Visioni di Futuro

"....The Mediterranean is ’a thousand different things at the same time. It is not a path but uncountable paths. It is not a sea but a succession of seas. It is not a civilization but an amount of crowded civilizations’. This is how Fernand Braudel describes one of the themes rooted in this unusual initiative that tries to deal with various questions which are, generally, answered separately. Different languages are being compared in the Mediterranean, but this process does not regard only the Mediterranean Europe. The sea is a frontier and at the same time a fundamental place for the construction of a European identity and, moreover, of bidirectional relationships between the unifying Europe and the developing universe over its borders. The end of this century seems to be hostage of the phantoms of its beginning, but the changes are huge. It is necessary to find new ways for a civil and peaceful living and the Biennial experienced some unusual ones. Everything that has been made and invented must be verified and reconsidered as an experimentation - with a view on the next edition, Sarajevo 2001.Wittgenstein maintained that ’the world is the totality of facts, not things’. The Biennial is a repeating fact, each time different, for several years...." (from the catalogue)