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A dream of white
"The moment everything closed, I immediately began memorizing texts, poems. It was always something I did in difficult times, even in the past. The first poem was composed by Arsenij Aleksandrovic Tarkovsky about a child who recalls seeing a white nurse from his hospital bed when he became ill. I also thought of the color white during the pandemic: others were enveloped in a white glow."
Isadora Angelini is an award-winning independent actress, dancer and director. She performs at international festivals like Santarcangelo. In 2006, she cofounded Patalò Theatre company with Luca Serrani.
Project Elisabetta Zavoli and Stefania Prandi
Photo by Elisabetta Zavoli @elizavola
Words by Stefania Prandi @stefania.prandi
Setting by Elisabetta Zavoli, Stefania Prandi, Luca Serrani
Styling and Make up by Elisabetta Zavoli and Isadora Angelini
Location ex-Corderia Santarcangelo (RN), Italy
Assistant Luca Serrani @luca_serrani
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“Fear of not making it”
Project Elisabetta Zavoli and Stefania Prandi
Art director Elisabetta Zavoli
Photo by Elisabetta Zavoli @elizavola
Words by Stefania Prandi @stefania.prandi
Setting by Elisabetta Zavoli
Styling and Make up by Elisabetta Zavoli and Silvia Gribaudi @gribaudisilvia
Location Campo Teatrale, Milano (MI), Italy
The pandemic is reshaping people's fears and anxieties. For those who work in the art world, uncertainty has prevailed over the rest, for a long time, with the great fear of not making it.
“The important thing is not to be taken by the fear of not existing. In a work as ephemeral as art it is easy fearing of not existing, from one year to the next, also economically. The more you get older the more frightened you are because one year you work and then maybe the show doesn't go as well as before, so you don't work anymore. When I have a great fear, I know that I also need an act of great courage. How does courage feel? I know the emotion of fear very well, but what colour does it have, what does courage taste like? Maybe what I call fear is courage? The pandemic has motivated me even more to embrace things fully, not to be afraid of the pieces of me that are perhaps more fragile”, stated choreographer Silvia Gribaudi in her interview.
Silvia Gribaudi is an Italian award-winner choreographer who also specializes in performing arts in general. She has taken part in several artistic research projects. Her shows have been featured in a number of national and international festivals and are the result of a creative process that focuses on dialogue and on the poetic encounter with other artists, dance companies, and communities. She founded ZEBRA Cultural Association, together with Chiara Frigo and Giuliana Urcioli, in order to support and promote the research and works of several independent performing artists.
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Mak Muji, 56 years old, is bathing Aska Raffasya, the newborn baby of Suherman and Mariati, in front of their shack among recycled garbage bags. The parents work as trash pickers, like Mak Muji, and live in the same village, Ciketing Udik, the biggest one among the three settlements of poor people arose inside Jakarta's landfill area. Mak Muji is also the only midwife, inside the community of trash pickers, who helps the pregnant women giving birth, for free. Bekasi, Java, Indonesia, 19th November 2017.
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On the top of the highest heap waste in Bantar Gebang landfill, Mak Muji's tent (on the left) stands together with other trash pickers' tents on the smelling floor, at night. The tents are the places where trash pickers pile up bags full plastics and other items they pick up while scavenging among garbage, before taking them down in order to sort them and sell segregated materials.
The eerie reddish light comes from machines and scavangers' head lights working all night long in a different area of the dumpsite. Bekasi, Indonesia, 10th May 2018
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The geomembrane covering a part of Bantar Gebang landfill, which has already reached the maximum waste capacity, looks like an eerie deep black sea in the reddish light coming from machines and scavangers working all night long in a different area of the dumpsite. Bekasi, Indonesia, 10th May 2018
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Sekotong Tengah, Lombok, 2014. A jewellery seller, in a rural village, is showing a big nugget of gold. In his shop, gold is sold 250 000 Rupia (about 16 euro) per gr.
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Sekotong Barat, Lombok, 2014. The soil dug from an underground tunnel inside a hill around Pelangan village. Every 30 kg of ore, which corresponds to one bag, only around 1 gr of gold can be extracted.
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Sekotong Barat, Lombok, 2014. The closed entrance of an abandoned tunnel, on a hill around Pelangan village.
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Sekotong Barat, Lombok, 2014. A miner is going down in the well leading to his underground tunnel, inside a hill around Pelangan village.
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Sekotong Barat, Lombok, 2014. Inside a hill around Pelangan village, a miner, in his underground tunnel, is enlightened by his head torch. Temperature inside tunnels is about 38 Celsius degree.
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Sekotong Barat, Lombok, 2014. On a hill around Pelangan village, miners dig by hand a big well to collect ore for extracting gold.
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Sekotong Barat, Lombok, 2014. A cyanidation site around Pelangan village: during the processing of the sediments from the tailing pond, a worker is receiving some refreshment from the water used in the process.
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Pakerum ASGM district, Taliwang, West Sumbawa, 2014. A miner is smashing rocks while another one is uploading water and soil in the grinders ready for the extraction phase. Usually, each grinder can mill 5 kg of soil and needs 100 gr of liquid mercury to extract gold. It runs for 3 hours before the extraction phase has been completed.
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Kertasari district, Taliwang, West Sumbawa, 2014. A miner of a combined mercury-cyanidation site is burning mercury-gold amalgam at the open air, without any kind of personal protective equipment. This is the most dangerous phase of the ASGM activities: when burning the amalgam, mercury vaporizes and, if breathed, it can directly enters the body and accumulated, causing irreversible kidney dysfunction and degeneration of the nervous system.
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Sekotong Tengah, Lombok, 2014. In a rural village, a raw gold dealer is showing how the amalgam looks like before burning the mercury (small grey sphere) and after burning out all the mercury (pure gold sphere).
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Sekotong Barat, Lombok, 2014. Agis, 13 years old, is standing on the area where the cyanidation plant was located one year ago. His family used to run the plant in the small Gili village. In 2012, the mercury concentration in Agis hair was double the WHO standard level for mercury in human hair. All around, there are rice fields: neither barriers nor protections divide the fields from the polluted soil of the cyanidation site. No remediation plan has been scheduled to clean the area.
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Sekotong Barat, Lombok, 2014. A cyanidation site around Pelangan village: the water and the sediments of the tailing pond are full of cyanides and mercury, highly toxic for biota and vegetation.
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Taliwang, West Sumbawa, 2014. The wife of Hariyanto, 24 years old artisanal gold miner, is holding a bottle full of liquid metallic mercury which they keep beside their bed in the tiny hut where they live with a 20 months old daughter. They have migrated from Lombok to West Sumbawa because he found it easier to earn money in the artisanal gold mining than as street seller. Mercury is a highly neurotoxic and teratogen element.
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Kartasari district, Taliwang, West Sumbawa, 2014. A cyanidation site made of reaction silos and tailing pond is located just in the middle of forested hills, close to river ways, and have neither protection nor barriers to prevent environmental pollution. Miners use the cyanidation process to extract the gold remaining in the sludge after amalgamation with mercury, so that the sediments in the tailing pond are full of cyanides and mercury.
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Kertasari district, Taliwang, West Sumbawa, 2014. Beni, 42 years old, starts working in ASGM in 1988. He owns the biggest batch of grinders (80 units) and cyanidation silos in Taliwang. He comes from Sumbawa and has been working as miner all around Indonesia (Kalimantan, Sumatra, Java, Lombok and Sumbawa). When moved back to Taliwang, he has earned so much money that he could build 2 houses, buy 7 motorcycles and 2 cars.
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The traditional Indonesian throwing net for catching fish and shrimps, called "jala", hangs down a mangrove tree of the species Rizhophora Stylosa, on the coast of Sawah Luhur village. Banten, Java, Indonesia, 2014.
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Just before dawn, Mr. Babay, 30 years-old shrimps farmer, checks his bamboo trap, called "bubu," that he has pulled out of his pond's main canal, in Sawah Luhur village. This trap, used to catch shrimps, has a slot inside so, once shrimps enter, they can't escape. The development of intensive and extensive shrimps aquaculture is the main reason for the loss of mangroves forests in Indonesia. Banten, Java, Indonesia, 2014.
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The catch of shrimps and fish, from a mangroves-restored farming pond in front of Sawah Luhur village, is poor during the first years of restoration because the ecosystem has not completely recovered. Banten, Java, Indonesia, 2014.
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A worker of an extensive farming pond walks in the water up to his hips, while distributing "Samponen", in front of Sawah Luhur village. "Samponen" is a molluscicide sometimes used by farmers in great quantities in order to kill fish in the pond. It is distributed at midnight, left to act for a couple of hours, then dead fish float to the surface, making the catch faster, on time for the fish to be sold "fresh" at the morning market. After this treatment, the pond becomes a sterile environment, taking at least four months before being able to host life again. Banten, Java, Indonesia, 2016.
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The wooden hut of Mr. Omiyadi, 27, under the full moon light, stands among the mangroves bordering his "tambak". Mr. Omiyadi is the youngest fisherman who joined the project of mangroves restoration developed by NGO "Wetlands International Indonesia Program" in Sawah Luhur village. Banten, Java, Indonesia, 2016
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The shore in front of Sawah Luhur village is lighted by a red light torch. If mangroves had blood, the 54000 km of Indonesian coastline would be indelible stained with red as a result of the massive land reclamation taken place in the last thirty years. Banten, Java, Indonesia, 2014.
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A child is bathing in the highly polluted waters of the main river running across Sawah Luhur village. Garbage, industrial waste and sewage, coming along with the rivers from inland settlements, end up at the farming ponds. Banten, Java, Indonesia, 2014.
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A water snake, likely killed by a shrimps farmer, lays on the sun-cracked bank of an extensive farming pond, in front of Sawah Luhur village. Since the clear cut of mangroves has begun in the late 80's, wildlife has decreased because of the loss of the ecosystem. Banten, Java, Indonesia, 2013.
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Two farmers smoke in front of their fishing hut, under a full moon night in Sawah Luhur village. Fishermen have to look after their traps all night long in order to avoid the theft of shrimps by other villagers. Banten, Java, Indonesia, 2016.
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Mr. Kaspudin, 54 years-old shrimps farmer, enters his pond surrounded by young mangroves trees that he started to plant six years ago, when he decided to join a project of ecosystem's restoration and changed from intensive aquaculture to sustainable ponds farming. Sawah Luhur village, Banten, Java, Indonesia, 2014.
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A pair of a farmer's working pants lays to dry on the sluice of one of the main canals that bring sea water to the extensive shrimps ponds in front of Sawah Luhur village. Banten, Java, Indonesia, 2015.
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A bag of nutrients for shrimps emerges between the sun-cracked mud on the bank of a farming pond in Sawah Luhur village. The clear cut of mangroves destroys the ecosystem so farmers are forced to buy nutrients, feed, additives, molluscicides and other chemicals to grow shrimps and fish. Banten, Java, Indonesia, 2016.
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Hasan Abdullah, a young shrimps farmer who cares of 7 extensive farming ponds over 2 hectares. Banten, Java, Indonesia, 2016
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Supiro, 32 years-old shrimps farmer, picks up the shrimps trap from his pond, at sunrise, in Sawah Luhur village. He is one of the youngest fishermen to join a project of mangroves restoration, run by NGO "Wetlands International", focused on helping farmers changing from extensive aquaculture to sustainable pond farming. Banten, Java, Indonesia, 2014
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Mr. Timan, 51, shrimps farmer, stands up with his legs covered in mud on his pond's bank in Sawah Luhur village. He holds a bamboo scoop with which he dredges by hands the canals bringing sea water to his ponds. Since this coastal valley has been reclaimed for extensive shrimps farming, the land has been deeply modified by man's handiwork. Banten, Java, Indonesia, 2014
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Under the reddish moonlight of a "blood moon", a lonely mangrove tree can be seen standing as the last bastion of the pristine mangroves forest once covering the coastal valley of Sawah Luhur village. Banten, Java, Indonesia, 2014.
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Mrs. Nur Chayati, 50, poses in front of the batik she has made in the coastal village of Mangunharjo. After observing that mangroves bark gives a permanent brown dye, Nur formed a group of 13 women to produce artisanal batik with natural coloring. Their patterns draw inspiration from the nature around their village: birds, fish, trees. Not only fishermen benefit from mangroves restoration but also women, whose economic independence can be fostered by the several uses of mangroves products such as natural dye, food ingredients, medicines. Semarang, Central Java, Indonesia, 2016.
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Women in Mangunharjo village work together at the production of handmade batik with natural dyes. In the first phase of the process, women draw with liquid wax on the canvas. Semarang, Central Java, Indonesia, 2016
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Nur Chayati, 50, holds some mangrove's fruits (sp. Avicennia Marina) with which she's going to prepare a cake. The community of Mangunharjo village has learned how to use mangrove's goods in a variety of fields: friuts for cooking, dried seeds of Rhizophora species for dyeing traditional batik, lymph of Avicennia Marina for traditional medicines, soap from Xilocarpus Moluccensis sp. Semarang, Central Java, Indonesia, 2014.
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Romdana, 48 years-old, poses in his pond full of mangroves trees, in Sawah Luhur village. He joined a project of mangroves restoration, run by NGO "Wetlands International", focused on helping farmers changing from extensive aquaculture to sustainable farming. Banten, Java, Indonesia, 2016
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The mangroves nursery run by "Prenjak" Community is located on the coastline of Tapak village. Young plants are partly for sale and partly used to reinforce the coastal protection of the village against sea currents erosion. "Prenjak" Community promotes maintaining of the local tradition called "wanamina", that means running farming ponds based on mangroves ecosystems, which border every pond, thus providing fish and shrimps with food, oxygen, shelter, spawning ground. Semarang, Central Java, Indonesia, 2016
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Arifin, 29, in the foreground, is the president of "Prenjak" Community, for protecting the mangroves of Tapak village. Behind him, Aris, 20, is the responsible for relations with foreign media and Nur, 21, the treasurer. The association's aim is to protect mangroves according to the traditional wisdom passed on by the elderly. Semarang, Central Java, Indonesia, 2016.
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Some flooded farming ponds, in Kendal Regency, few kilometers west of Mangunharjo village. Without the protection of mangroves, coastal areas are more prone to frequent marine erosion and flooding due to rising sea level. Semarang, Central Java, Indonesia, 2016.
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Some pictures taken by Mr. Sururi, 58, during the huge flood event in 1996 occurred in the ponds area of Manguharjo village, during which sea currents eroded 150 hectares of land, not protected anymore by mangroves. Semarang, Central Java, Indonesia, 2013.
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Inside the wooden house of Kasrudin, 38, the wall is covered in family pictures. Thanks to the stable income coming from restoring mangroves on his farming ponds, Kasrudin has been able to build his own house in bricks, in Sawah Luhur village, a year later than this picture has been taken. Banten, Java, Indonesia, 2014
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Mrs. Pasijah is the only resident remained in the flooded village of Bedono. Demak, Central Java, Indonesia, 2016.
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Mangroves of Avicennia species have colonized the coastal village of Bedono. About 10 years ago, the village has been abandoned because completely flooded by sea water. All the wooden houses decomposed forming the substrate on which mangroves have grown up again. Demak, Central Java, Indonesia, 2016
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A flooded portico of a former mosque is one of the few ruins remaining in the coastal village of Bedono. About 10 years ago, the village has been abandoned because completely flooded. Demak, Central Java, Indonesia, 2016.
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Mr. Haji, 65, for over 40 years has been head of the forestry police in the coastal village of Sawah Luhur, with the task of protecting the last remaining area of primary mangroves forest, a nesting site for various species of migratory birds. In 2014, Haji retired and joined a group of families participating in a mangroves restoration project on farming ponds, supported by the NGO "Wetlands International Indonesia Program". Banten, Java, Indonesia, 2013
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An aerial view of the remaining primary mangroves forest on the coast of Sawah Luhur village. These ancient mangroves are vestiges of the coastal forest that once covered the island of Java. Banten, Java, Indonesia, 2016
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Mr. Supiro, 32, shrimps farmer, plants mangroves propagules in his pond in Sawah Luhur village. He is one of the youngest fishermen to join a project of mangroves restoration, run by NGO "Wetlands International Indonesia Program", focused on helping farmers changing from extensive aquaculture to sustainable farming. Banten, Java, Indonesia, 2016
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The fist of Kasrudin, 38, holds some white legs shrimps (Penaeus Vannamei), freshly caught in front of Sawah Luhur village. Banten Java, Indonesia, 2016
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A handful of boiled tropical shrimps "Penaeus Vannamei". While, until about twenty years ago, shrimps were a niche product, today the huge availability of cheap tropical shrimps from aquaculture has prompted consumption. Italy, 2016.
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