Il teatro del mondo. Per un’estetica relazionale: SUQ Festival

Abstract

The SUQ Festival has been recognized by the European Union as one of the best practices for the dialogue between the local and foreign communities of the city. It is a people's bazaar unmatched in Italy. According to the definition of Ball, we may say that the SUQ Festival achieves a concrete form of social unification by means of a performative dimension. Thus, in the present article, I will examine the spontaneous origin of the SUQ Festival and its development in the form of a performative and theatrical practice aimed at establishing new modes of existence and new action models in the context in which it takes place. I will focus on the strategies that the festival has adopted for the social multicultural inclusion and for the artistic transformation of the area in the last twenty years by explicitly following the key principle of Bourriaud's relational aesthetics: namely, the slippage of the creative attention from the production.