July 5, 2019

JOURNEY ACROSS THE STRAIT II/2019

VIDEO SUMMARY
CONVERSATION WITH ALFONSO FEMIA

July 5, 2019
Journey across the Strait II – Between Reggio Calabria and Messina

Alfonso Femia shares some anticipations on this new edition of the Invisible Mediterranean(s).
Our second journey discovering two regions to affirm the centrality of the Mediterranean in the Strait and to bring attention back to a heritage that is too often unknown.
Have a nice trip!

FaRo FABBRICA DEI SAPERI, ROSARNO

July 5, 2019
Journey across the Strait II – FaRo Fabbrica dei Saperi, Rosarno (RC)

In Rosarno, together with Giuseppe Idà, Maria Carmela Greco, Giovanni Multari and Michelangelo Pugliese, we discovered a city that is beginning a real transformation plan in order to be able to grant new opportunities to the younger part of its community.

ROSARNO

July 5, 2019
Journey across the Strait II – Rosarno (RC)

Our interview to the mayor of Rosarno, Giuseppe Idà.

JOURNEY ACROSS THE STRAIT

July 5, 2019
Journey across the Strait II – Between Reggio Calabria and Messina

During our second journey on the Strait we had the opportunity to speak with Salvatore Vermiglio, Francesco Vita and Salvatore Greco.
Solutions to enhance the outstanding landscape of the Strait, between internal and external points of view, as moments of reflection that can trigger new dynamics and opportunities.

STAZIONE FS MAZZONI, MESSINA

July 5, 2019
Journey across the Strait II – Stazione Ferroviaria Mazzoni, Messina

The importance of words to tell and rediscover the city, between forgotten and transformed places.
Dialogues with Anna Mallamo and Antonello Russo.

FORTE PETRAZZA, MESSINA

July 5, 2019
Journey across the Strait II – Forte Petrazza, Messina

Luciano Marabello and Adriana Galbo tell us about the history of the fort system positioned along the Strait. From invisible strategic points to reinterpreted areas that are now visible and accessible by the public.

QUARTIERE MAREGROSSO, MESSINA

July 5, 2019
Journey across the Strait II – Quartiere Maregrosso, Messina

In the Maregrosso district of Messina where spaces are transformed into real places by workng in a functional way on the constraints of the landscape.
Our interviews to Gaetano Giunta, Giuppi Sindoni, Giuseppe Intersimone and Pier Paolo Zampieri.

MACHO – Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Horcynus Orca, Messina

July 5, 2019
Journey across the Strait II – Horcynus Orca Contemporary Art Museum, Messina

“MACHO”, the contemporary art museum born thanks to the research on visual arts of the cultural and geo-political contexts of the Mediterranean, stands in this extraordinary cusp of the Mediterranean, a place that is rich in stories and legends, and unique for its biodiversity.
Here we meet with different characters who tell us their experiences related to this wonderful territory.

CASTELLO RUFFO, SCILLA

July 6, 2019
Journey across the Strait II – Ruffo Castle, Scilla (RC)

Inside Castello Ruffo, which overlooks the sea of the Strait from the promontory on which it stands, we meet Rosaria Sofi and Filippo Andreacchio who talk to us about ancient myths and traditions.

GERACE, REGGIO CALABRIA

July 6, 2019
Journey across the Strait II – Gerace (RC)

In Gerace, last stop of our journey, we talked about projects that combine tradition and innovation, history and future, heritage and research.
Our interviews with Nino Cannatà, Orlando Sculli, Pasquale Casile, Mayor Giuseppe Pezzimenti and the Municipality of Gerace.

Invisible Mediterranean(s)
5-6 July 2019

From July 5th to July 6th, Alfonso Femia and Giorgio Tartaro, together with 500×100’s staff – Stefano Anzini (photographer) and Marco Maselli (videomaker), assisted by Natalee Christine Rojo, Liloye Chevallereau and Gianmatteo Ferlin (the editorial staff) – return with “Journey on the Strait” to continue the exploration, the dialogue and confrontation they began in 2018.
Ambassadors of “Invisible Mediterranean(s) / The Journey on the Strait”: architects Francesco Messina and Michelangelo Pugliese, with the collaboration of Salvatore Greco, Domenico Spanò, Fabrizio Ciappina and Luciano Marabello.
Immersed in the Mediterranean, discovering magical and remote places, to bring attention back to heritages that are too often unknown, but that, at the same time, belong to many. Through the voices and stories of those who live and belong to these territories, discovering their history, value, needs, future goals, possible projects and their magic.
Among the interviewees accompanying us in this new adventure: Armando Neri (Deputy Mayor of Reggio Calabria), Salvatore Greco (OAPPC_RC), Francesco Vita (Urbanist and Coop. Sant’Arsenio), Mariangela Cama (Councilor for Urban Planning – Reggio Calabria), Antonello Russo (UNIRC researcher), Anna Mallamo (Journalist – curator of the section dedicated to culture on the Gazzetta del Sud) and Fabrizio Ciappina (Order of the Architects’ Concilour – Messina), Gaetano Giunta (Fondazione di Comunità), Giuppi Sindoni and Giuseppe Intersimone (architects), Pier Paolo Zampieri (Urban sociology researcher at Unime and “Zonacammarata” organizer in Messina), Luciano Marabello and Adriana Galbo (architects), Giuseppe Falzea (President of the Order of the Architects of Messina), Salvatore Vermiglio (President of the Order of the Architects of Reggio Calabria), Wladimiro Maisano (Councilor for Culture of the Municipality of Palmi), Filippo Andreacchio and Stella Scionti (Lamorfalab Studio Creativo).
Among the guests of our talks: Gaetano Giunta (President of Fondazione di Comunità and Fondazione Horcynus Orca), Caterina Pastura (Editorial board of the publishing house “Mesogea”), Tino Caspanello (actor and theater director), Gianfranco Anastasio (painter), Gaetano Scarcella (architect and promoter of the Ionian coast urban regeneration program), Gianni Brandolino (Unirc professor – illustrator), Aldo Zucco (scenographer – A.B.A. Catania), Orlando Sculli (Kepos), Pasquale Casile (Griko expert and researcher of Calabrian Greek culture), Giuseppe Pezzimenti (Mayor of Gerace), Nino Cannatà (director), Vincenzo Cataldo (Historian at the University of Messina), Francesco Messina (studio Bodàr architect), Michelangelo Pugliese (architect) and many more.
500×100 and Invisible Mediterranean(s), parallel and growing paths, made of voices, dialogues and gazes, always different and full of surprises.
The event is realized in collaboration with the Order of the Architects of Reggio Calabria and the Order of the Architects of Messina.

The struggle, the harshness, the beauty, the ethics of the phenomenon – staying is an adventure that is no less decisive and fundamental than traveling. The two complete each other and for this reason they must be captured and narrated together.
Therefore, the decision to stay has not been a shortcut for many, or an act of laziness, a choice of convenience; staying became an adventure, an act of unconsciousness and, perhaps, of courage, a struggle and a pain. One must not give in to rhetoric or emphasis, but staying is the extreme form of traveling. To stay is a form of art, an invention; an exercise that undermines the rhetoric of local identities.

Vito Teti, Pietre di pane, Quodlibet, 2011