Projects

IF A CITY IS SITUATED ON A HEIGHT
Desidumancy workshop

Curated by
Ariell Zéphyr
Greta di Poce
Valerio Pastorelli

“If a city is situated on a height” is a performative work in the form of a workshop.

The project is conceived as a biennial nomadic workshop that ideally takes place during each new moon, the moon that confuses desire, according to the Marseille tarot.
The work is conceived as an act of divination of the participants’ desires, literally a “desidumanzia”: de (lack) sidus (stars) manzia (divination).

Participants develop a speculative praxis by sharing their desires and materializing the costumes of future humans in the present.
The entire creative process is imbued with the concept of “minoritarian concrete utopia.”(MCU)

The workshop is divided into two phases, each lasting 3 days: in the first phase, discussions, games, and activities are organized to stimulate joy, complicity, and intimacy among the participants.

Here, the confrontation in expressing desires is born, where each participant imagines their future self. In the second phase, there is no organization: everything changes based on the participants, expressed individual desires, the city, and the people we work with.
This allows for the spontaneity of a collective “minoritarian becoming.”

Each participant will develop a practice that will be included in the Encyclopedia of the customs and habits of future humans and will be shared.

It’s the beginning of an intimate and collective escape route.