MAST - Music Art Sustainability Territory
visual art research
August 1 - 9, 2025, Scicli
MAST
“MAST is a totally immersive experience within Scicli. Artistic and musical research are the tools to embark on this journey where sustainability and relationship with the territory are core values that make MAST a unique moment of sharing between individuals and the community.”
For the 2025 edition, entitled VORTICE, the festival is creating a team of researchers to explore new visions in the fields of architecture, philosophy, sound experimentation and visual arts. Each will explore the theme of waste, discard, detritus through their own discipline, generating theoretical, practical and performative contributions that will feed into Long Form, Paper, Site Visit, Reportage and a public programme during the festival.
viaraffineria is entrusted with research in the field of visual arts.
STORIES OF THE LAND. PRACTICES OF RENEWAL AND WASTE REUSE is the title chosen for the contribution that explores the relationship between water, production and sustainability in south-east Sicily.
Where water once flowed, only a footprint remains. The old stream that ran through the centre of the town of Scicli has left a void, a dry channel. This absence is not just a sign of the past: it is a starting point for questioning the dwindling water resources, the drought that is transforming landscapes and the ways in which agriculture is reinventing itself in order to survive.
The research is based on the absence of one of the four natural elements, water, and how its drastic reduction has triggered a process of waste awareness in food and agricultural supply chains.
You can read the research abstract here ︎︎︎ https://www.mastfestival.com/#/
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“MAST is a totally immersive experience within Scicli. Artistic and musical research are the tools to embark on this journey where sustainability and relationship with the territory are core values that make MAST a unique moment of sharing between individuals and the community.”
For the 2025 edition, entitled VORTICE, the festival is creating a team of researchers to explore new visions in the fields of architecture, philosophy, sound experimentation and visual arts. Each will explore the theme of waste, discard, detritus through their own discipline, generating theoretical, practical and performative contributions that will feed into Long Form, Paper, Site Visit, Reportage and a public programme during the festival.
viaraffineria is entrusted with research in the field of visual arts.
STORIES OF THE LAND. PRACTICES OF RENEWAL AND WASTE REUSE is the title chosen for the contribution that explores the relationship between water, production and sustainability in south-east Sicily.
Where water once flowed, only a footprint remains. The old stream that ran through the centre of the town of Scicli has left a void, a dry channel. This absence is not just a sign of the past: it is a starting point for questioning the dwindling water resources, the drought that is transforming landscapes and the ways in which agriculture is reinventing itself in order to survive.
The research is based on the absence of one of the four natural elements, water, and how its drastic reduction has triggered a process of waste awareness in food and agricultural supply chains.
You can read the research abstract here ︎︎︎ https://www.mastfestival.com/#/
