Traveling through the soul of a place

This is a project conceived by the “Teatro dei Sassi” which aims to create an unprecedented way of visiting our city, via the use of Emotional Maps created through a collection of memories and stories of the town’s inhabitants and eventually, of the visitors themselves. Thanks to these special maps, travelers can communicate with the town and expand their travel experience through a multi-sensory journey in several stages. Matera is the first town to experiment with this method

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400 of Matera’s inhabitants have already been involved in these emotional mappings: from 10 year-olds to 80 year-olds, these are people who have created their own emotional maps, through narrations and drawings, telling stories about those places in the town where emotionally significant events of their lives occurred. The invitation remains open to all those who want to make their own map, accessible on this site. After a process of selection and literary and artistic transformation, we will define an emotional mother map made up of 15 places throughout Matera. From March to July 2019, an artistic synthesis of the project will be visible in “The secretissima camera de lo core”, a site-specific multisensory installation.

THE WRITER ALESSANDRO BARICCO AND THE HOLDEN SCHOOL OF TURIN, THE VISUAL ARTIST STEFANO FARAVELLI, AUTHOR OF THE FAMOUS CARNET OF TRAVEL, AND THE DANCER AND GERMAN CHOREOGRAPH HEIKE HENNIG WILL ALL COLLABORATE TO WORK ON THE PROJECT. STEFANO FARAVELLI WILL ALSO BE THE CURATOR OF THE ROOM, IN COLLABORATION WITH PAOLO BARONI, ARTISAN OF LIGHT AND THE IDEATOR OF THE MACHINES THEATER. ARTISTIC DIRECTION WILL BE DONE BY MASSIMO LANZETTA.

Once visitors (who are transitory inhabitants) have arrived in town, they can begin their journey through “The secretissima camera de lo core”, divided into several spaces, where the memories of the inhabitants will come to life to communicate the soul of these places. The traveler, once back home, will choose the right time to process their entire travel experience and share it, through the Atlas website, with all the other emotional travelers.

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THE HOLDEN SCHOOL, FOUNDED IN 1984 IN TURIN, IS A SCHOOL THAT TEACHES STORY-TELLING. IN OVER 20 YEARS OF EXPERIENCE, THE SCHOOL HAS DEVELOPED AN ORIGINAL COURSE OF STUDY FOR TEACHING OBJECTIVES, CONTENTS AND METHODS. ITS STUDENTS STUDY TO BECOME PROFESSIONALS WHO ARE ABLE TO WORK IN ALL KINDS OF NARRATION, NOT ONLY AS WRITERS, BUT ALSO AS DIRECTORS, COPYWRITERS, SCREENWRITERS, SOCIAL MEDIA MANAGERS, REPORTERS AND AS TELE-VISUAL OR RADIO RECEIVERS. THE CRAFT IS ALWAYS THE SAME: TO NARRATE. AMONG THE FOUNDERS OF THE SCHOOL THERE IS ALESSANDRO BARICCO, THE CURRENT HEADMASTER.

STEFANO FARAVELLI LIVES AND WORKS IN TURIN. DURING HIS ARTISTIC TRAINING AT THE TORINESE ACADEMY OF ALBERTINA, STEFANO PURSUED A DEGREE IN MORAL PHILOSOPHY AND THE STUDY OF ARABIC CULTURE AND LANGUAGE AT THE “ISTITUTO DI ORIENTALISTICA”. AFTER HIS MANY TRAVELS IN THE NEAR, MIDDLE AND FAR EAST, HE BEGAN PUBLISHING HIS CARNET TRAVEL SERIES, STARTING IN 1984, WHEN "SINDH INDIAN QUADERNO" WAS FIRST PUBLISHED. FROM THEN ON, HIS "TRAVEL DIARIES" HAVE BEEN EXHIBITED IN PLACES LIKE LONDON, NEW YORK, PARIS, ISTANBUL AND JERUSALEM. IN 2011 HE DID AN EXHIBITION IN THE ITALIAN PAVILION FOR THE 54th BIENNALE DI VENEZIA.

HEIKE HENNIG, BORN IN LIPSIA, GERMANY, STUDIED PERFORMANCE ARTS IN THE UNITED STATES AND IN 2000 FORMED AN ENSEMBLE COMPOSED OF ABOUT 50 ARTISTS OF EVERY KIND. TOGETHER WITH THESE ARTISTS, HE HAS CREATED15 INDEPENDENT CROSSOVER PIECES TO DATE. HEIKE ALSO WORKS AS A DIRECTOR AND CHOREOGRAPHER FOR OPERA AND THEATRICAL PRODUCTIONS. HIS PRODUCTION "TANZ MIT DER ZEIT" 8DANCE WITH TIME, 2007) HAS BEEN ADAPTED FOR THE CINEMA AND TV. THE CREATIONS OF HEIKE HENNIG HAVE RECEIVED NUMEROUS AWARDS AND HAVE TRAVELLED THROUGHOUT EUROPE.

PAOLO BARONI WAS AN ARTISAN OF LIGHT AND AN IDEATOR AND MANUFACTURER OF THEATER MACHINES FOR OVER FORTY YEARS. HE HAS COLLABORATED AS TECHNICAL DIRECTOR AT NUMEROUS THEATRE, MUSIC AND DANCE FESTIVALS THROUGHOUT ITALY. HE HAS ALSO COLLABORATED WITH MANY THEATRICAL COMPANIES IN ITALY, AMONGST WHICH - THE RAFFAELLO SANZIO THEATRE COMPANY. HE CONDUCTS WORKSHOPS ON LIGHTING AND STAGE-CRAFT. HE ALSO DESIGNED BOLD THEATER MACHINES FOR VARIOUS SHOWS OF THE “TEATRO DEI SASSI” WHICH HAVE RECEIVED SEVERAL AWARDS AND SPECIAL MENTIONS. A ROOM DEDICATED TO HIM HAS BEEN SET UP IN THE SECRETISSIMA CAMERA DE LO CORE.