I have always believed that training, researching, being an artist, is not just a matter of transmitting concrete information, images or stories. Artists must be able to testify that a THERE exists, that going THERE to verify makes sense and is worthwhile. The problem lies in identifying where that place is for each of us, and what tools we need to get there and talk about it.
Art, Territories, Community
“Thinking Like a Mountain” aspires to offer a contribution of experiences revolving around the process of revising biennial formats, basing its planning on three principles in contrast with the established ones: “more localized,” “long-term,” and “scaled.” The “Biennial of the Orobie,” as we might now rebaptize the program developed by GAMeC in collaboration with the communities of the extended territory of Bergamo, is an event held not every two years but rather for two years. It is one that does not happen in a place, but with a place, staging projects arising from the encounter between international artists and local communities on a scale that is not “the bigger the better” but variable in respect of the scale of each individual context.
