Playing with Pamuk

Playing with Pamuk (PWP) is a contemporary art project with the aim to understand how society answers one of the more urgent challenges that our civilisation faces: building a more mature and conscious intercultural society. PWP was born from the view of the trends of contemporary society, such as meeting and challenging between cultures and the difficulties of people to relate themself beyond the categories of race, religion and social class. It has been thought as a creative way to test how the contemporary man perceives himself and the others. Thought up within the 9th district of Milan, a microcosm of different cultures, the project suggests new visions and methods towards important issues of nowadays, utilising the intercultural practice as an opportunity to reassess the role of art and artists in social discourse. During the course of the project we often wondered what shape to give to research so complex. There being left behind the practice of participation and the direct link with the community, and by reversing the route to the method that had characterized the trial stage, I proposed a foray into the public space where the performative element could be the most suitable to raise a a purely artistic themes treated through messages in which the most commonly used words in the speech intercultural (other, similar, different, neighbor, stranger, ecc.) have been collected in verses organized in triplet.