GIVE ME MONEY, GIVE ME SEX, GIVE ME COFFEE AND CIGARETTES ---(?) is a transversal, multimedia and multitask project, the development of which makes use of the methods appertaining to scientific research as well as the expressive wealth of a variety of contemporary artistic forms. By means of the methodologies of scientific research, GMGS seeks to investigate the nature of happiness, or rather what happiness represents, and how it is perceived by different people in different places, with the aim of identifying a minimum common denominator, returning it then to the public through a hybrid, transversal work.
We wish to create by means of focalized interviews and sample questionnaires a catalogue of possible ways of seeing things. The initial research is fundamental and indispensable, and is carried out both through a series of field studies involving people who will be interviewed and involved in activities as well as by the creation of a multimedial catalogue deriving from these interviews. This catalogue will constitute the guideline for the final work. On different occasions, moreover, and equally indispensable to the development process of GMGS, we will open the work, through the utilisation of a variety of artistic formats (video art, performing art, visual and sound installations etc.), to a public which should be as heterogeneous as possible, called on to actively and critically participate in order to verify and measure the degree of communicability and the democracy nature of the process itself.

The material thus collected will be utilised in the final work, in which the data deriving from the scientific research will be integrated into the expressive requirements of the artistic research with the aim of developing a multilinguistic work capable of crossing national linguistic borders to communicate through other channels of perception, developing new aesthetic paradigms and overcoming the usual disciplinary barriers.

 

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