Questo sonoro propone la traccia audio, del seminario di Maria Lai organizzato da Enrico Crispolti e Silvia Loddo durante l’anno accademico 2003/2004 della Scuola di specializzazione in storia dell’arte dell’Università di Siena.
In dialogo con Crispolti, il regista Francesco Casu, l’antropologo Pietro Clemente, gli allievi e i docenti della Scuola, Maria Lai ripercorre le trame poetiche di alcuni suoi lavori ispirati a storie inventate, fiabe e leggende e racconta i suoi esordi a Roma con Marino Mazzacurati e a Venezia con Arturo Martini; la prima accademia di belle arti fatta da bambina sulle tavole del pane e sui muri di casa pasticciati col carbone; l’importanza delle sue radici, così forti per l’artista che radicalmente puntualizza: “Io non sono nata in Sardegna. Io sono Sardegna”.
I Am Sardinia
This sound proposes the audio track of the seminar with Maria Lai organized by Enrico Crispolti and Silvia Loddo, held in the 2003-2004 academic year at the Graduate School of Art History at the University of Siena.
In the course of her exchange with Crispolti himself, filmmaker Francesco Casu, anthropologist Pietro Clemente, and the students and teachers of the School, Maria Lai retraces the threads of her poetic works inspired by made-up stories, fairytales, and legends, and she also tells her own stories, including her artistic education under Marino Mazzacurati in Rome and Arturo Martini in Venice, as well as her personal childhood art academy playing with bread dough on kitchen counters and scribbling all over walls with charcoal. She also reflects on her strong relationship with her roots, radically stating: “I was not born in Sardinia. I am Sardinia.”