TOWARDS THE PREPARATION OF THE PLEXUS ART CO-OPERA 5, ON 10 December 2014, THE REVITALIZATION OF THE ECOLOGY OF PLEXUS 30 YEARS MEMORY CONTINUES INTO THE 90S MADE IN THE 80S: THE 1992 COLUMBUS RECONCILIATION FORUM ON THE WELL-BEING IN THE XXI CENTURY, CARLOFORTE, SARDINIA, 9-11 OCTOBER 1992 In early October of 1992, in Cagliari, with Lorenzo Pace, George Chaikin, David Ecker, Jose Rodriguez, Patsy Parker, Nilde Cortez, Lorando Politi, Georgetta Stonefish, and with Franco Meloni, I went to recover the little toy boat Colombina, from the old Sardinian aristocratic family Amat di Sanfilippo. The toy boat was placed there after its flight by the colourful kite of Guido Pegna, in the summer 1991, at the end of the Columbus Consortium presentation in Carloforte. On 9-11 October 1992, at the Cinema Mutua of Carloforte, in the island of San Pietro, the 1992 Christopher Columbus Consortium presented the international Symposium “Columbus Reconciliation Forum on The Well Being in the XXI Century”. Participants from 3 continents: America, Africa, and Europe (including Russia), for three days reflected upon the voyages of Christopher Columbus to the Americas as an issue of “Reconciliation” for the Well Being of the Twenty-First Century. Georgetta Stonefish Ryan of the American Indian Community House of New York made the historical photo documentation of it. David Ecker at the opening expressed in his concern about the survival in the world of the living traditions in art as it was stated in his presentation paper “Cultural Navigation”: Jose Rodriguez raised the issue on the need for a new synthesis in the community of different cultural values within a new well being paradigm. Nilde Cortez, Patrica Parker and Rolando Politi raised attention of the drammatic cultural struggling in the community of the Lower East Side of New York as symbol of the community struggling all over the world. George Chaikin presented a networking cultural navigation proposal. Lorenzo Pace carried ritually the Colombina little toy boat retrieved in Cagliari recalled his family slavery heritage. Franco Meloni, Odita Okechukwu and Lorenzo Pace presented to Mockar MBow, chairperson of the Goree Almandies Memorial Foundation, the Plexus proposal to open an Art World Bank in Goree, as an international reconciliation sustainable development project. As closing act of the Forum, The Columbus Open Call of Carloforte for Reconciliation” was issued. In the night, there was the concert Change of Route: The Voyage of the Elisabeth by Giancarlo Schiaffini, with on stage an art installation by Gabriella Locci,and in the lobby an exhibition of Plexus Black Boxes made by Maria Grazia Medda. Few day after, in Cagliari, at the Plexus Storage, Lorenzo Pace and Patricia Parker performed the continuation of Plexus art journey while George Chaikin and Sandro Dernini carried the Georges optical device blueprint around the space and looking the audience through it.
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