FESTAS 2026
Locations
NEXUS are connections, ties, relationships, and intersections between themes and disciplines, between sensory and cerebral experiences, between emotions and knowledge, between people, across time and space.
NEXUS is a journey to the places where art and science collide, an exploration without a map, without a predetermined itinerary, guided by five key words: Nature, Environment, Xxi Century, hUmanity, Society. A skewed acrostic that will inspire artists and scientists in their productions and engage spectators.
NEXUS is the first experiment of FESTAS, a series of events that examines the complexity of the world we live in, and the world that awaits us, from multiple perspectives, exploring the connections between human activities and the environment, between nature and society, without simplifications, with awareness, and with emotions.
The first edition of FESTAS will coincide with the final assembly of the European project The HuT – The Human-Tech Nexus, funded by Horizon Europe and coordinated by the University of Salerno. The forty-eight-month project is exploring the relationship between governance, human behavior, and technology in managing weather-induced risks, amidst a growing climate emergency. FESTAS aims to evolve, in festival form, activities at the intersection of science and art that have already developed within The HuT project.
- Michele Calvello
Artistic-scientific director
- Guido Rianna
Artistic-scientific vice director
- Andrea Mattiello
Artistic curator
- Maria Vittoria Gargiulo
Artistic curator
- Enzo De Novellis
Artist
- Alberto Tadiello
Artist
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Artist