PIETRO MELE
The Island Project Multimedia project
I am going to start a campaign of fund raising so as to purchase the private Island of Budelli* for giving it to the Sardinian Government. Despite the island is part of the highly protected La Maddalena Natural Park, currently it belongs to a private owner, who is selling it on the web for 4,500,000 Euros. The Sardinian Government is a poor institution and it is not able to reach the requested sum in order to take the Island back. My aim is to involve 100,000 people asking them to donate 45 Euros each one for purchasing the island.
The project will be developed through a tour of presentations and talks in public spaces and art institutions/spaces in Europe in order to raise the necessary fund.
The final work will consist of a multimedia installation including a documentary film in which will be narrated the story of the project, documents regarding the history of the island (old photos, contracts of former owners and similar archive’s material), and all type of useful documents for describing the realisation of the project (contracts between me and the banks that will support the project, institutions donation’s receipt, pics documenting my touring presentations etc).
The whole project is an articulated reflection on the role of art thinking at his social concrete utility in one hand and on the value of utopia in an art work when dealing with operations linked to social, politics and ethical categories on the other hand. This is the actual advertisement on the Vladi Private Islands website http://www.vladi-private-islands.de/en/objects/europe-mediterranean-sea/italy/buy/isola-budelli/
- The Island of Budelli is part of the Island of Sardinia (Italy), which is situated in the middle of Mediterranean Sea. The little island is also famous for a sequence of “Deserto rosso” by Michelangelo Antonioni (1964): www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xyS8UvkzKE.
PIETRO MELE
The Island Project Multimedia project
I am going to start a campaign of fund raising so as to purchase the private Island of Budelli* for giving it to the Sardinian Government. Despite the island is part of the highly protected La Maddalena Natural Park, currently it belongs to a private owner, who is selling it on the web for 4,500,000 Euros. The Sardinian Government is a poor institution and it is not able to reach the requested sum in order to take the Island back. My aim is to involve 100,000 people asking them to donate 45 Euros each one for purchasing the island.
The project will be developed through a tour of presentations and talks in public spaces and art institutions/spaces in Europe in order to raise the necessary fund.
The final work will consist of a multimedia installation including a documentary film in which will be narrated the story of the project, documents regarding the history of the island (old photos, contracts of former owners and similar archive’s material), and all type of useful documents for describing the realisation of the project (contracts between me and the banks that will support the project, institutions donation’s receipt, pics documenting my touring presentations etc).
The whole project is an articulated reflection on the role of art thinking at his social concrete utility in one hand and on the value of utopia in an art work when dealing with operations linked to social, politics and ethical categories on the other hand. This is the actual advertisement on the Vladi Private Islands website http://www.vladi-private-islands.de/en/objects/europe-mediterranean-sea/italy/buy/isola-budelli/
- The Island of Budelli is part of the Island of Sardinia (Italy), which is situated in the middle of Mediterranean Sea. The little island is also famous for a sequence of “Deserto rosso” by Michelangelo Antonioni (1964): www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xyS8UvkzKE.