MEMORIA D’ACQUA.
With and by Gabriele Marconcini. Curated by pluto in scorpio (Lorenzo Pennati, Paola Pietronave, Arianna Sollazzo)
Fourteen years ago 26 million Italian citizens said something simple and revolutionary:
No profit from water
It was 2011, the year when, on the 12th and 13th of July, took place the referendum to decide on nuclear energy, legitimate impediment, public water, water and profit. The outcome was a clear, popular and collective choice, a promise to protect the right to water forever.
That promise is still there: forgotten and almost betrayed, systematically opposed by attempts to review it, reduce it and bypass it.
Public institutions now take on the role of the private. Profit flows back in, silently, where it was once rejected. The will of the people slips through our hands—like water.
But water remembers.
And so do we.
In this episode Gabriele Marconcini — teacher, journalist, and former councilor of the municipality of Sansepolcro (Arezzo) — helps us recall a historical moment. Memory is a form of resistance. And water remains a commons, still in need of care and protection.
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Gabriele Marconcini is born and raised in Sansepolcro, and studied in Bologna and Florence, where he trained mainly in Humanities. After graduating and working as a research fellow at the University of Florence, he entered the world of education as a teacher of Italian Language and Literature, History, and Geography. From 2016 to 2021, he was Councilor for Culture, Education, and Commons (Beni Comuni) for the Municipality of Sansepolcro. He is also a member of the Order of Journalists of Tuscany and, since January 2023, has been collaborating with the online newspaper TTV.it.
