Currently, water access, in Sicily as elsewhere, faces major challenges, including privatization and potability. Simultaneously, human-caused pollution and warming of the atmosphere result in flooding or desertification, stripping water of the life-giving properties that are so fundamental to its character. Yet, today, as the sea rises, water is increasingly privatised and treated like a commodity to be extracted, priced and resold. It is feminine and quintessentially fluid, it flows through and adapts, it rises to the opportunity to spring and flow.Ī careful distribution of clean water is essential for a diverse assemblage of organisms and species to thrive in sustainable presents and futures. Ever the shape-shifter, water manifests itself as tears and raindrops, raging rivers and placid ponds, it evaporates and creates figures in the sky through the bodies of clouds. Water, one of life’s sustaining elements, continually undergoes metamorphosis, like the nymphs of Greek mythology, Ciane and Arethusa, who were transformed into streams to escape the abuses of powerful gods. Arachnochronies and anthropochronies, geo-histories and hydro-histories, hybrid and post-human mythologies tell the urgencies of the present through oracular languages and imperceptible vibrations, asking visitors to pay attention to the webs of life that connect us to our surrounding ecologies and acknowledge the response-ability needed to halt the destructive cycle of the Capitalocene. The spider’s web, arachnomancy, the evocation and reinterpretation of myths and the concept of metamorphosis became guiding concepts for rethinking and rediscovering the interweaving of life forms, timelines and symbiopoietic networks that animates the park, turning our attention to those that have inhabited it for millions of years-such as the 46 species of spider that have been found there. Over the exhibition’s course, the traditional archaeological tours of the Area were traversed by AnarcoAracnoAnacroArcano in a narrative augmentation that multiplies the many possible stories contained within the archaeological site, questioning the centrality of human history and in particular that of the West, which finds its founding moment precisely in the classical era. To hear beyond our range of at-tent(s)ion, the exhibition traversed and intervened the traditional archaeological tours of the Area of Neapolis with Saraceno’s experimental narrative route, inviting visitors to attune to rhythms of interspecies connectivity, towards an Aero(s)cenic vision of geos, bios and cosmos relation. C urated by Paolo Falcone, AnarcoAracnoAnacroArcano invited us to wander with the transformations necessary in our search for new propositions of multispecies flourishing. Weathered tales of past mythology confronted and challenged the planetary conditioning that structures the ways in which we live together today. The shape of our story resembled not an arc, but a web of at-tent(s)ion-a Teatro di Aracne that invited new entanglements on the stages of historic crossing. A trail in five acts, a play of weaving chapters: Parco Archeologico della Neapolis re-opened to a tale of interspecies solidarity.
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