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On the occasion of festivalfilosofia 2024, the project I don’t care (about football) will be presented at Arena – Spazio Culturale in Modena in a new, site-specific installation designed for the reopening of the cinema after a restoration and recovery intervention.
Marking the centenary of Franco Basaglia’s birth, Giulia Iacolutti revisits and reactivates his thought, citing him as an ethical and political guide: “in order to truly confront illness, we must be able to encounter it outside of institutions.” From this premise, the Marangoni 105 project—described by the artist as artistic and participatory—was born and developed over three years together with the players of the namesake football team, founded within a rehabilitation facility of the Mental Health Department of Udine.
The team is composed of patients, caregivers, supporters, and staff: a heterogeneous collective that disrupts the idea of psychiatric identity as a fixed and institutionalized role. Through workshops focused on the dynamics of the game, Iacolutti builds a parallel between football strategies and processes of self-awareness and social interaction. The body becomes the field of inquiry and recomposition: in the photographic collages, new postures emerge from a collective act of cutting and pasting, while the missing parts remain white, evoking absence and the therapeutic space of emptiness.
For festivalfilosofia, the project takes the form of a site-specific installation within the newly restored Cinema Arena in Modena, in dialogue with sound artist Nicola Di Croce. The installation is conceived around the idea of “play as a supplement to reality,” drawing a parallel between cinematic time and game time. The sound piece merges real environments with instrumental distortions, expanding the perceptual field of the work across body, image, and sound.
Giulia Iacolutti is a visual artist with a degree in Art Economics. She trained in Photography at the Accademia del Teatro alla Scala and in Visual Storytelling at the Mayer Foundation. Her work investigates human relationships through participatory art practices and unfolds across photography, performance, and moving image.
Nicola Di Croce is a sound artist and researcher. His work focuses on qualitative, participatory, and creative approaches aimed at exploring urban transformations and developing urban policies through emerging methodologies in sound and relational art.
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I don’t care (about football)
13-14-15 settembre 2024
Arena ‒ Spazio Culturale | Viale A. Tassoni 8 | 41124 Modena
