GOALS: to create a lively moment to reflect on the possibility to be active in the change of the society and to create an harmonious relationship with the nature and its future development.

In the Ancient Greece kairos was the word to describe a particular condition both of the time and the action. It was the right time to do something because it was no longer time to hesitate or postpone. We need to look ourselves in the mirror. We need to look ourselves into the eyes. We need to find in ourselves the power to change and responsibility that will bring us closer to the others giving precedence to the respect for others, for nature, for those who will be born. You have to re-find the balance to which the Terzo Paradiso calls us. Only with this new force we can be re-born. Only with this new force we can change the world. To indicate the end of this period that we could say cyclical because it goes on as it has always done, Giovanni Longo shows the skeleton of the uroboros made with some twigs collected on a beach near his home. The uroboros is a very ancient symbol that represents a serpent eating its own tail thus symbolizing the cyclical nature of things, the theory of the eternal return and all that operate in cycles that begin anew as soon as they end. The fact that Longo represents (also in a very ironic sense) the skeleton of the uroboros is an invitation to break the cyclical and then almost passive conception of time. We need to take back control over time to reset our actions. Following with the theme of the re-birth Sabrina Muzi sets up an installation that symbolically recalls the umbilical cord. As a connection essential for the nutrition and the survival the umbilical cord is also a means of exchange and communication. Thanks to it we are born with a sense of attachment, belonging and bonding with each other. After cutting the umbilical cord and then with the loss of the initial state of harmony we are looking for a new harmonic dimension that we cannot do without that sense of belonging and connection with others that we have introjected in the months when we were in the womb. The installation made with clothes used by many people and collected by the artist, recalls a sense of union between people to become a joyous object and a ritual joining the corps. Roberta Cavallari and Lucia Anselmi created a video showing the performance in which Roberta Cavallari brings around the city of Bologna a mirror in which the nature, the people and the buildings are seen. The mirror is symbolic, as well as the kites made with mirror (that the artists designed graphically), represents freedom and discovery but also a research and truth tool with which we can amplifie and elevate knowledge. The work is one of the characteristics of the artistic practice by Michelangelo Pistoletto for which they are “an optical prosthesis that the brain uses to ask and get to know”. The mirror in this work reflects the nature and in this way us in the nature as a part of a common future and project. The event will include also a poetry reading by Ylenia Giacobone.