“Rethinking Lampedusa” is a research project and art-residency organized by Made Program in Siracusa and originally promoted by the Northeastern University in Boston. The research group, which includes artists, photographers, musicians, and students, has worked over the years on a geo-imaginary and political design mapping of the island of Lampedusa in collaboration with Mediterranean Hope.
The program offers horizontal – non-hierarchical and participatory – workshop activities based on different experiential explorations of the island according to students preferred artistic practice. Sounds, movements, maps, photographs and video, utopian manifestos, come together to draw a new geo-political metaphor for the Sicilian island, unfolding the condition of the central Mediterranean area as a way to understand the contemporary condition.