Rediscovering Rituals

Rediscovering Rituals is a work in progress that sources from the need of escaping isolation and individualism through a social engagement. Focusing on immigrants coming from South of Italy, Chiara has been conducting a research on emotions and states of mind resulted from physical separation and consequent melancholia. 

At this stage, Rediscovering Rituals presented itself as a story-telling format, sourcing from interviews Chiara conducted with immigrants living in Germany and more generally with people who happened to visit the room in Fürth during the residency. It has been a series of heart to heart conversations in which people were invited to stop their routine for some minutes, and express their present state of being, through memories of their past. 

Concept: Chiara Fersini (2024)

First part of the research has been supported by kultur.lokal.fürth.