SCARTO/SCRAP
the value of what is left
credits
Concept Masako Matsushita in collaboration with Matteo Maffesanti Choreography Masako Matsushita Dance Isabel Paladin Videomaking Matteo Maffesanti Creative Technologist Andrea Zaninello / AI Expert Department of Information Engineering (DII) Polytechnic University of Marche Associate Professor Adriano Mancini Costumes Eticò Sartoria Marchigiana / Fabrics Cristina Camponi – Camponi Atelier / Dramaturgical Consultancy Paolo Paggi Production OperaEstate and Sineglossa Co-production OperaEstate, Sineglossa and Associazione Fattoria Vittadini Conception and development of the Sineglossa project Creation of the Italia Che Cambia database Creative producer Stefania Mangano Artistic residencies CSC Bassano del Grappa, Creative Ground Sineglossa and Teatro alla Maddalena Hangartfest
producres
supported by 23/C ART Bergamo and Annantalo Art Center Helsinki
Funded by the Culture of Solidarity Fund of the European Cultural Foundation in collaboration with the Cariplo Foundation, the Compagnia di San Paolo Foundation, the CRC Foundation, and the CRT Foundation. With the support of the European Union through the Culture Moves Europe program With the contribution of Linificio e Canapificio Nazionale srl Benefit Society and the Italian Cultural Institute of Helsinki. Media partnership with Italia che Cambia
The "SCARTO/SCRAP The Value of What is Left" project is a interdisciplinary artistic journey on the relationship between dance, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and sustainability.
It addresses intergenerational injustice and eco-anxiety, which disproportionately affect the physical and mental health of the young generation across the globe. Using dance practices as a transformative way to understand Just Transition's implications for ecological sustainability, the project encourages critical and imaginative thinking in students from 11 to 15 years old from schools in Bergamo (IT) and Helsinki (FI).
The project draws its coordinates from artists Masako Matsushita and Matteo Maffesanti's SCARTO performance, which unravels the different implications of 'waste' when applied to machine learning, movement, and the environment. The three concepts are brought to the performative space to interact with each other, generating content and images that mimic and transcend reality. Along the path of finding common ground for positive environmental, physical, and digital regeneration, a futuristic creature is born. The dancer turns into a mermaid swimming through a sea of digital content, looking for allies to shape a better future. The body on stage is driven into a flux of questions and answers, where lines are blurred until we hear the sound of nature.
The project brings together an international team of artists and creative professionals, which will involve two high schools, the Istituto Professionale Cesare Pesenti in Bergamo (IT) and the Kruununhaan yläasteen koulu in Helsinki (FI), to address one of the central questions of the “Just Transition” for climate change: how to unlock the regenerative value of what we have left. SCRAP is a participatory performance path for young adults on the relationship between dance, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and sustainability. It addresses the issues of intergenerational injustice and eco-anxiety, which are disproportionately affecting the physical and mental health of young generations around the world.
Through the vision of the SCARTO 2022 performance and the participation in a dedicated workshop, the project will involve students from the Cesare Pesenti Professional Institute in Bergamo (Italy) and a high school in Helsinki (Finland), who will then meet in an online peer-to-peer workshop.
The project will develop from November 2024 to April 2025, with different stages that will take place both in person and online in Italy and Finland.
THE PROJECT STAGES
November 16 – 19, 2024 – Residency in Pesaro November 25 – 27, 2024 – Residency in Bergamo November 29 – 30, 2024 – Workshop and performance at the Istituto Professionale Cesare Pesenti in Bergamo (Italy) February 25 – 26, 2025 – Workshop and performance at the Kruununhaan yläasteen koulu in Helsinki (Finland) February 27, 2025 – Performance at the Annantalo Arts Centre Helsinki (Finland) March 2025 – Online workshop with schools in Bergamo and Helsinki