ALTO FEST

ALTO FEST, conceived and directed by TeatrInGestAzione, is an International Festival of Performing Arts and Transdisciplinary Interventions, started in July 2011, totally built with the citizens of Naples. They open their houses and/or private spaces (gardens, cellars, shops, gyms, etc.) hosting international artists coming from all around the world. The Festival aims to raise the awareness of territory to cultural renaissance, engaging citizens personally. They are asked to share with artists and audience the intimacy of their houses, their everyday workplace, the memory of the wineries, becoming promoters of a direct active culture in order to GIVE RISE TO A HUMAN/URBAN re-qualification. TO GIVE RISE TO is the principle guiding the Festival since its First Edition. “To give rise to” evokes the principle of giving, which is the basis of the Festival itself, with the conscious initiative, the choice, that is the premise to the gift itself. Moreover “To give rise to” means the aesthetical directions of the works and interventions that ALTO FEST generates and embraces. The interventions arise from a singular dialogue between the work and the space it is hosted by, interventions that will let the other space emerge, the possible inner space, in the wrinkles of the inhabited spaces, giving new sense to shapes, objects, actions, practiced already, prepared already to relations and actions they host in everyday life. A process carried out by experimenting with innovative poetic aiming to engage, together with the places, the system of relationships that these places host. The Festival is inserted in the urban innermost creating a real encounter between citizens and artists, focusing on innovation aesthetics, that is in our opinion the essential requirement to build a new relationship between culture and social context. “REWRITING SPACES” is the reflection that will go with 2014 Edition Alto Fest questions about the need to radically reshape the relationship with the places , to subvert the use of space and allocation of fixed roles, through never tempted daring incursions (gender, discipline, responsibility, action); and invites artists to enter into dialogue with this reflection, to decline their own definition of “re-qualification" referring to their artistic project.