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 . MANIFESTA 12 16.06.2018- 04.11.2018 Istituto Padre Messina Caletta Sant Erasmo Palermo, (Sicily) GOOGLE MAPS NEW PALERMO FELICISSIMA Palermo is an exemplary case in the way rich and active forms of street life are empowered in Mediterranean cities. Today this capacity of public space to accommodate inclusive urban scenes is being challenged by tourism, redevelopment and public policing. Jordi Colomer presents here, New Palermo Felicissima, a new work commissioned by Manifesta12, based on his encounter with a specific part of the city: Porticciolo Sant’ Erasmo. Placed at the back side of Palermo’s historical center, in an unseemingly proximity to it, Porticciolo Sant’Erasmo comprises an amalgam of old buildings, partially abandoned historical remains, along with informal constructions, housing compounds, a small beach, infrastructures, a breakwater and a dock for small ships. A place from which it is possible to look towards Palermo’s southern periphery, a part of the city’s coast that for many years has been ecologically neglected, unsung by public authorities and omitted in tourist guides. Porticciolo Sant’ Erasmo is yet the center of a small community of fishermen, that for generations have inhabited the place and that currently face announced evolutions of this part of the city that would jeopardize the future of their activities. New Palermo Felicissima, results of Colomer’s collaboration with students from Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia of Palermo, the fishermen community of Sant’ Erasmo and La Cala. It is composed of a video installation that shows the journey through Palermo’s South Coast of a transformed fishing boat. The transformation of the boat renders it an ambiguous object, a hybrid of a tourist ship, an observatory and a discussion parlor. Actress Laura Weissmahr, admits her lack of insight on Palermo’s territories, as a text by the Palermitan writer Roberto Alajmo is transmitted to her from a distant location. A constellation of boats accompanies the transformed boat, as a secular version of the annual procession of Santa Rosalia, patron and protector of Palermo. As an alternative heterogeneous Palermitan society, this group of boats and people visit a number of "monuments", as Robert Smithson would refer to found locations recalling past presences and entropy (such as the famous Restaurant « L’approdo da Renato », closed thirty years ago now, the Auto-Salone Zeus and the soccer court « Mondo Jeans », where flowers grow in-between the remaining debris discharged on the site during the so called "sacco di Palermo"), that constitute,not without humour, the focus of this procession as an alternative way to envisioning and relating to Palermo.  New Palermo Felicissima. Jordi Colomer, 2018. Installation view at Istituto Padre Messina, Manifesta 12. Palermo. NEW PALERMO FELICISSIMA
2018 Jordi COLOMER video 21 min, 16:9, loop, Stereo, master 4K. In collaboration with the students of Centro Sperimentale Di Cinematografia (Sede Sicilia): Text by: Roberto Alajmo
The Guide: Laura Weissmahr
Voice Over: Lorella Aiosa
Fisherman´s from Porticciolo Sant Erasmo, and La Cala (Palermo): Giuseppe Menza Antonino Morana Giuseppe Romeo Salvatore Parise Salvatore Sinagra Antonino Sinagra Antonino Tarantino Rosario Tarantino Francesco Tinnirello
Travelers: Alessandra Cascio Alessandro Quartararo Ambra Manisalo Antonio Marcello Bah Thierno Bianca Maria Fasiolo Billé Giosué Chiara Daniele Claudia Latino Claudia Mastroroberto Dario Fedele Davide Puca Dinh Thi Tung Lam Eliza Collin Emanuele Greco Eugenio de Rosa Francesca Jaurilio Francesca Verga Francesco Tinnirello Frediano Camnizzoro Gioachinno Lanza Tomasi Giovanni Catania Giovanni Seminara Giuseppa Scalici Haayar Luo Irene Oliveri Juan Duarte Mateos Koiya Ihor Li Yan Lore Domenico Lorella Libeccio Magda Pignataro Marcello Aronica Nizar Piccolo Noemí Giacalome Roberto Collovà Salvatore Sinagra Simonetta Faraone Sofi M. Giulia Tatiana Tarragó Valentina Mango Valentina Vara Verastella Correnti Vero Mornino Vincenzo Cataldo Violeta Bataglini Vito Priolo
Line Production Director: Carolina Olivares, (CO producciones)
Line Production assistant: Marta Violante
Technical Production: Benedetta Valabrega
Executive Production: Carlo Coppola (Manifesta 12)
Director of photography: Dorian Degoutte
Camera operators: Alessandro Drudi Simone Gambelli Federico Savonitto Basilio Maritano
Camera Assistants: Camila Lannetti Virginia Nardelli Pietro Librizzi Danny Biancardi
Sound: Mirko Cangiamila
Sound assistants: Andrea Mafrica Sebastiano Caceffo
Set construction: Massimo Catalano
Media Manager: Marta Violante
Driver: Rosario Minervini
Editing: Jordi Colomer Dorian Degoutte
Sound editor and sound mixing: Danilo Romancino (Almendra Music, Palermo)
Subtitles Babelfisch translations
Commissioned by Manifesta 12 Palermo,
Maria Chiara di Trapani, Istituto Padre Giovanni Messina (Palermo), Centro Sperimentale Di Cinematografia (Sede Sicilia), Tatiana Tarragó, Vito Priolo, all fishermen from Caletta Sant Erasmo and from la Cala (Palermo), |