VI SENSO

The project is part of a wider intervention for acceptance and connection through art for the youths of Spazio Potenziale Argolab2 and the VI municipality of Rome, with a view to both promote social inclusion and urban renewal of the periphery.

The inclusive artistic workshops of the Spazio Potenziale Argolab2 have a common thread: intervening  in the reality of psychological disability via a meeting between the scientific and the creative/artistic language of the artistic disciplines. Artistic exploration can probe one’s interior space and the upheavals in one’s emotions. The cultural and creative activities of the VI Senso provide a Potential Space where art can play a maieutic and transformative role in revealing new possibilities for expression and destiny of a territory as well as personal history, which often risk conforming to the predestination of marginalization.

The project foresees the realization of three artistic workshops weekly (Theater, Music and Visual Arts), supervised by the Health Director, who is responsible for Spazio Potenziale, and conducted by artists with experience in this specific discipline.

Another four intensive workshops are connected to the initial workshops, conducted by renown artists in the fields of Music, Theater, Dance and Visual Arts.

Specifically, the theatrical workshop is a place that welcomes and imagines a process of sharing and building stories and characters in a playful atmosphere free of judgment.

Music, a spontaneous and universal language, plays a fundamental role in fostering the opening of new channels of communication that are useful for expressing one’s emotional world.

Finally, the Visual Arts workshop foresees the creation of an art installation built around a collective ritual that involves the residents of the Ater building, which houses the Spazio Potenziale Argolab.