At 6 pm on May the 31st, by the courtyard of SS. Cosma and Damiano on the Giudecca island, Southernity opens its doors: a public meeting which investigates geographies of contemporary art focusing on the South, curated by Francesco Urbano Ragazzi with the collaboration of the Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation. Watch out though! The South is not going to be analyzed as a summit of territories located in a specific part of the map, but rather as a stance, a concept, a rhythm, a choice, an ideal. And if the conversation is going to touch the usual stereotypes, it will be in order to prove their inventive strength, the power of imagination which still can raise from them. The discussion won’t only be about a theory of the Southern Tought, but it will look at the practice and at the cultural production. Four international guests will dialogue together with the public. From the live voice of the protagonists, it will be possible to listen to the tale about experiences which have levered on localized energies in order to strongly affect over their own borders.