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Action: Transhumance (video)

5ᵗʰ biennale svizzera del territorio:
back to the future
October 4 - November 30, 2024
Opening October 4 - 5, 2024

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We want to thwart the future as it comes to us, to change its narrative and its representations by adding to human points of view those of other beings. To do so, we propose to bring together people, dogs, sheep and their tools for a journey from one place to another. 

In the form of a transhumance, with shepherds Alessandro Cominelli and Oliver Lucini, we are re-enacting one of the major rituals of alpine farming, the practice of which has declined with the development of techniques and human control over the land. From the Rompiago Alps to the Villa Saroli in the city centre of Lugano, a group of humans and non-humans move in procession along a precise route through different environments. The passage through the city of beings who are not expected there is likely to cause friction and alter the usual interactions. The strangeness of the situation helps to raise questions for the participants. The likely obstacles and conflicts reflect the segmentation of habitats for human and non-human animals, revealing the new inhospitality of our living spaces towards the latter.

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