06. The Orobie Biennial

“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.

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