Mediterranea 16 | Errors Allowed - Young Artist Biennial

  • Alba Pedrini
Mediterranea 16 is the sixteenth edition of the Biennial of Young Artists from Europe and the Mediterranean, born on 1985 and promoted by the International network Bjcem.
Freshly re-designed, the Biennial has a new name and invites for the first time in the history of this event eight curators with different perspectives and cultural backgrounds to work on the awkward relation between the over-national relation of an art Biennial and the radical specificity of the territories that constitute the Bjcem network.
With Errors Allowed, the concept at the base of Mediterranea 16, the curators team is promoting a critic reflection on traditional “information regimes” and knowledge and training systems, by questioning their vertical institutionalization. The team also works on the search of those segments – sometime collectives but more often led by individuals – of self-education and informal learning that today are characterizing the more original and more meaningful experiences of knowledge production, ranging from the art and reaching any aspect of sociality, of cultural sectors and of the politics.
The curators designed a grid of contents and in it they inserted the participation of the invited artists thanks to a palimpsest of eleven chapter informed by existential and cultural conditions as well as by the main philosophical currents: Vanishing Utopias, End of Modernism, Sometimes making something leads to nothing, Library, Tiers Paysage, Panorama, Semantic of Emotions, Crisis of Representation, Schizopolis, Actions, Memory of the Present. 
Mediterranea 16 has hosted more than 200 artists selected thanks to a International Call promoted by Bjcem in close cooperation with all the associated partners in Europe, Middle East and North Africa.