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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
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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!