salt Museum), in the realm of the art*science – Art & Climate Change project. Curated by Pier Luigi Capucci and Roberta Buiani, in collaboration with Nina Czegledy and with the participation of Ian Clothier. Talks have been followed by a guided tour of Cervia Saltpan. A video conference concluded the event late at night, in collaboration with “Vital Transformations”, a series of events on art and climate change taking place simultaneously in New Plymouth, New Zealand, curated by Pasha Ian Clothier. This event sets the link between two maritime venues (Cervia and New Plymouth) geographically located almost at opposite sides on Earth.
Here all the information on the events:
https://artscience.online/2018/07/18/dal-mediterraneo-al-pacifico-dialoghi-attraverso-i-mari-from-the-mediterranean-to-the-pacific-dialogues-across-the-seas/
Elaine Whittaker, Roberta Buiani, Creare e distruggere: riflessioni sul sale / Creating and Destroying: Salty reflections, Mixed Media, 2018
https://artscience.online/2018/07/25/987/
Giorgio Cipolletta, Anthropocene, Mixed Media, 2018
https://artscience.online/2018/07/29/anthropocene/
More pictures of the events here:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/112198456@N08/albums/72157697967127811/with/43716791581
The art*science – Art & Climate Change project gave birth to three more events:
• Rome, December 11, 2018
Alla ricerca dei dati / Looking for Data
Transdisciplinary meeting/round table between art and science to reflect on current climate change, the data that delineate the contemporary landscape, and, from the aerial dimension of the atmosphere to the ephemeral dimension of the numbers, the data have the power to reach the territory and its inhabitants
Curated by Elena Giulia Rossi and Pier Luigi Capucci
RUFA Space – Rome University of Fine Arts
in the context of HER: She Loves S. Lorenzo, first district festival dedicated to data, by Salvatore Iaconesi and Oriana Persico
Here the information on the event:
https://artscience.online/2018/11/27/alla-ricerca-dei-dati-looking-for-data/
https://artscience.online/2018/12/22/alla-ricerca-dei-dati-un-resoconto-looking-for-data-a-report/
Some pictures of the event:
https://artscience.online/2018/12/16/alcune-immagini-dellevento-di-roma-some-pictures-of-rome-event/
• Urbino, May 7 – 10, 2019
One Community / More Responsibilities
Fine Arts Academy of Urbino, in the realm of Guarda Lontano #15 – conference and workshop
Curated by Marcello Signorile and Pier Luigi Capucci
Here the information on the event:
https://artscience.online/2019/04/29/one-community-more-responsibility/
Some pictures of the event:
https://artscience.online/2019/05/19/foto-da-one-community-more-responsibility-pictures-from-one-community-more-responsibility/
• Bologna, May 11, 2019
Cambiamenti climatici e paure collettive / Climate Change and Collective Fears
Costarena, in the realm of the Festival of Complexity
Curated by Simonetta Simoni
Here the information on the event:
https://artscience.online/2019/05/08/cambiamenti-climatici-e-paure-collettive/