Radical Island#1-The New Ibiza

BLOOP 4th International Proactive Art Festival, from 20 July to 24 August 2014, Ibiza.

In “Causes and Reasons of Desert Islands”, Deleuze talks about continental islands recalling the definition of geographers on derived or accidental islands, which arise from a fracture of the mainland, an erosion that has taken them away living through the sinking, a detachment, labeling itself as a different and foreign body.

 

“The impulse that drives the man to desert islands recalls the double movement which produces the island itself. Dreaming the islands, no matter whether with anguish or joy, it means dreaming of separating, of being already separate, far from continents, of being alone and lost, or rather starting again and recreating. There are derived islands, but the island is even that to which it’s drifting, and there are original islands but the island is also origin, the radical and absolute origin.”

 

The separation must be complete and total, “the ongoing struggle between land and water” must be over, to achieve a conclusive condition of quiet and definition of boundary. Among control stitches and its boundaries, observable in our cities, we see growing spaces able to slip it away, real desert islands for new men, for a new vision of urban freedom, no-regulation and suspension of control. We strongly believe that this is the landscape in which a huge change is possible. The project focuses on the study of the opportunities given by these territories, by choosing some existing case studies. The first one is Ibiza, an icon, looking for the original permissive and emancipatory spirit, that over the years has made it an island, a shelter of diversity, which today feels threatened.

 

The new Ibiza.
During BLOOP FESTIVAL will be made a movable installation, The New Ibiza, an island for a single person by now running toward a New Ibiza, wanting to bring with him the original spirit. Will move by road and sea collecting stories and will have a base on exhibition space of Sa Punta D’Es Moli, where it will host a visual catalog of the radical island in history.

 

Shipwrecks.
Shipwrecks is an online, huge archive of georeferenced stories, that shows the struggle between the original radicalism of the island and the progressive exploitation of its spirit from an economic point of view, with a strong resulting distortion of its original characters. It’s structured like a completely open map without moderation or filter. The material is divided into Original Elements and Contemporary Threats, then structured into three categories: Video, Images, and Documents.ù

 

A project by Parasite 2.0 with dopolavoro.org, Claudia Mainardi e Tamar Shafrir
Photo by Parasite 2.0
www.radicalislands.org