FIT for the Future
This is a transformation project that aims to become a model project in the artistic field. The aim of this three-year project, providing curatorial training and support, is to enable a new person to be a key figure in the future of an independent art institution (in this case a festival), making a gradual, harmonious and generational transition into a top role.
A possible future handover that does not result in a «clean cut»; rather, it develops strategies to generate change and development, while preserving and protecting the continuity of the project. In recent years, the main thrust for the FIT has been the assumption that theatre only makes sense if it is understood as a process that creates community; it is its humanism that makes it different from everything else.
As a unique transformation project FIT want to define it as a step-by-step process capable of astonishing and surprising us. Like any process, it carries with it germs of success and failure. It is an exercise in experimentation open to contradictions.
WHO
- FIT International Festival of Theatre and the Contemporary Scene – Lugano
- Paola Tripoli (FIT Festival artistic direction)
- Simon Waldvogel (an artist and director who has already collaborated with the FIT in past years as an organisational assistant and host of post-show events with artists),
- FIT team
WHAT/HOW
- Participatory and inclusive transformation project over three years
WHY
- Project developed as a work process to avoid the «clean cut» in independent art institutions/festivals
VISION
- Project aims to become a model project, a source of inspiration and orientation for staging the arts as well as for other artistic fields.
People involved
Paola Tripoli, artistic direction
Simon Waldvogel, project recipient
In collaboration with the FIT team
Katia Gandolfi, assistant and special projects manager
Belma Dizdarevic de Marchi, secretarial and production staff
In collaboration with other national and international theatre organisations