A festival with many events in different places of Town Hall I, featuring video installations, guided tours, site-specific performances, and a photographic exhibition to inaugurate the EMoT Tree Museum. The EMoT Tree Museum is a widespread, digitized, free, and accessible museum: a path of 12 precious trees located in the historic center of the city.
19 April at 16.00: Inaugural Talk at the Botanical Garden of the Orangery to reflect on the importance of a green culture with Sabrina Alfonsi, Councillor for the Environment of the Municipality of Rome; Fabio Attorre, director of the Botanical Garden, Sapienza University of Rome; Prof. Giorgio Vacchiano, professor in Forest Management and Planning at the State University of Milan; Francesca Rachele Oppedisano, curator at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni; the artist Michele Guido; Daniele Taffon, responsible for the environment and biodiversity at Foundation Campagna Amica; Lara De Angelis and Pierpaolo Fabrizio, creators and curators of the EMoT Tree Museum; Arianna Fusco, Emiliano Proietti Pannunzi, Roberta Petronio, and Martina Closes from The Sect of Extinct Poets with a performance/reading.
Also scheduled are numerous tours along the path of the 12 trees, 3 video installations by the FLxER collective in different squares of the center, and a site-specific performance by the artist Silvia Girardi.
Arranged on 3 floors, the multidisciplinary exhibition “Piani Verdi” hosts the works of various artists, from “Planet Fungi” by Stephen Axford and Catherine Marciniak to the documentary film “Bruno Latour – the ultimate interview” by Camille De Chenay and Nicolas Truong, and the photo exhibition by Valentina Bellomo, Giacomo Ciangottini, and Davide Palmieri.
EMoT-Museo degli Alberi is a project of Bluecheese Project funded by the European Union – Next Generation EU – PNRR Digital Transition for Cultural and Creative Bodies, with the patronage of the Department of Agriculture, Environment, and Waste Cycle.
EMoT Festival is the winner of the Public Notice promoted by Roma Capitale in collaboration with Zètema Progetto Cultura.
