TRACCE
Art+otherness+elsewhere. Relationship as a place of care
The TRACCE Festival was born from the encounter between SIC12 Artstudio, the San Paolo Mental Health Centre in Rome, and the experiences of mental health services in Paris with which a process of exchange and twinning has been established.
TRACCE was not created to present art as therapy, but to explore the role that art can play in building relationships, giving form to personal experience, and creating shared spaces.Every encounter leaves a trace: an image, a word, a gesture, a work of art, a memory.
The festival gathers these traces and brings them into dialogue, creating a space where artists, people who attend mental health services, professionals, students and the public can meet beyond roles and categories.
The dialogue between Rome and Paris expands this research, bringing different experiences and practices together around a shared question: how can we build communities capable of welcoming difference and recognising in others not only vulnerability, but also possibility, desire and the capacity to create?
TRACCE is therefore a place of encounter and passage. A space where art becomes a place for listening, relationship and freedom.Because caring also means recognising what happens between people.
Tuesday, 1 December
5–9 pm | Exhibition Opening
“Riccardo Bargellini. Give Me a Shadow. The Art of Relationship”, with the artist in attendance.
Wednesday, 2 December
4 pm | Cinema – Short Film Screening
Screening of short films made by students from the ITS Roberto Rossellini Institute.
5 pm | Workshop – Interweaving Art and Life
Workshop led by artist and psychotherapist Simonetta Porazzo.
7 pm | Aperitif
8 pm | Jazz Concert – A Matter of Listening
Featuring Fausto Ferraiuolo on piano, Roberto Gatto on drums, and Enzo Pietropaoli on double bass.
Thursday, 3 December
5 pm | Cinema – Short Film Screening
Screening of short films made by students from the ITS Roberto Rossellini Institute.
6 pm | Discussion – Mental Health: Towards a Happiness Under Control
A discussion with French psychiatrist Mathieu Bellahsen, author of Mental Health: Towards a Happiness Under Control and Abolish Restraint.
8 pm | Aperitif9 pm | Theatre Performance
Theatre performance.
Friday, 4 December
5 pm | Performance – Eventi Disordinalamente Group
Performance by the Eventi Disordinalamente group from the San Paolo Community Mental Health Centre (CSM).
6 pm | Discussion – Care Despite Institutions
A conversation with Nicola Valentino, founder of Sensibili alle foglie publishing house and director of Casa dell’arte ir-ritata in Naples.
8 pm | Aperitif
9 pm | Lecture-Performance – A Slightly Mad Kind of Care: The Experience of Clowning in Hospital Wards
A theatrical lecture-performance by Rodrigo Morganti and Helga Romano.
Saturday, 5 December
10 am–6:30 pm | Workshop – Are We Sure That Deviance Always Needs to Be Treated?
A workshop on organic work practices and clowning, led by Maia Cornacchia and Rodrigo Morganti.The programme is currently being finalised and may be subject to change.