Volcano Extravaganza: I Will Go Where I Don’t Belong

Volcano Extravaganza is a free public festival that takes place on the volcanic island of Stromboli, Aeolian Islands, Italy between 15 – 21 July 2016. The intention of the festival is to investigate different forms of experimentation across the visual arts, asking participants to rethink their work within the unique context of the Italian island.

Held by the Fiorucci Art Trust in Stromboli, Volcano Extravaganza 2016, has one of the most striking settings of any art festival in the world. Viewers are treated to an exclusive boutique art festival that is, literally, up a volcano. The event includes music and performance as well as more traditional visual arts, and this year is no different.

Now in its sixth edition, the festival is lead by French artist Camille Henrot with curator Milovan Farronato and is titled, “I Will Go Where I Don’t Belong”. With contributions from Egyptian artist Anna Boghiguian, David Horvitz, Mike Nelson, Martin Murphy, Yona Friedman, and Rachel Rose, Henrot is seeking to create “a constellation of themes [that] will support a weeklong and spineless narrative.”

The luxurious sounding opening night will see a dinner fashioned into scenes from Homer’s The Odyssey by Henrot herself and a soundtrack provided by the art world’s favorite polymath artist, poet, and DJ Juliana Huxtable.

I Will Go Where I Don’t Belong (July 15 – 21 2016)
Day by day Schedule:

15th July
– Group exhibition curated by Camille Henrot featuring work by Rachel Rose, Mike Nelson, Walter Sutin, Isola e Norzi, Giulio Delvè and Sven Sachsalber alongside pieces from The Henrot Family Collection and screenings of Le tempestaire and Finis Terrae by Jean Epstein
– Performance by Alberto and Francesco Zenere
– Dinner at Zurro with ceramic plates by Camille Henrot

16th July
– Musical performance by Ragnar Kjartansson
– DJ Set at Club Mega in collaboration with Vinyl Factory, featuring Juliana Huxtable

17th July
– Yona Friedman exhibition at La Lunatica
– Contributions from Jacob Bromberg and Orfeo Tagiuri – Performative Concert by Tempers at Tartana, supported by Vinyl Factory

18th July
– Contribution from David Horvitz
– A democratic storytelling experience by Camille Henrot with the participation of Jacob Bromberg, David Horvitz, Maria Loboda and Milovan Farronato, performed by Amira Ghazalla

19th July
– Contributions from Anna Boghiguian and Martin Murphy

20th July
– Contribution from Joana Escoval

21st July
– Final event on the Siremar night ferry
– Contributions from Maria Loboda and David Horvitz