Rethinking Lampedusa is a research project and art residency organized in collaboration with Northeastern University in Boston. Coordinated by Leonardo Caffo, the research group, which includes students, artists, researchers, photographers, and musicians, works on a geo-imaginary and political mapping of the island of Lampedusa, in cooperation with local NGOs like Mediterranean Hope.
The research group critically engages with the condition of the migrant, questioning the concept of borders and the idea of the nation-state, speculating on the concept of the island as a utopia where inclusive, communal, and reciprocal living is possible.
Sounds, movements, maps, photographs, and videos, along with utopian manifestos, come together to outline a new geopolitical metaphor for the Sicilian island, revealing the condition of the central Mediterranean as a lens through which to understand the contemporary world.
A logbook, an artistic notebook, keeps track of the experience year by year.
Here is the documentation of the journey.