Landmarks, Geography & Anthropogeography
Landmarks, Geography & Anthropogeography
A very important factor for the Festival is Spatiality. For us, the island of Milos is not only the place of creation and hosting of “From the sea”, but also a historical, social and human canvas on which our actions and meetings with the public and participants take place. The concepts of human geography, in situ actions and the re-inhabitation of old buildings and landmarks of Milos, compose our conceptual and artistic map – tissue, which we wish to both respect and enrich, giving it the life it deserves.
In this way, we wish to highlight the treasure of ancient and modern monuments and buildings of Milos, to share their history with the guest artists but also to give the community the opportunity to lead us under his personal eye to the stories he has to share in relation to them. Ultimately, we are trying to renew the relationship each person has with the place they live. Place is people, and people are Place. Many people together, enliven and contain the Place and the Space, through the concepts of Time and the Recomposition of the collective memory.
About the name of Festival
About the name of Festival
The name “From the Sea” arose, initially, from our geographical location. Milos, an island in the middle of the Cyclades, communicates exclusively by sea. The sea “brings” us all the people with whom we cooperate, and we ourselves co-exist from the sea and communicate with the large urban centers.
Besides, Water as a symbolism and as a concept, has always represented a “passage”, where borders and boundaries are fluid, and we basically don’t need them. The origin of the human race is also “From the sea”, as well as our first contact with the world, inside the mother’s body, in the moist environment of the womb. But the human body also consists of 70% water.
Water semiotically carries the concept of creation, continuity, collectiveness and sharing. And this creation and coexistence with the “other”, the “self” and the World we try to respect and develop, bringing it to the fore, in order to create a Common Place with the artists, the public and the community, with all the means and ways at our disposal.
