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Saluti e Baci is multidisciplinary project framed as a fictional travel agency that engages with socio-environmental issues.
By reimagining traditional travel iconography, Saluti e Baci explores the intersections of visual arts  and environmental crises by highlighting the impacts of harmful human activities, extreme natural events and broader socio-environmental crises.

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Saluti e baci disclaims all economic and moral responsibility for damage to property, animals, and people resulting from climate change, floods, wildfires, extinction of one or more species, mass migrations, food scarcity, resource supply wars, and civil unrest. Please travel responsibly.

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THE WEIGHT OF AIR

An installation designed as a pop-up travel agency. This time Saluti e Baci focuses on Air Quality.
During the performance. I would sit inside, ready to welcome travelers from the audience who could approach the desk and request a trip to any destination in the world.




Inside the structure, visitors can delve into detailed information about air pollution and the innovative methods used to measure it.


As quick as possible, I’d use black ink on vibrant colored paper to create a unique postcard for each traveler.

This personalized postcard is then handed to them, along with a boarding pass that details the travel destination, date, time, ticket number, and the real-time pollution level at that location.



The completed drawings and postcards are displayed on the structure, creating a colorful and informative tapestry of global destinations and their pollution levels.

Meanwhile, the boarding pass serves as a signed and numbered keepsake for the audience, a tangible reminder of their imaginative journey.

The color of the paper I draw on directly corresponds to the pollution level of the chosen location, providing an immediate and striking visual representation of global pollution levels.




All drawings made in about 120 seconds with ink derived from pollutant emissions on colored paper 21x29.7 cm.

The entire installation is crafted from recycled or upcycled materials and adorned with black ink produced from actual pollution emissions.







A few modifications were necessary to adapt the sets from old shows.



PEOPLE HAVE TRAVELLED TO:




POSTCARD COLLECTION 



In a not so distant time, when we were traveling or on the occasion of important events and anniversaries, there was a gesture that each of us performed almost spontaneously: sending a postcard.



It was a way of communicating to the recipient that he/she was important to us and that it was in our thoughts during pleasant moments.

Sending a postcard had a completely different weight: those who received it knew that on the other hand an "effort" and a commitment had been made.


The project aims to reflect on the speed of news nowadays and the potential of the postcard as a physical communicating object.

The postcard bringing news thus becomes a memory (a past event), a celebration (a social victory or improvement), warning (send your postcard to a negationist!) or request (send it as a petition to your petty politicians).


 SEND IT!
Pick your favourite postcards from the collection. New postcards will be release periodically.

Don’t forget recipient address and message at checkout.

I’ll personally send for you the printed postcard to the desired destinations: siblings, friends, lovers, negationists or your petty  politicians.

LOCATIONS
A month after fires tore across parts of Greece in July 2023, dozens more fires ignited within 24 hours across the country in late August 2023.

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The Trump administration announced that it would begin the formal process of selling leases to oil companies in a last-minute push to achieve its long-sought goal of allowing oil and gas drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska.
That sets up a potential sale of leases just before Jan. 20, 2021, Inauguration Day. More





The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, also described as the Pacific Trash Vortex, is a gyre of marine debris particles in the central North Pacific Ocean.  More

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The August Complex was a massive wildfire, originated on August 16–17, 2020, that burned in the Coast Range of Northern California. By the time it was extinguished on November 12, the August Complex fire had burned about 1% of California's 100 million acres of land. More


June 6th, 2023, the smoke from the fires in Canada has invaded New York and the East Coast of the United States, enveloping the cities in a smog haze and triggering air quality alerts affecting around 100 million people. More






The Red Forest is the 10-square-kilometer (4 sq mi) area surrounding the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plantwithin the Exclusion Zone located in Polesia. The name "Red Forest" comes from the ginger-brown color of the pine trees after they died following the absorption of high levels of radiation from the Chernobyl accident on 26 April 1986. The site of the Red Forest remains one of the most contaminated areas in the world today.
As humans were evacuated from the area in 1986, animals moved in despite the radiation. The flora and fauna of the Red Forest have been dramatically affected by the accident. However, it seems that the biodiversity of the Red Forest has increased in the years following the disaster.

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Summer 2023. Greece carries out its biggest ever evacuation as wildfires rage on Rhodes.

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The August Complex was a massive wildfire, originated on August 16–17, 2020, that burned in the Coast Range of Northern California. By the time it was extinguished on November 12, the August Complex fire had burned about 1% of California's 100 million acres of land.

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The MV Wakashio oil spill occurred offshore of Pointe d'Esny, south of Mauritius, after the Japanese bulk carrier Wakashio ran aground on a coral reef on 25 July 2020. The ship began to leak fuel oil in the following weeks, and broke apart in mid August. Although much of the oil on board was pumped out before she broke in half, an estimated 1,000 tonnes of oil spilled into the ocean in what was called by some scientists the worst environmental disaster ever in Mauritius. Two weeks after the incident, the Mauritian government declared the incident a national emergency.
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INSTITUTIONS, NGO’s & ASSOCIATIONS
Fridays for Future is an international movement of school students who skip Friday classes to participate in demonstrations to demand action from political leaders to prevent climate change and for the fossil fuel industry to transition to renewable energy.

Greenpeace  is an independent global campaigning network. Greenpeace states its goal is to "ensure the ability of the Earth to nurture life in all its diversity" and focuses its campaigning on worldwide issues such as climate change, deforestation, overfishing, commercial whaling, genetic engineering, anti-war and anti-nuclear issues. 

European Environmental Agency Heatwaves, floods, droughts and wildfires have become more common in Europe during summer months. What about this summer?

Pro Progressione Pro Progressione is a Budapest-based artistic hub that connects people, professions and ambitions by designing international collaborations in the field of culture. From this combination, creative ideas emerge – artists, cultural activists, scientists and experts of various fields meet and give cutting-edge answers for the questions of our age.

Sciaena  Aims to promote the improvement of the marine environment by encouraging the sustainability of fisheries and other forms of use and minimizing the impacts of pollution through knowledge, education, communication and political intervention.

REFERENCES AND EXTERNAL LINKS
What is AQI ? An air quality index (AQI) is an indicator developed by government agencies to communicate to the public how polluted the air currently is or how polluted it is forecast to become.  As air pollution levels rise, so does the AQI, along with the associated public health risk. 

LITERATURE and NOTES
We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast , Jonathan Safran Foer, 2019

FILMOGRAPHY
David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet, UK 2020, documentary

The True Cost by Andrew Morgan, 2015, documentary

Soylent Green by Richard Fleischer, USA 1973, fiction

Planet of the Apes by Franklin J. Schaffner, USA 1968, fiction



DETAILS
Saluti e Baci is a project by Daniele Catalli, 2020 - ongoing
CREDITS

The Weight of Air, 2023-2024
installation, multimedia, cm 400x350x300

Daniele Catalli -  performer (agent)
Eleonora Diana - performer (flight attendant)
Velia Papa - general direction
Alessia Ercoli - project manager
Emanuele Belfiore -  overall management
Daniele Catalli - installation project and concept
Daniele Catalli, Eleonora Diana - Installation setup
Stefania Cempini -  stage costumes
Roberto Bivona, Mauro Marasà, Jacopo Pace - technical setup
Lisa Cannarozzo - stagiaire

in collaboration with
Pro Progressione
Marche Teatro

Postcard Collection, 2020-ongoing

Daniele Catalli - drawings and concept


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