water and all its stories, in Genoa and in an online atlas
The water? It’s a precious commodity, everyone knows that. However, few remember his being also a presence, a subject who had to learn to live in urban contexts designed on a human scale. A subject who, at times, makes his voice heard with a certain strength, see under “floods”. Then there is man, who shares a place with water within the same terrestrial globe. And that it cannot do without it.
But what if the relationship between water and human presence were just a matter of perspective? Could these perspectives gradually change, enriching themselves with new ones? The answer to these questions could be only one: the Atlas of Mediterranean Liquidity. An atlas, precisely, but digital, created by the Goethe Institut of Tel Aviv, in collaboration with the Center for Digital Art in Israel. A work in progress which, through a series of maps, brings together the work of artists and scientists, with the aim of giving new words to the water/man dialogue.
And when the water calls, Genoa obviously responds. La Superba is part of the Atlas of Mediterranean Liquidity project with the interactive map IMMERSE, created by the collectives Zone Portuaires Genoa (edited by U-BOOT Lab) e Water bodies (promoted by Forevergreen) starting from The MedLiq Atlas workshop, curated by CDA Holon (Israel) and organized in Genoa – about a year ago – by the Goethe Institut of Genoa, as part of the Zones Portuaires festival. So off to a multi-sensory immersion in water vitality in the shadow of the Lantern, following a path that will allow you to observe the water from its own point of view. A journey studded with images, videos, sounds, interviews and texts, brought together to tell a no less unique territory in a unique way, from the roughness of the hinterland to the open sea.
IMMERSE awaits you online, on the platform MedLiq.art. However, if you prefer face-to-face presentations, the Goethe Institut of Genoa – in collaboration with the Luzzati Teatro della Tosse Foundation – will meet you at 6.30 pm on Monday 5 December, at La Claque (Genoa, Vico San Donato 9), for a multimedia event in which it will be possible to discover its entire genesis.