Encounters

Stories from the Wastocene
the age of waste

6-8 November 2024

TAN-Theatre North Area
Via Nuova Dietro la Vigna, 20
Naples

Poster

Squeezed between the dramatic materiality of wars and climate change, it may seem alienating to talk about narratives; yet the socio-ecological crisis has much to do with the ways in which we narrate the world, the past and possible futures. We need to construct rebellious narratives and insurgent archives that lay siege to official history and liberate imaginaries and memories. Every environmental conflict is also a narrative conflict, a challenge to official narratives that want to silence or normalise injustice. Every environmental conflict is a barricade made of stories, memories, bodies and imaginaries that resist biological and cultural contamination, the extinction of collective dreams, the domestication of desires and memories. Every environmental conflict is a portal opening onto the past and the future, to tell forgotten stories of oppression and resistance, but also to imagine liberated futures.

Naples and Campania have been an open-air laboratory where the oppression of environmental contamination has become fertile ground for developing alternative narratives and resistant practices. Art, music, scientific research and literature have intertwined with the struggles against contamination, producing a myriad of experiments. There is, therefore, no better place than Naples to host a festival such as this.

Programme

Wednesday 6 November 4:30 p.m.
Presentation of the research programme
on Just Sustainability

It’s either fair or it’s not
Marco Armiero, CNR-ISMed
Gilda Catalano, University of Calabria
Margherita D’Andrea, CNR-ISMed
Francesco Saverio Oliverio, University of Catania
Salvo Torre, University of Catania
Bruno Venditto, CNR-ISMed
Annamaria Vitale, University of Calabria

6:30 p.m.
Presentation of the book
The Other World. Life on a changing planet
(Bompiani 2021), the author Fabio Deotto will be present

9:15 p.m.
Performance of music and words by Maurizio Capone
inspired by the book “L’era degli scarti”
by Marco Armiero (Einaudi 2021)

Thursday 7 November 4:00 p.m.
Ecofascisms
A discussion with Marco Armiero,
co-author of “La natura del duce” (Einaudi 2022)
and Marco Molino journalist from Corriere del Mezzogiorno

6:00 p.m.
Theatre, history, memory
meeting with Marco Paolini

8:30 p.m.
Anthropocene. VajontS23
Performance by TOP-Teatri Off Padova

Friday 8 November 5 p.m.
Screening of the film Palazzina Laf
by Michele Riondino

9.15 p.m.
Like Steve McQueen
Performance by Patate&Cipolle with Marco Bianchini,
inspired by the novel “Amianto. Una storia operaia”,
by Alberto Prunetti (Feltrinelli 2023)

The initiative is part of the activities related to the PRIN Just Sustainability Project, financed by the European Union, sponsored by the Ministry of University and Research and Italia Domani, National Plan for Recovery and Resilience, with the contribution of TAN-Teatro Area Nord, the University of Calabria and the University of Catania

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
Marco Armiero, Bruno Venditto, Margherita D’Andrea (CNR-ISMed)

ORGANISED BY
CNR-ISMed, TAN-Theatre Northern Area,
University of Calabria and University of Catania

INFO AND CONTACTS
Margherita D’Andrea
margherita.dandrea@ismed.cnr.it
www.ismed.cnr.it