Attraversamenti Multipli for the three-year period 2020-2021-2022 is accompanied by the theme / slogan everything is connected.
The butterfly effect concerns our fragility and our total interdependence. We are all interconnected through non-linear relationships.
Being in the world and building worlds are collective and multiple exercises, in which acting means, consciously or unconsciously, acting in interaction with other creatures and with different social, cultural and environmental contexts.
Attraversamenti Multipli 2022 is proposed as a participatory device and as a vital space of relationship. A human landscape created by the bodies that meet, the looks that cross and the sharing of spaces / thoughts / actions.
For Attraversamenti Multipli 2022 interfacing with public space means inhabiting “a place capable of offering us the possibility of a radical perspective from which to look, create, imagine alternatives and new worlds… a space that makes possible and encourages different and ever-changing perspectives, a space in which we discover new ways of seeing reality, the frontiers of difference.” (bell hooks)
Attraversamenti Multipli enhances through its artistic actions regenerated spaces and places that are protagonists of processes of transformation of the urban fabric. It is in close connection with the context in which it develops involving local networks and energies in a local / global perspective.
Within a project arc that began in 2017
and in this edition involves a new space: the Park of Torre del Fiscale, which is inhabited by site specific in dialogue with the extraordinary urban / natural / archaeological landscape of this “green wedge” in a green and sustainable perspective.
The 2022 edition of the festival develops
In the program, always in the perspective of the interconnection between artistic action/spectators/urban landscapes, there are: site specific works created for the festival in interaction with the spaces that welcome them, artistic projects with particular relational formats that try to dissolve the boundaries between performers and spectators to build an encounter and a space to inhabit, performances that hybridize different artistic genres, shows dedicated to new generations of spectators.
Alessandra Ferraro and Pako Graziani
a project of
Margine Operativo
artistic direction
Alessandra Ferraro and Pako Graziani
press office & communication
Chiara Crupi / Artinconnessione
production secretary
Vera Caruso
social media
Irene De Marco
graphic project
Peter Blackfish
webdesign and graphics
Elisa Antonacci, Flyer
infopoint and ticket office
Camilla Gorga and Vera Caruso
logistics and public reception
Fabrizio Aramini and Claudia Venier
photographer
Carolina Farina
Blog coordination
Luca Lotano
sound designer
Dario Salvagnini
light designer
Marco Guarrera, Camila Chiozza
videomaker
Stefano Cormino
organizational and technical coordination
Margine Operativo
in collaboration with
Garage Zero
The first edition took place in 2001 in Rome.
Attraversamenti Multipli for many years has been nomadic, crossing in every edition different places and spaces of the metropolis of Rome: from the subway stations to spaces of industrial archeology, such as Officine Marconi (ex Italcable), from the Universities of Tor Vergata and La Sapienza to the pedestrian islands (Pigneto, S. Lorenzo, Largo Spartaco). Lorenzo, Largo Spartaco and Casal Bertone), from libraries (Biblioteca Goffredo Mameli) to multipurpose spaces such as Garage Zero, Esc Atelier and Centrale Preneste Teatro, with a predilection for redeveloped and regenerated places that symbolize the transformations of the city.
In 2014 it took place not only in Rome but also in Naples: in the art stations of the subway. In 2017 it inhabited a regenerated space in the historical center of Genoa. In some editions it proposed events in the province of Rome and in the Lazio Region. Since 2017 – within a project arc that extends until 2022 – the festival has chosen to “inhabit” with its artistic actions a popular and densely inhabited area of Rome, the Quadraro district and one of its fulcrums: the pedestrian island of Largo Spartaco, a space that the festival had already crossed with some events in previous editions.
During its 21 editions it has been supported by Roma Capitale, Lazio Region and the Province of Rome. In 2021 it was also supported by the MIC – Ministry of Culture. The start-up in 2001 took place with a grant from Zone Attive. In 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 a cross-disciplinary event of Attraversamenti Multipli – which ran from dusk to dawn – was part of the program of the NOTTE BIANCA of Rome.
In 2014, 2015 and 2016 the project was declared by Roma Capitale “Festival of particular interest for the cultural life of the City 2014-2016”.
In 2014 Attraversamenti Multipli was also held in Naples with the support of the Universal Forum of Cultures and UNESCO. In 2017 Attraversamenti Multipli took place also in Genoa with the support of Compagnia di San Paolo in the context of “ORA! Linguaggi contemporanei Produzioni innovative”.
In 2016, 2017 and 2019 a part of the festival was intertwined with the project “CONTACT ZONES_performing arts in urban spaces” realized by Margine Operativo and supported by the European Union within the Creative Europe program.
In 2021 the book “ATTRAVERSAMENTI MULTIPLI 2001 – 2020. A journey through the mobile horizons of contemporary performing arts” edited by Alessandra Ferraro and Pako Graziani – published by Editoria & Spettacolo.
These characteristics have delineated another area of action for Margine Operativo: the creation of events and the conception and realization of the multidisciplinary festival Attraversamenti Multipli – proposed annually since 2001 – which questions the relationships and interferences between contemporary artistic languages and the present, inserting artistic events in unusual locations and urban spaces.
Margine Operativo combines the work of artistic production with an intense activity in the field of networking with other festivals/artists/companies active in the protection of the rights of workers in the performing arts and in the promotion of contemporary cultures.
In his shows and performances he presses the emergencies of the present addressing the complexity of reality through the multiplicity of the contemporary.
The Cultural Association Margine Operativo was founded in Rome in 2001.
In 2018 was published the book “I teatri di Margine Operativo” edited by Andrea Pocosgnich, in the series Spaesamenti – publishing house Editoria & Spettacolo.
