“The Salgari Method” is a nomadic art event developed since July 2013 (by Andrea Balestrero, Nina Fiocco, Ulises Matamoros, Rogelio Sánchez) that aims to map the real world in a “fantastic” way through a community based process.

Emilio Salgari (1862-1911) was an Italian writer who – without traveling outside his nation- wrote numerous novels set in several distant countries distributed on all the continents which he got to know just through news and images found in magazines, books, newspapers.

One hundred years later, this mechanism of knowledge of distant places through media (such as the Internet) by renouncing to a direct experience has become totally ordinary for everyone.

With the aim to reflect on this way to “know from a distance”, the project establishes a dialogue with communities and builds, basing on this collective brainstorming, artistic and architectural installations that mimic landscapes or remote architectures through the use local materials.

The Salgari Method takes into consideration a process of knowledge that occurs through distance rather than proximity, a form of thinking and acting in reality that proposes a non-objective approach to knowledge. Understanding is intended as subjective involvement in the active and conscious construction of an imaginary that is shared and that does not level but on the contrary welcomes contradiction and difference. The method of thinking immediately corresponds to a practical method of action, in both cases it is a question of building responsibly.

 

 

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