Dafnà Moscati and Marco
Mazzotti
il mediterraneo nella tua città
Racconti per un confronto
[the mediterraneo in your city
stories for a confrontation]
A project and a documentary video by Dafna Moscati and Marco Mazzotti for 'Love Difference' during the participation in the
50th Venice Biennale.
Project in collaboration with Love Difference.
Love can start only after the 'confrontation'. We need first of all to create opportunities to meet the other, to be confronted with the different. From curiosity and surprises the prejudices can naturally disappear and the space for real contact can appear.
The Mediterraneo in your city is a way to get curious about ‘the foreigner’, to get to know better ‘the stranger’, to get closer to ‘the other’. We are afraid of what we don’t know, of what we imagine only through prejudices.
We wanted to find ‘the Mediterranean’ in different cities. We started with Venice. The Mediterranean, as a starting point, an example of an infinite variety and richness of different cultures. We searched and interviewed 23 people coming from each one of the Mediterranean
countries that are living and working in the area of Venice. We explored in which ways these people are keeping contact with their ‘home’ country, which traditions, rituals, habits they are still preserving in their new home. We spoke about food, superstitions, games, fairytales, proverbs, education, festivities, symbols, characteristic objects, behaviours, animals, smells, nature and much more.
A main point in the interviews was to find out about ‘stories’:
personal stories, traditional stories, tales, legends, anecdotes and of course what mean to them the Mediterranean and these two words: ‘Love Differences’!
The special familiar atmosphere that was quickly created during the encounters, the openness and hospitality of the people we interviewed, their will to talk about themselves, their life and their experiences, the taste of all these different countries left us with the desire for more.
by Dafnà Moscati, artist
Download the printable .PDF file
il mediterraneo nella tua città
Racconti per un confronto
[the mediterraneo in your city
stories for a confrontation]
A project and a documentary video by Dafna Moscati and Marco Mazzotti for 'Love Difference' during the participation in the
50th Venice Biennale.
Project in collaboration with Love Difference.
Love can start only after the 'confrontation'. We need first of all to create opportunities to meet the other, to be confronted with the different. From curiosity and surprises the prejudices can naturally disappear and the space for real contact can appear.
The Mediterraneo in your city is a way to get curious about ‘the foreigner’, to get to know better ‘the stranger’, to get closer to ‘the other’. We are afraid of what we don’t know, of what we imagine only through prejudices.
We wanted to find ‘the Mediterranean’ in different cities. We started with Venice. The Mediterranean, as a starting point, an example of an infinite variety and richness of different cultures. We searched and interviewed 23 people coming from each one of the Mediterranean
countries that are living and working in the area of Venice. We explored in which ways these people are keeping contact with their ‘home’ country, which traditions, rituals, habits they are still preserving in their new home. We spoke about food, superstitions, games, fairytales, proverbs, education, festivities, symbols, characteristic objects, behaviours, animals, smells, nature and much more.
A main point in the interviews was to find out about ‘stories’:
personal stories, traditional stories, tales, legends, anecdotes and of course what mean to them the Mediterranean and these two words: ‘Love Differences’!
The special familiar atmosphere that was quickly created during the encounters, the openness and hospitality of the people we interviewed, their will to talk about themselves, their life and their experiences, the taste of all these different countries left us with the desire for more.
by Dafnà Moscati, artist
Download the printable .PDF file
