Bestiario Idrico

With the World Factory, Marco Paolini, joined by artists, scholars, and communities, brings to the stage at the Roman Theater a laboratory that seeks to imagine a future that is not a repetition of the present.

Imagining what does not immediately catch the eye, gathering witnesses and stories, poetic words and songs, building an emotional thread of belonging, of a community that ideally connects water and land, which have been wisely and skillfully modified for agricultural use first and industrial use later, and today must be rethought with foresight to prevent a severe water resource crisis.

This is a tale of generations of cuts and hairstyles that from the mountains to the sea have shaped the land by governing water and how this work, this action, concerns us.

Water Bestiary speaks of rivers and beasts of every kind, narrates stories of biological and social life tied to rivers. It tells of the conflicts and contracts that around the water of the rivers have shaped that landscape we now recognize as our own. It makes visible the close connection between the forms of water governance and the quality of life on the banks, not only of one species, but of the entire ecosystem.

We all live by the sea, this is the summary of the lesson that Nature teaches us. This is what the World Factory deals with, and from this summary comes the idea of creating a water bestiary.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Water Bestiary speaks of rivers and beasts of every kind, narrates stories of biological and social life tied to rivers. It tells of the conflicts and contracts that around the water of the rivers have shaped that landscape we now recognize as our own. It makes visible the close connection between the forms of water governance and the quality of life on the banks, not only of one species, but of the entire ecosystem.