PDR EP01 – Taranto 2049. Is this fading city cooler than Blade Runner?
Critical Spatial Practice,
Taranto,
2018
Post Disaster Rooftops is a critical spatial practice staged on the rooftops of Taranto, an industrial city in Southern Italy which is undergoing a long-term ecological and economic crisis. The project understands the city as a manifesto of the western contradictions, whose condition is a starting point for an intersectional and collective investigation on urgent contemporary issues.
EP01’s curatorial framework refers to an article published in the New York Times that portrayed Taranto as a fading city, the evidence that the country failed in dealing with the socio-economic disparities between the North and the South. In the attempt of overturning this definition, we understand the city as an ideal laboratory for alternative urban practices, as well as a fertile ground to investigate global and urgent issues:
– Nature VS Culture
– Decolonize marginal territories / Decentralize cultural production
– Public spaces as Agonistic spaces
Artistic direction
Post Disaster
Curators
Post Disaster
Contributors
Lorenza Baroncelli, Michele Bee, Valeria Cifarelli, Alessandro Coppola, Clessidra Teatro, Marianna D’Ovidio, deltastudio, Chiara Giubilaro, Giovanni Guarino, Like A Little Disaster, Azzurra Muzzonigro, Antonio Ottomanelli, Orizzontale, Salvatore Peluso, Marco Petroni, takecare (Roberta Mansueto), Whereiswave?
