I love my bubble.
I feel good in my bubble.
I know everyone there.

And even when there is someone new, she is for sure like us.

In my bubble I feel safe.
I know the space perfectly.
Nothing changes and I like it that way.

I fit here very well. Sometimes it is so comfortable here, that I think my bubble is the only ones that exist. But then I say: what a silly thought! Where is my uncle, that weirdo? His ideas must be somewhere, even if they are totally screwed.

I start watching around and I discover that the walls of this bubble are a little transparent. Looking closely, I can see something right next to my bubble. And just a bit further, something more! I am happy there is something beyond this small space.

There must be also people inside these places.
Probably different people with different thoughts.

Different enough to keep us separated. But close enough that I can almost see someone there…

Can they see me as well?
How do we look like from there?
What do they think we do?

There should be a way to go there and see this bubble from over there.

But how?

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A “social bubble” is a social group of individuals who share interests and experiences. Groups such as “the art people from Bolzano” or “the roller skaters in the north of Rome” live with close social relations to each other. Intermezzo 1 explores how these bubbles interact and interact.

Societies can be seen as a conglomerate of large numbers of different social bubbles formed by individuals and groups, sometimes strictly separated, sometimes connected. Many different bubbles make society very diverse. If social groups do not interact with each other, society becomes highly fragmented.

We want to start from our own position and think that we are living in our “art bubble” to discuss how we can reach people outside our bubble

Before the exhibition opening, curator and art historian Vincenzo Estremo led a discursive workshop about institutional critique and how art can reach the outside of the “art bubble”. Marina Bruccoleri, social worker and responsible for social association “La Strada/Der Weg” contributed with a sociological definition of “social bubbles”.

Contributions: Alessandro Cacciotti, Federica Bruni, Fernando Garcia Mendez, Frances Drayson, Antonio Villa, Jacob Wolff, Franziska Schink, Maria Mathieu, Pascal Lampert, Pierangelo Giacomuzzi, Bianca Mann, Zoya Sardashti, Janina Lange, Michael Dlugosch, Mara Lea Hohn, Celeste Rojas Mugica, Corina Forthuber, Vincenzo Estremo, Marina Bruccoleri