“Ex Machina” set to transform the Sicilian city of Scicli into a living theatre of contemporary art.

“Ex Machina” curated by Site Specific and the aA29 Project Room gallery, under the artistic direction of Rosa Cascone and Lara Gaeta, will be staged September 4th at the Ex Convento del Carmine in Scicli.

The event takes its name from the concept of “deus ex machina” of classical Greek theatre which defined the moment when the god appeared on stage, becoming the solver element of the entire tragedy. In this sense, the festival engages with site-specific interventions in the urban fabric and transforms the city of Scicli itself into a Living Theatre, an agora open to a confrontation between art and the public.

The project intends to highlight the current need to emerge from the mechanics and automatism that distinguishes our society and instead aims to think about ways that technological and scientific developments can be used as a means for the awareness of the complexity of the present.

Ten artists involved: Valentino Bianchi, Francesco De Grandi, Alex Majoli, Lola Montes Schnabel, Parasite 2.0, Isabella Pers, Tiziana Pers, Matilde Sambo, Giuseppe Stampone and Sasha Vinci.

Laura Barreca (Director of the Civic Museum of Castelbuono and Director of the Museum of Arts in Carrara | mudaC), Maurizio Bortolotti (Critic, independent Curator and Lecturer at NABA in Milan), Rossella Farinotti (Executive Director of the Gio ‘Pomodoro Archive) and Diego Mantoan (Lecturer at the Ca ‘Foscari University of Venice and independent curator) have been invited to provide critical contribution, public debate and to hold meetings on the project’s topics and the poetics of the artists.