FREE ENTRY / Fondazione Studio Rizoma - "Between Land and Sea 2025" Open Call

For the first time, Fondazione Studio Rizoma launches an open call for proposals from local partners in the city of Palermo and international collaborators from across the Mediterranean to actively contribute to the next edition of BETWEEN LAND AND SEA 2025. Scheduled to take place in Palermo in November 2025, the Festival aims to open a public space of learning, caring, experience, curiosity, inquiry, debate, delight, outrage, speculation, transgression, imagination and action about the meanings and possibilities contained in our lives and practices.

The topic we want to explore is SIGNIFICATO, as it seems that there is a historical need to defend the meaning of words and concepts almost etymologically. As political contexts are as polarised as ever, what are the meanings and signifiers we can identify for anchorage and guidance? Looking at BETWEEN LAND AND SEA, sea (mare) has two possible roots one coming from the Sanskrit mors, death…