Project description:

I don’t care (about football) is a participatory artistic project
involving the players of the Marangoni 105 football team, created
in 2011 as part of one of the rehabilitation residences of the
Udine Mental Health Department managed by the Duemilauno Agenzia
Sociale Cooperative. The title, inspired by the words of a girl
from the community, suggests how the game is not an end in itself
but rather a practice of social inclusion and integration.
Marangoni 105 is made up of service users together with its
operators and supporters. They all wear the number 14, that of the
legendary Ajax player Johan Cruijff – one of the most emblematic
proponents of total football.

Over three years of mutual understanding and hard work, workshops
were held in which, through artistic-expressive practices, there
was a choral reflection on mental discomfort and on the path
undertaken over the course of the residence. Football thus became
a metaphor for such a path and an experience of treatment.
Photographs, meetings, travel, training, stretching sessions,
performance actions, interviews, writing exercises and collages
are the actions that transform the art object into a place of
dialogue, where it is the discovery of the other and the self that
takes centre stage. The process of analysis/self-analysis turns
into a creative impetus via the appropriation and re-signification
of images. Through the cut lines around the bodies, it thus
becomes easier to investigate that ‘not’, that ‘not’ that gave the
project its name, that difficulty which is such a common trait of
existence yet to which it is very difficult to give voice, form
and meaning.