THE PROJECT
Target groups: teenagers coming from different countries and Italian teens from Grazzanise and Castel Volturno

Using performative languages to bring out genius loci, the urgencies of the territory, the mythologies connected to our own blood, but also to address the international political situation, about which we have to say something. «After last year’s work on the pine forest of Castel Volturno, now destroyed, – says Christian Costa – and on the aggressive and paradoxical local architecture using the filter of Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities, this year we focus on white whales, on the environmental disaster, on community building, on art as an instrument of democracy. Heil Beuys! What whispers will rise from the salt expanses? What cries will come down from heavens ablaze?».

OPEN REHEARSAL 2nd DECEMBER h 3:00 pm
SCUOLA SECONDARIA DI PRIMO GRADO “GRAVANTE” DI GRAZZANISE – CASERTA
DIRECTOR CHRISTIAN COSTA E ANTONIO NARDELLI
IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE POLISH INSTITUTE IN ROME

CHRISTIAN COSTA
Poland
Christian Costa is a visual artist, critic, writer, musician. His work focuses on territories, communities, and social groups by conceiving and organising relational and long-lasting public art projects to return over time in places searching for their genius loci and true connection with people. He founded/ worked on the following public art projects: Container, Progetto Isole, N.EST, Spazi Docili, Biennale Urbana, E-scape. Transitional settlement. His works were exhibited at Manifesta, at the Venice Biennale, at Parsons The New School for Design in New York, at the MACRO Museum in Rome, at the European Culture Congress in Wrocław, at the PAN and MADRE Museums in Naples, at the Ikon Gallery in Birmingham, at the World Expo in Shanghai, at the Liverpool Biennial.

ANTONIO NARDELLI
Grazzanise\Basso Volturno

Architect, set designer, stage manager, and artistic director of Teens’Park theatre association. He trained in various theatrical disciplines from commedia dell’arte to biomechanics to dramatic art, while attending workshops and internships all over Italy. Director since 2010, he started collaborating in 2022 with the publishing house Another coffee stories and staged many shows. Since 2011, he created a culture festival in the Basso Volturno area in cooperation with Teens’Park.

THE CONTEXT
Teens’Park

Teens’Park is a youth-for-youth association operating in the Basso Volturno area near Caserta since 2008, which has become an artistic landmark for culture and performing arts. In 15 years, Teens’Park’s activities have extended from Grazzanise to Castel Volturno, giving rise to the creation of a theatre company and the organisation of several professional stages and workshops with artists from prestigious theatres and institutes in Italy. In recent years, Teens’Park has opened new branches in the province of Brescia and Caserta, multiplying its theatre workshops.