CampSouth

Central to the 2021 edition is a reflection on radical ecology, which looks not only at nature and environmental aspects, but also focuses on social and political ecology, relational practices of care, cooperative decision-making methodologies, and mutualism of knowledge as interconnected and interdependent systems.

CampoSud is a space for research and reflection in which different languages and methodologies converge, the multiple experiences of thinkers, activists, artists and participants, connected by a common thread that is that of praxis.

Created in 2017 in response to the Call for Proposals issued by the Civic Museums and the Department of Culture of the Municipality of Cagliari I WANT YOU FOR MUSEUM’S ARMY: GRAMSCI in 2017 to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the passing of one of the greatest thinkers of the 20th century, CampoSud. A visionary camp is inspired by the “one-size-fits-all” school of politics that Gramsci devised during his 44 days of confinement in Ustica. Now in its second edition, it consolidates the legacy of the international school that came to life in the previous edition, articulating a multidisciplinary proposal capable of engaging, raising awareness and activating a wide network of artists, practitioners, activists, curators, scholars. The camp moves to the MACC Museum in Calasetta. CampSouth 2021. Toward a planetary ecology lands on an ‘island within an island: Calasetta was born from the diasporic settlement of Genoese coral fishermen who arrived in Tunisia in the 1500s and later relocated between Sant’Antioco and San Pietro in the 1700s. A postcolonial territory that claims Tabarkino cultural heritage, having kept alive an indigenous musical culture, a specific production ecosystem related to the cultivation of the piede franc vine, and its own language recognized by UNESCO as intangible intangible heritage, the outcome of hybridization between cultures and preserved to this day through bottom-up municipal assembly processes. A migrant population that while maintaining its specificity has over time revealed itself to be open to negotiation and a radical porosity toward otherness. The MACC foundation, located in the village, has for years been spearheading a process of cultural reactivation and rediscovery of the area, combining recovery of tradition and contemporaneity. The city thus becomes an active laboratory, hosting talks, public presentations and workshops that intend to identify new perspectives and practices.