Geloria (Jealousy) was the name of the boat that in 2010, with the help of many friends and the public, the Italian artists pushed along the streets of a village in southern Italy during the first edition of an annual event they called "The Celebration of the Living (who reflect upon death)." The artists proposed to turn the traditional November 2nd invited those who were interested to be part of a pilgrimage, probably the shortest and slowest in the world, that departed from its destination (rather than arriving at it): Lu Cafausu in San Cesario di Lecce. In an ideal continuation of this journey, which deals with out common destiny, with the death of Courbet nearby "Duchamp's waterfall," with the origin of the world, with any erotic feeling that could match death, with coincidences, with the unexpected, with chaos…

Over the last few years Emilio Fantin, Luigi Negro, Giancarlo Norese, Cesare Pietriusti, and Luigi Presicce have been involved in a sort of common aesthetic and anthropological investigation dealing with the contradictions of both urban and metaphorical spaces, "self-generated" beauty (by chance or necessity), and the "errata" of the landscape. LU CAFAUSU, an old gazebo-shaped building located in a small town in the south of Italy, has become the inspiration for stories, performances, and actions realized in different European and American cities. The artists identified Lu Cafausu as a metaphor for something that is, at the same time, both central and marginal, where aesthetic contradictions meet the meanings (or maybe the lack of any meaning) of our time. 

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