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COM[ MUN ]ITAS
IM
[ MUN ]ITAS °

Both of these terms derive from the Latin word MUNUS, which means gift, office, obligation towards someone; if community is its affirmative expression, immunity represents its negative meaning; therefore, while the members of the community are characterized by the commitment of reciprocal gift, immunity, on the contrary, implies a sort of derogation, or exemption, from this law of the common gift. Those who are not required to pay their tribute are immune.

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A TRANS-DISCIPLINARY AND INTERCULTURAL ARTISTIC INITIATIVE, WHICH INVESTIGATES THE MUNUS IN ITS DECLINATIONS AND MODALITIES.

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How does reciprocity and the exemption from it shape and regulate the relationships between bodies (be they human, landscape, atmospheric, etc.)?

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The initiative unfolds over the three-year period 2021-23 through integrated projects. 

ORIGIN OF THE RESEARCH

At the end of a pandemic year, in which our lives have been turned upside down like socks, we begin to feel the certainty that what we left in March 2020 will not return. That reality, that everyday life will no longer be a future, and the pandemic will not be a parenthesis in a line of continuity, but rather, a point of rotation that will make the plane of reality overturn. We could turn to a wonderful plane, as to a terrifying plane, and in between the thousand shades remain open; there is therefore no negative or pessimistic thought, but the awareness of being in a liminal phase, towards a new identity. Making peace with the impossibility of predicting which plane we are turning towards, what we can do is instead read and explore some signals that are present, today, some key words that are strongly drawing the present and that will probably therefore grow. in the future. Among these concepts, immunity is one of those concepts that struck us most because as dance artists we work with the exact opposite in our profession: community, sensitivity, receptivity. It is therefore our interest, and our duty, precisely because we are experts in what immunity obscures, to bring attention to what we all put aside. For these reasons we have identified in the combination of the words: immunity ° community, the center of artistic research. 

CONTEXT AND NETWORK

Both of these terms derive from the Latin word MUNUS, which means gift, office, obligation towards someone; community is the affirmative expression of this concept, immunity represents the negative meaning; therefore, while the members of the community are characterized by the commitment of reciprocal gift, immunity, on the contrary, implies a sort of derogation, or exemption, from this law of the common gift. Those who are not required to pay their tribute are immune .

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COM [MUN] ITAS | IM [MUN] ITAS

is a trans-disciplinary, intercultural artistic initiative that investigates MUNUS in its forms and forms. 

How reciprocity and exemption from it shape and regulate the relationships between bodies?

 

The initiative unfolds over the three-year period 2021-23 through different integrated projects and actions. 

PROJECTS

TWO WEEKS OF COLLECTIVE RESEARCH ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN IMMUNITY AND COMMUNITY, GUIDED BY ARTISTS, UNIVERSITY TEACHERS, EDUCATIONAL TEACHERS, IN THE URBAN AND NON-URBAN SPACE.

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PERROCCATI NO MORE  

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MUNUS

INTERNATIONAL PRODUCTION OF LIVE SHOW.

Africa - Europe

2022

A dialogue project between Europe and Africa through performative art.

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MANTEIA

Editorial production

A collection of art and tradition under the sign of dialogue between different cultures.

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