Drodesera Fies

24.07.09 - 01.08.09

PRESENTATION
Under the northern light

Drodesera fies ’09, by the light of the north, celebrates a characteristic which has always distinguished the Dro festival in the national and international limelight: its position on the imaginary line that connects our country to northern Europe.
Parting from Fies on a round-trip journey we are pushed even higher, into the cold, through the forests and beyond the rivers, lakes and the sea, across borders, following streets which have brought us to physical and ideal places where the ears were able to hear the voice of a northern sunrise.
But underneath all of that whiteness, enhanced by the snow and the reflection of ice, we find ourselves opposite something diverse and yet incredibly quotidian and familiar.
Under the refuge of masses covered by the night’s snow, in the midst of barren lands where you stare off without finding anything on which to fix your gaze, imprisoned by the accumulations of ice, lurks a new horror, something which has to do with the incarnation of fear, that which seems to numb and paralyze us in the clear mistrust of a frightening tomorrow.
A festival, which knowingly plays with the new, unconventional horror aesthetic or a frightening reflection of our society? That which the artists singularly have to say and interpret will be discovered in the magic of the vision, in a personal and unique relationship, instinctive and devoid of intermediaries. What we, together with the D’09 project, would like to share with you, however, is a hidden message: in the ice and under the blinding light and amongst the sounds and in the grass. A message which we have robbed along the path of creation, carrying it all the way here. Drodesera wants to deliver this message directly to the public, to those who decide to cross the bridge, to go through the gate and immerse themselves in the air of a place which, year after year, maintains and bolsters the energy of whomever has passed through its rooms, whomever has taken a walk in its park, of whomever has sat or will sit in the stands, in the grass or on the concrete. To you who are here. The light of the north now has one face. And something to say.

INFO: www.drodesera.it