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Encounters on the elsewhere: Tanja Umari & Susanna Trotta
The three video interviews, produced as part of the Techno project for the Museion Passage exhibition space, are part of an ongoing research project on the cultural legacy of techno in South Tyrol.
The protagonists of these conversations are not only the individuals, coming from different fields of research and active in the region, but also the very spaces in which these individuals met for the interviews.
The theme of ”elsewhere”, chosen as the underlying theme of these three meetings, is a central concept not only in the techno (or tekno) experience, but also in certain cultural, social and economic practices active in the region of South Tyrol.
To adopt the thinking of Franco La Cecla, anthropologist and architect, for whom the outskirts are the place where “the future of cities is hatched, shaped, what will give meaning later to the planned or unplanned remnants”, the elsewhere becomes a space that is sought after, in demand, and very often collectively inhabited.
On the topic of various ‘elsewheres’, both historical and individual, political and in terms of resistance, Claudio Rocchetti (musician) and Andrea di Michele (historian) gave their views in the space of the disused power station Alperia St. Antonio - Bolzano; Hannes Goetsch (Interdisciplinary Strategist and CVO of BASIS) and Roland Benedikter (economist) conversed in the spaces of BASIS Vinschgau Venosta in Silandro; and finally Tanja Umari (psychiatrist) and Susanna Trotta (researcher) discussed their views on ‘elsewheres’ in the historic building Ospizio Klösterle di San Floriano in Laghetti, Egna.
These three venues are among the locations where techno, in its various forms, has found or finds expression in this region.
Every year, inside and outside the walls of the former pilgrims’ hospice St. Florian zu Laag / Neumarkt, the interdisciplinary cultural festival HOSPIZ takes place. Its focus is on experimental electronic music, such as techno, rave culture and underground art.
In this historically significant place, Tanja Umari and Susanna Trotta discussed the idea of ‘elsewhere’ as a mental and spiritual journey.
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Video: Roberta Segata
