Look Around Exhibition of Countries and Regions

“Look around” is the phrase that started the process of getting to know this place, and was then developed through collective work. We wanted not only to look around the site of the former slaughterhouse but also to feel its smell, the texture of the walls of its buildings and its audiosphere. All these ways of experiencing the space and thinking with it have influenced the main directions of research and artistic activities we are pursuing in creating the exhibition. They concern animal-human relationships and histories, food production, multi-sensory, embodied and attentive being in a space, and the skin as a zone of contact, a surface of feeling and communication.

The pavilion will be created as an installation, expanded by sound walks that follow the paths laid out as part of the artistic and research process. The pavilion will transform throughout the exhibition and incorporate the traces left by visitors. It will be the result of processual work, while at the same time being itself a work in progress. An important aspect of this year’s exhibition is that it is being created as part of a collective process involving artists, researchers, architects, activists and curators. Decisions on the shape of all its elements – the installation located in the pavilion, the sound walks and the book – are made collectively, and the form of the various research and artistic activities carried out as part of the project emerges from a process of interaction between different sensibilities, competencies and perspectives.