Going Public '06: Atlante Mediterraneo = Mediterranean Atlas

The fifth edition of the project Going Public is a “work in progress” which develops through a collective research involving Italian and foreign artists, students, researchers, authors, geographers, and sociologists. The 2006 edition focuses on the Mediterranean, a sea which has represented since the ancient times a meeting point for different peoples, a major way of communication and of exchange between people, economies and cultures. To understand its identity and its transformations, which were often troubled, involving delicate social and environmental balances of the areas around it, six cities were chosen as case studies: Istanbul, Beirut, Nicosia, Tel Aviv, Alexandria, and Barcelona. These cities are described as moving and evolving places, where the effects of globalization and the change of the geo-political scenario are evident: the abandonment of traditions, the growth of new megalopolis, the increase in the migratory flows and the tourist places, the ancient trade routes and the large infrastructures, the hybrid and complex role of the cities and of the large Mediterranean ports are only some of the themes on which this edition of Going Public focuses. The volume, which is conceptually linked to the previous editions, documents, as in a guide, the projects, the researches and the interventions which have been done, that range from art installations to videos, from performances to debates and workshops. Artists include Atlas Group, Tony Chakar, Ofri Cnaani, Francesca Cogni, Abdalla Daif, Donatello De Mattia, Gianmaria Conti, Manuel Delgado Ruiz, Sameh El Halawany, Achilleas Kentonis, Bilal Khbeiz, Elias Khuri, Vasif Kortun, Armin Linke, Stefano Maffei, Ashik Mene, Oda Projesi, Yiannis Papadakis, Martí Peran, Sharon Rotbard, Nermin Saybasili, Jenny Vogel, xurban_collective, Akram Zaatari, Claudia Zanfi, ARTos Cultural and Research Foundation, Can Xalant, Platform Garanti, Culture and youth department, Formigine Municipality.

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