FIT for THE FUTURE

 


 


FIT for the Future is a three-year curatorial transformation and support project, designed to become a benchmark in the art world.


Created within the unique context of the Canton of Ticino, a region with extremely limited resources compared to similar festival projects in the rest of Switzerland, this initiative aims to respond to a profound need for renewal, not only in form but also in method.


FIT for the Future seeks to reaffirm that a festival is not a privilege, but a service to the community, a cultural engine for the region.


The project does not focus on simply replacing one leader with another, but questions how this transition takes place: the process, the care, the real possibility of building a healthy working environment together, free from toxicity, competition and pressure.


The change in leadership is therefore intended as an internal, relational, progressive movement: a time of co-curation, mutual learning and shared construction.


 


 

 




The aim is to test a sustainable transition model, without predetermining the timing or final outcome.


Paola Tripoli, artistic director, together with artist and director Simon Waldvogel – who has collaborated with FIT over the years – and the festival team, will engage in a transition process, in which the outgoing figure gradually accompanies the arrival of the new one, allowing the change to emerge organically, without disruption. The project could thus result in an actual change of direction, in equal co-curatorship or, equally valid, in a suspension of the transition if the process has not matured to the necessary conditions.
In recent years, FIT has always placed at the centre of its vision the idea that theatre only makes sense if experienced as a process that creates community. It is precisely its humanism that makes it radically different from other fields.


FIT for the Future moves in the same direction: like any authentic process, it carries with it the risk of error but also the promise of discovery.
It is an exercise in experimentation, open, fluid and aware of contradictions, which aims to offer the world of the performing arts – and beyond – an inspiring model, capable of “regenerating without cutting”.



M2Act Percento culturale Migros
is the main supporter of the transition process.


The project is also supported by Pro Helvetia – Swiss Arts Council.


 



 

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