On December 20, the GIUNGLA Christmas Party celebrated the festival’s archive with a live coding performance by Gabriele Favazza and Gabriele Paolini, combining images and sounds in real time.

STORTA PAURA is the first book produced by S.O.F.A. APS - GIUNGLA, a collection of poems and drawings selected from Josse Renda’s personal archive, curated by Irene Panzani, with contributions from Luca Gerry Conte, whose story resonates between the bucolic Giungla and Josse’s current works, and Pau Masclans Pazos, whose reflections accompany the book in the form of a bookmark and a puzzle.

On 6 and 7 December, in GIUNGLA’s winter home, we present Echi da GIUNGLA, a loop screening that weaves together works from past editions with pieces we have long wanted to bring into the programme.

The intention is to give expression to an uncertain world in which any sense of community is fast disappearing.

Number 22 in Piazza dell’Arancio was transformed for GIUNGLA Remix into a treasure-box theatre inhabited by the works of Josse Renda. Not an exhibition, but a narrative path that leads into the artist’s sensibility: fragile and powerful, light and profound, like a line that carves into matter or like a word that ignites vision.

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Number 22 in Piazza dell’Arancio, beneath the Torre delle Ore in Lucca, becomes the home of GIUNGLA for a while...

A speleological exploration through the GIUNGLA archive from 2020 to today with Giuditta Vendrame — open to everyone!

GIUNGLA in 2024 questions itself around the ROOTS and its drifts of meaning, calling on artists and researchers to express themselves. Today, perhaps more so than yesterday, finding a balance between attachment to one’s own land and traditions, and the desire to migrate, to break with one’s past in order to build a (better?) future elsewhere, is increasingly strong everywhere in the world.

Carmine derives from Carmelo which means vineyard, orchard, or garden. From here the barefoot Carmelites take their name, or rather from Mount Carmel which, in Upper Galilee, was a place of prayer and contemplation. This religious order, mendicant (vow of poverty), worker and aimed at an ascetic practice, had its home in the centre of Lucca, in the monastery which in the 19th century was transformed into a city market. It is interesting how there is a semantic continuity between the ancient inhabitants of this building and the future merchants, both turned to the land, to the gifts of nature, to the cultivation of a garden, of a space made of exchange and sharing, of roots and prayers.