I’m at a workshop with the Nomadic University’ a european-wide netowork of artists, business and activsts, investigating the possbilitie sof aesthetic intervention and activism. This meeting, organized by world famous Michelangelo Pistoletto at his Cittadellarte foundation in Biella Italy, contains interventions by lovediffererence.org, an artistic moment for an InterMediterrranean Politic, the Italian stalker group a laboratory for architecture and activism and the Egypt based El Akdar project (no website), a group of activists who used art and aesthetic intervention in bolstering the developmental dynamic of an Egyptian fishermen’s village.

Everyone seems to agree that the way forward for activism is aesthetic intervention, and that are, having exhausted its increasingly self referential development in the last century needs to be come ethical : As Pistoletto claimed in his opening speech: ‘Art now needs to engage with its surroundings and become an ethical practice’