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4th Annual EBSN General Meeting 28-31 October 2015 – Université Libre de Bruxelles PAPER Davide C. Crimi Experience: the Making of a Happening Revisiting Ginsberg in the Beat Cosmopolitan Light THE ETNA PIPER Abstract The aim of the essay is to draw the logical framework of an experimental happening to be realized in the spirit of the beat experience of reciprocal understanding, simultaneity of presence in time and space, sharing of feelings and purpose, and something mystical too. The first point legitimating this approach is given by the celebrated opening verses of the Ginzberg's Howl, where the desperate substitution of a spiritual experience through by the addiction of some drugs is denounced as a mistake. Through by that words, collective imaginary is penetrated by the need of a new and different spirituality, to be shared beyond current religious boundaries. The second section will develop of this concept, focusing inside this the great request for spirituality emerging from the waves of beat literature, reversing jazz into rock music, pushing the Beatles in India or the Rolling Stones in Morocco. In both these choices there is a beat breathe, which can be explained through by the Ginzberg's Indian Journal in the first case, and with the Tangeri's connection in the second. Going further with these suggestions, Fondazione M is generating a happening to be held in the height of the volcano Etna, involving people from all around the world to share an experience whose result will be – together with the short essay forged within the methodology of anthropology and social sciences – a docufilm where the experience THE ETNA PIPER will be recorded, as a demo of its repliability and transferability. Short bio DAVIDE CRIMI was born in 1965 in Catania, under the volcano Etna. He studied politics, economics, anthropology and religion. Engaged in development policies at the local level, serving as project manager of several European projects (Eurocult21, Eurexcter, Interreg, Medpact, Urbact, and many others), he has specific skills for building partnerships and sharing information and documents, both at the strategic and managerial level. He worked also on research on the spiritual side of art, exploring this path writing books, composing paintings and songs and as, organizer of several magazines and publications (EUR / OPEN, Encelado, etc..). Among these, Fondazione M is a library that collects mystical and human sciences books as sources in the original languages (Hebrew, Greek, Latin, Arabic) and into major European languages (English, French, Italian). This centre houses a section of fine arts and experimental workshop called Atelier Thelema, whose aim is to revisit the common elements of rock music and cinema, considering its contribute to the modernization of society, including beatnik literature and the more advanced forms of modern art. Papers on Art as relational patterns and its modern meaning as society's transformation instrument were expressed in several conferences around universities and cultural institutions around Europe, including Integrated Relational Tourism (Helwan University, Cairo, Egypt, 2009), European Consortium for Political Research (Háskólatorg University, Reikjavik, Iceland, 2010). Specialities: Writing, Editing, Communication, Events organization Note The experience we want to express through by this study is related to the special work the Author – with his home-founded organization Fondazione M – has been carrying out, within a logical framework inside which pose an experimental action to be lived and shared in fullness of emotion and understanding. Being part of the EBSN since the first AGM, Davide C. Crimi concentrated his research on the ground of once called “non-academic sources” of beat literature, to give evidence to the special relation between beat literature and emancipation. This special approach mixes the effectiveness of the performance value of poetry with its social and political meaning. A recent essay was published in nr. X of Academicus Journal). What we are calling «Docufilm» will be the synthesis and the mix of the elements drawn in the essay's abstract, composing both an experiment on individual and collective (of the group) awareness, a retrospective on the model of the «happening» as special event to attend which people may arrive from all around the world according to the model that modern economy calls «integrated relational tourism», to be performed – after an intensive two-days residential stage – in a special naturalistic landscape (in this case, the higher side of the volcano Etna). The artistic expression is improved by a parallelism with the «Hymn to Pan» model coming from the Joujouka model, which is part of early Mediterranean mythology, offering an exceptional psychic panorama, working on something very close to archetype's deep psychology. To be experienced!