in a wider sense, for cultural operators, art, theatre operators, precarious workers, university researchers, students and a whole generation of professionals that are difficult to classify?
are very interested on Network dynamics and Social Networks, on the other hand, you managed to get great visibility through traditional media as well (I mean Internet too, for I am not only referring to the world of blogs and independent headings, but rather to the best online newspapers). How can you explain this huge media attention caused by your occupation?
Teatro Valle: It is not easy to give answers after only four months of occupation, for the methods are coming out of what we do on a dayto-day basis. A Statuto di Fondazione Teatro Valle Bene Comune was born from the practices of this occupation and our conversation with jurists Ugo Mattei and Stefano RodotĂ ,(the first draft has been presented this 10/20 2001). In this document we have written our recommendations on how, according to us, a public good like theatre should be managed under a democratic and constitutional system of government.
Teatro Valle: Within our organization we try to operate efficiently and the resources we use are field professionals and people who, despite operating independently from us, have some investment in communication for Blogs and Social Networks practices. As for the media attention to our occupation, that happened because our press agency deals with a much broader field: not only the artistic context, but also a more broadly cultural and political one. The occupation grew stronger and bigger on a political level too, satisfying the most urgent requests of people. We are a political phenomenon, which is followed because people want to identify with the activities we do.
In general terms, we request to abolish market logics, to destroy clientelism in theatre and beyond, we ask for fair allocation of tax payers resources, public money that goes literally wasted, damaging culture in the first place. We are fighting for a common good and we want to reappropriate democratic public spaces, founded on the quality of relations and not on the quantity of money accumulated. Marco Mancuso: What is your relation with media like? On the one hand, you
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