On Saturday, June 23rd, from 12.00 am to 4.30pm at the Istituto Svizzero di Roma, the Draftsman Congress will focus on the dramatic facts of the Diaz school and of the G8 of Genova 2001. Through drawing the artists of Crack! will express their opinions on these facts and events which, 11 years later still remain open wounds of the recent history of the Republic of Italy. The artist from Crack! will support the appeal 10×100, a campaign that underlines how politically involved the judiciary’s choice of recurring to the offence of devastation and plundering for 10 people with 100 years fo jail is. A campaign that does not allow those 10 to be scapegoats paying for struggles that belong to everyone and that builds a moment of solidarity and closeness. A communication campaign that employs different tools and that is able to involve all society in a fight for freedom.
Crack! is an international festival of comics, printed and drawing arts, which began seven years ago and which takes place at the Forte Prenestino of Rome. On the occasion of the 7th edition, from June 21st to 24th a group of artists, illustrators and comic strip artists will participate at the Draftsman Congress.
Several people and collectives from all around the world participate each year at Crack!. The event has taken the dimensions of an actual network without borders for artists who support a system of distribution and production of art that is based on sharing, exchange and self-production. Crack! has become a point of reference for all those who are working against copyright, supporting the license of creative commons and copyleft in order to preserve the intellectual labour, transforming it into a kind of cultural capital for humanity. The power of drawing will propose a new kind of knowledge and alternative rules for living in common: Crack! is the ideal place in which to experience time in a way that is “non linear, chaotic and osmotic”, producing moments of political culture which are capable of escaping the conceptual prison of the current economic crisis.