ELECTROPARK 2024: RESONANCES

The title of the 13th edition of Electropark - RESONANCES - recalls the sphere of sound and music, but also revolves around different areas, from physics to chemistry, and refers to the effect of resonance, reverberation, amplification, oscillation and vibration of sounds, but also of molecules, energies, magnetic fields and more generally of actions. The unifying theme of RESONANCES is in fact collective practices, i.e. artistic actions that go "in resonance", in the different disciplinary areas touched upon by the festival: electronic music, visual arts, theatre, performance and dance.

Collective practices can be the basis for profound transformations in the cultural sphere and beyond. In the words of Nigerian curator Okwui Enwezor: "Collectivity enacts an operation of irruption and transformation of the traditional mechanisms and activities of artistic production that identifies the solitary figure of the artist as its author".

RESONANCES gives space to collective and collaborative practices, aware that the various emergencies that the planet is going through - political, ecological, pandemic, humanitarian, economic, social, ... - confront humanity with the urgency of caring for the world and other human and non-human beings, of entering into deep relationships, of imagining possible futures through actions that can resonate.

The American feminist philosopher and theoretical physicist Karen Barad coined the term 'intra-action' to replace 'interaction', conceiving participation, agency, not as an intrinsic property, but as a dynamism of forces in which all the 'things' designated to act are in constant exchange and diffraction, influencing each other and working inseparably. As in the dancefloor, understood as a space of sharing: a unicum in the creation of favourable conditions for a performative action of mutual recognition without judgement and for the creation of interpersonal relationships through bodily movements that generate and propagate a synergy of forces in the surrounding environment, emanating a sense of closeness and belonging, protection and generalised solidarity, performativity without competition.