2019
DOMUS & ATELIER ESSENZA
Tarantism and Gender
DOMUS first year, artists and curators were directly invited to spend one or two weeks in Galatina. Our guests were free to work on a theme they liked and we did our best to connect them with all local and national cultural operators. The goal of then 2019 residence was and still is to give a space to artists and curators in the Mediterranean area, to support their work, to create a network of contacts connecting individuals and independent spaces. Through various events DOMUS spread the knowledge of the phenomenon of tarantism on an international level, but also we brought contemporary art to an Italian area that is poor in contemporary art museums, art centers and galleries. Salento is still an extreme land of Southern Italy, it is for this reason that starting from this land, we opened up a reflection at an international level and we raised awareness among the southern public to be moved by contemporary art.
TALKS
August 6th 8.30 PM 2019 , Chiostro Palazzo della Cultura, Galatina : Tarantism and contemporary art: For a phenomenology of discomfort
With this fourth and last thematic talk of the DOMUS Artist Residency cycle of residences 2019, we invited international artists and curators to talk about the phenomenological aspects of artistic practices and the sense of unease associated with the crisis of tarantism.
With Nadia Kaabi-Linke (artist in the residency)
Timo Kaabi-Linke (curator in the residency)
Abed Al Kadiri
Riccardo Venturi
Lorenzo Madaro
July 25th 7PM 2019, Ex Convento Santa Chiara, Piazzetta, Galluccio, Galatina, 73013 : Censorship and repression in art: the rejection of transgression and the oppression of difference
On the occasion of the third public talk organized by DOMUS Artist Residency, we addressed the issue of censorship. Tarantism confronts us with the shame of families affected by the pain and suffering of tarantate women.
With Svitlana Levchenko (artist in the residency)
Daria Pashchenko (curator in the residency)
Angelo Maria Monaco
Edoardo Winspeare
Michela Santoro
Alberto Dambruoso
July 2nd, 7 PM, LO.FT, Via Ernesto Simini, 4/6/8, 73100 Lecce LE: End of the world : art and politics through the body
For the second public talk organized by DOMUS Artist Residency 2019, the subject of identity and difference act as a link between the behavior of the tarantate and contemporary art research in hostile territories. The human-being lies at the center of our second talk: their physical history and geographic peculiarities become elements of rebellion against they own society and the political and sociological aspects of the present time.
With Mouna Jemal (Artist in the residency)
Valentina Gioia Levy (Curator in the residency)
Chiara Mambro
Carmelo Cipriani
June 25th 6.30PM, Palazzo della Cultura / Sala Contaldo: Contemporary Tarantate and lands of remorse; who are they and where do they come from?
In the study of Ernesto De Martino, The land of remorse, dedicated to the phenomenon of tarantism in the land of Salento at the end of the 1950s, tarantata and ritual practices had a cathartic function, against an existence marked by precariousness and by the social, human and geographical marginalization.
With Myriam Mihindou (artist in the residency)
Rikke Jørgensen (curator in residence)
Claudio Zecchi
Henri Guette
Maristella Martella (artist from Apulia)
MEETINGS
Kreëmart - Identity in the Form of Taste July 13 2019 - A100 Gallery
Domus Artist Residency is pleased to host Raphael Castoriano, founder and director of Kreemart based in New York. The meeting will be hosted by Nunzia Perrone and Gigi Rigliaco in the spaces of the A100 GALLERY in Galatina, partners and co-organizers of the Domus Artist Residency project.
Vincenzo Santoro - Rite and Passion, 5 July 2019 - Domus Artist Residency
Domus welcomed Vincenzo Santoro (writer) for a meeting with our residents Valentina Levy and Mouna Jemal, to speak about Rite and Passion in Tarantisme phenomenon. Vincenzo Santoro has been concerned with South Italy’s music and cultures for many years.
Maurizio Nocera - Tarantism and Mythology 27 June 2019 - Domus Artist Residency
Born in 1947 in the province of Lecce, he is a teacher of Philosophy and Psychology at the Liceo pedagogico di Lecce. We talked about Tarantismo and heard his point of you on Arachne and Athena's mythology as the commencement of the Tarantismo tradition for women and homosexuals.
SHOW
Mouna Jemal Siala - “Presence and Identity in the Lands of the Remorse"
End of residence project by Mouna Jemal Siala and Valentina Gioia Levy, In collaboration with A100 Gallery and Gigi Rigliaco Gallery, Sunday 7 July 2019 9:00 pm at the Gigi Rigliaco Gallery Via R.Orsini, 10 Galatina, Italy
DOMUS Artist Residency is pleased to present the artist's end of residence project Tunisian Mouna Jemal Siala and curator Valentina Gioia Levy who will be hosted by A100 Gallery and Gigi Rigliaco Gallery. "Presence and identity in the Lands of Remorse" is an exhibition project happening at the end of the residency period that the artist and the curator have done in Galatina. Art replaces magic and is constituted active tool of resistance to disappearance and oblivion, but also to the fragmentation of female identity that confronts and clashes with patriarchal society and the danger of a historical regression towards fundamentalism and violence.