La lingua è migrante. Le parole si spostano da una lingua all’altra, da una cultura all’altra, da una bocca all’altra. I nostri corpi sono migranti; le cellule e i batteri lo sono anche. Anche le galassie migrano. Cecilia Vicuña
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A collaboration project between the artist Chada Halwani and Erratica, with the mediation of Marco Izzolino of L’Arsenale di Naples, is “Divagare e Dimorare” the two-day event that took place on June 29 and 30, 2024 in Albanella (Sa)
within the framework of the project “Erratica, collaborations at the Albanella hangar”, promoted by the General Directorate of Contemporary Creativity of the Ministry of Culture and developed by the Rareca Cultural Association with the collaboration of the Municipality of Albanella.
An event in which the Hangar Museo, a contemporary “sustainable” museum space between the Sele plain and the Cilentani mountains, will become a house and laboratory for artists and researchers.
The area’s artistic community comes into contact with international artists on the theme of migration, travel and community spirit. An opportunity to meet, talk and share practically.
And so Chada Halwani, a visible Lebanese artist who lives and works between Beirut and Berlin, has chosen Albanella to provide two days in which all – and all artists will call to present their own work – a creative practice, a reflection or an experience with the opportunity, not only to see the public, but also to open a discussion about shared practices, experiences of production, forms of exchange and collaboration, all with the help and mediation of Marco Izzolino from L’Arsenale di Naples who will help to find spaces and times for a collective narrative.
The two days are the conclusion of the days of “Erratica”, which usually take place at Albanella, in the months of May and June, and where artists and performers have been invited to use the spaces of the Museum as a place of work, confrontation, presentation, life.
A permanent laboratory for artistic experimentation, which in this case would become the home of the local artistic community and would see its own conclusion, with the two days organized by Chada Halwani.
At the heart of the Hangar Museum project, we remember that there is clearly a desire to launch and expand a new concept for a museum of the region: the museum is no longer designed as an architectural space in which to preserve objects and crafts, but a network of places connected to real life in which, if desired, the intangible cultural heritage of the region is to be divided.
The Hangar is not a museum in itself, as it represents the point of convergence and confrontation of many places in which the artistic community “from the body” is researching its own (schools, theaters, show rooms and concerts, libraries, archives, etc.).
The doors of the two days (June 29th and 30th) were open Saturday at 11:00 a.m. for arrivals and meetings, in the afternoon from 5:00 p.m. There was time and space to open discussions about practical work and family life, and the evening from 9:00 p.m. there will be a convivial moment of music and party to enjoy together. Sunday morning from 11:00 am there will be time and space for a real and private laboratory.