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Isolario
Maps of visible and invisibles islands and archipelagos
with Graziano Martignoni
Isolario
Maps of visible and invisibles islands and archipelagos
More often art and literature
talks about peoples with an history,
Jews, Native Americans,
Mayans and Aztecs!
Maybe because we are attracted
by a past with roots,
in a world which seems
suspended above the abyss of nothing?
How beautifully it is,
when we go walking in the forest
and we find the footprints
who has been walking before us.
Suddenly we feel less alone
and we feel that human presence
has already been there,
and has left the trace.
Well, I believe that
along all this discussions
we crossed so many islands,
which always show,
if we want to say so,
the great ambivalence,
the capacity to tell
the new and the capacity to tell
the risks of this new.
So today we ask ourselves
how can we stay on these islands,
go from one to the other,
trying not to hide the need
to meet the new
and at the same time
of not being alone.
So we get to the idea of the trace,
the trace that leaves a sign,
the trace is not a truth,
it's not a closed talk,
it’s not a scientific formula,
it's not something which prevents you to think,
the trace forces and invites you to daydream.
Those who have been there befor you,
what have they thought, lived?
The trace is the footprint of our memory,
it is the footprint of the memory
of a country,
is the footprint of the memory of a community.
Without all this, to adventure in the new,
will be to adventure in those deserts
of which we have talked,
in that emptiness which leaves,
desperate loneliness.
So, I would say,
the footprint is the condition
for that nice expression that
Donald Winnicott,
a great English psychoanalyst,
had underlined,
that of accompanied loneliness.
I think that man is crossing this post-modernity,
this transit time,
this that Gogarten,
German theologian of the 20s,
would say:
“We continue to live, between times”.
So, this condition to live between times
has not yet ended.
Well, in this living between the times,
maybe the necessary condition is that
to remain somehow listening,
and to remain in attention,
for this kind of trace,
by refusing the pre-constituted truths,
precooked, even worse,
the microwave truths,
to find, somehow,
inside of the, I believe,
inevitable fluctuations of our world,
to find the possibility
to reconnecting with
those who went before us.
And this is also a religious act
is an act of religious pity,
that of reconnect with those
who preceded us,
because this sort of relationship
with the dead,
gives again to the economy of death
which is one of the big themes
of our Western world,
the solved theme of our Western world,
the economy of death,
it gives it a different meaning,
I don't have to deny death,
I cannot defeat it,
I can not abandon this condition
of mine of being exiled inside the world
and so to be endable,
somehow, about to die,
I can't erase all this,
I can't pretend that
all this doesn't exist,
I can find a way of dialogue,
and the dialogue with the death,
to be a creative dialogue, it crosses,
to be a creative dialogue,
a dialogue which is sometimes balsamic,
a dialogue with my dead,
a dialogue with those who preceded me.
So we have this ancient cult
of the ancestors which
was in the home,
which made your house become your home,
so this looks to me a trace,
not the reproduction of something
which can't happen anymore,
but a trace of thought
which maybe will help us to face
the outcome that this late modernity
of hours is preparing for us.
Isolario
Maps of visible and invisibles islands and archipelagos