DAI week 7 ~ May 2023 ~ Salina

When: May 11 - 23, 2023

What: extended, "regular" DAI Week

Where: the villages Santa Marina, Lingua and Malfa (see map)

Work spaces: Sala Congressi /118, Centro Studi, Centro Congressi Malfa and with Amanei as our temporary headquarter.

On the rooftop terrace of art space Amanei: Elettra Bottazzi,director, Marta Bandini, manager and Niccolò Masini (DAI, 2021) initiator of DAI@Salina. Photo-credit: Gabriëlle Schleijpen, September 2022.

Amaneï is a non-profit organization and cultural center based on the island of Salina (Aeolian archipelago, Italy). Amaneï is located in a 19th-century building of Santa Marina Salina, where the native Oliva family lived until 1918 before being exterminated by the Spanish flu epidemic. In 2005 Oliva’s descendants, Elisabetta di Mambro (President) and Elettra Bottazzi (artistic director), restored their ancestors’ house and activated the Amaneï project. As a cultural center in the Aeolian archipelago, it promotes territorially related research practices through residency programs, community engagement activities, and international exchange initiatives. Amaneï encourages on-site theoretical and practical research studies and projects related to its islands and islanders, fostering collaborative projects, exhibitions, talks, and workshops (among other activities) with a network of affiliated national and international partners and institutions. To facilitate the synergy between multidisciplinary practices and cross-cultural interactions, the organization activated a worldwide residency exchange program (with Indonesia in 2022/2023 and Portugal in 2023).

Our hosts: Elettra Bottazzi (artistic director), Marta Bandini (manager) and Niccolò Masini (DAI, 2021) initiator of DAI@Salina.

De Appel Curatorial Program participants 2023.

We are absolutely thrilled to announce that for the entire duration of our working period on the island of Salina, we will be joined by the 5 participants of De Appel Curatorial Training Program 2023. Eugene Hannah Park, Billy Fowo, Jean-Michel Mabruki Mussa, Marina Christodoulidou and Meghana Karnik will engage with all aspects of our program.

Over the years DAI & De Appel have organised, in a variety of ways, introductory meetings between the participants of both programs. The DAI-Week at Salina Island however, is our first full blown collaboration and we are excitedly looking forward to it!

PROGRAM

Thursday May 11: The Aeolian Islands are linked to Sicily and the Italian mainland by high-speed hydrofoil. On May 11 DAI will organize a touring car (14:00) from Catania airport to Milazzo (both on the main island Sicily) from where the ferry/hydrofoil to Salina departs. Arrival Santa Marina: dinner, followed by transfer to student accomodation in Lingua.

Friday May 12:

Day: Introduction to the Aeolian Islands, organised by our hosts.