Third stage of “Ventidue” the editorial proposal promoted by the Municipality of Procida and the executive board of Procida Italian Capital of Culture 2022 to tell the story of the island through community projects.
The meeting between two different experiments: a biological study on the containment of the tiger mosquito and a sociological one on the representation, through art and new media technologies, of the sense of identity of a population, able to denote one in favor of the other in the name of dialogue between Art and Science, involving an entire community in an urban art movement, which has been able to disseminate and actively involve citizens in addressing an environmental and naturalistic problem.
It is the initiative “Open Science – Not Me but Us” promoted by the research group coordinated by Prof. Marco Salvemini, of the Laboratory of Genetics and Control of Insect Vectors of the Department of Biology of the Federico II University and the School of New Technologies of Art of the Academy of Fine Arts of Naples, protagonist of the third mockumentary of the cycle “Ventidue” the journey curated by Nuvola TV and Procida TV in the community projects of the program of the Italian Capital of Culture 2022, promoted by the Municipal Administration of the island and the executive board of Procida Italian Capital of Culture. The publication, Friday 22 July at 20:22 on the YouTube channel of the local television (@procidatv)
A social process that has been able to activate the participation of citizens in the STOPTIGRE experiment, which seeks to limit the spread of the Asian tiger mosquito in Procida – a vector of human diseases – starting from the feeling of belonging through collective art actions, new urban visions and care for the territory, represented on chocolate bars offered as gifts to all those who, by voluntarily submitting themselves to the photographic sessions for the creation of collective mural works to be placed on the island and to that of image acquisitions for the scanning of small three-dimensional sculptures – a sort of visual census of the inhabitants – became aware of an environmental problem, to the solution of which they could contribute, by hosting in their gardens and orchards special traps – called gravitraps – capable of identifying, in relation to the mass, the presence of male specimens of the tiger mosquito species (smaller in size than females) to subsequently start a sterilization process.
In the role of one of the totem-statues to tell the story of the One and the Other, the scientist and the artist, there is Giuseppe Fedele, 26 years old, originally from Portici, a degree in Modern Literature and a professional actor with work and training experiences at important local institutions such as the Nuovo Teatro Sanità, the Baracca dei Buffoni, the Teatro Bellini and the Nouveau Théàtre de Poche, collaborating with artists such as Ernesto Lama, Pino L'Abbate, Luca Gatta, Peppe Miale and Lello Arena. He recently participated in the “Premio Serra – Campi Flegrei”, promoted by the Teatro Serra of Naples: “It was nice to take part in an initiative that wants to make known, to a wider audience, the activities carried out by the community on the island by telling how art and science are anything but two separate things and can, instead, collaborate together. A beautiful thing. Too often we forget that the scientist and the artist are both creative”.
The publications will continue with a fixed cadence on the 22nd of each month, until the end of the year.
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