The second cycle of residencies of «Community Between Islands» is entitled «Woven by the Currents» and featured three artists: Dania Shihab, a composer born in Iraq (who lives and works between Spain and Australia), videomaker Sarah-Anaïs Desbenoit (France) and visual artist Amalia Vargas (Corsica).

Starting from Syros in Greece (6 – 15 May), they stopped in Perdaxius in Sardinia (16 – 26 May), before reaching Corsica (27 May – 11 June).
In Perdaxius, Domusnovas and Carbonia conducted workshops inspired by their research on myths, the female figure, ecology and immigration issues, deeply rooted in the Mediterranean context.
A final presentation held at the Casa del popolo in Carbonia allowed the public to discover their research and the process of creating their new works.
At the end of the 5 weeks of residency, a restitution to the public took place in the form of an exhibition at the Una Volta space, Bastia (Corsica).

The ten days in Sardinia were truly intense. The artists Sarah-Anaïs Desbenoit (video artist), Dania Shihab (composer) and Amalia Vargas (visual artist) traveled through Sulcis-Iglesiente from Sant’Antioco to Domusnovas, from Funtanamare to Montessu, collecting objects, images, sounds and stories.

They met musicist3, ingegner3, student3 and opened their artistic practice to sharing, to dialogue with local communities, also through workshops and presentations in schools and in the Casa del Popolo of Carbonia, in the spaces of the Elda Mazzocchi Scarzella Association of Domusnovas and in the woods around Perdaxius.

Special thanks to Francesco Capuzzi, Matteo Leone, Brahim Khamlichi, Emilia Brunoro, Marinella Pintus, Pietro Sabiu, Istituto S. Satta (Carbonia) and Ottovolante Sulcis (Sant’Antioco).

Sarah-Anaïs Desbenoit

This project explores the myths and beliefs engendered by landscapes.
Within the three islands, I’d like to meet with locals to learn more about the stories and myths that relate to the landscapes that surround them. With a particular focus on stories about women.
I’d also like to learn more about the symbolism of the places within the territories where we’ll be staying.

Dania Shihab

The project intends to catalogue sounds from the Islands, from a uniquely immigrant perspective. How does one perceive sounds in an entirely new environmental context? How does a stranger, being an involuntary flâneur in a foreign land, create a sonic map of a new terrain? I’m interested in how virgin sounds relate with those nostalgic vestiges of an abandoned homeland, in creating a new hybrid soundscape. I plan to capture these sounds, using a variety of recording techniques to create a final long form electroacoustic composition, using field recordings, live audio manipulation from found objects, voice and organic instrumentation.

Amalia Vargas
Ecume des flux

Characterised by a certain ambiguity between the ancient and the modern, the three
islands hosting the residency evoke sculptural forms that emerge from objects present on
each territory. Which objects do Syros, Sardinia and Corsica have in common? Plastic
residues washed ashore by the waves may point a way. In the course of my three
voyages, The artist gathered found objects and, taking inspiration from the traditional forms
and architectures of the islands (such as caryatids or balusters), create an archaeology/
archive of our time.