The closing of ACT 4th will be presented on board the Ark of the Well Being, in collaboration with the Foundation for the Advancement of the Mediterranean Diet, in Barcelona, , at the VI International Congress on the Mediterranean Diet, March 8-9, 2006, World Women’s Day.

It is made to alert that hunger, malnutrition and food insecurity are eroding the cognitive capacities of the world. It will urge the development of “knowledge societies”, as recently stressed by UNESCO, to contribute to the well-being of individual and communities. It will present The 2005 Rome Call for a Common Action, made on 1 October, 2005, at the 3rd Forum Euro Mediterranean on Food Cultures, held at the University “La Sapienza” of Rome.

ACT 4th departed from New York, on December 10, 2005, International Human Rights Day. It was staged at the historical site of the Saint March Church in the Bowery, as a warn on the increasing erosion of all human rights for all, in particular of food Security, health, education, access to Information and freedom of expression. Act 4th was launched from New York, on December 9th, 2005, to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Albert Einstein’s relativity, on board the Plexus Ark of the Well Being, staged as an experimental digital communication between the Lehman College in the Bronx and the Physics Dept. of the University of Cagliari, in Sardinia. ACT 5th will depart from Las Palmas of Gran Canaria Island on 8 May 2006, in collaboration with www.nutricionsinfronteras.org ACT 5th will arrive on May 14 in the Medina of Dakar, Senegal, at the 3rd Triangle de l’Art Festival, organized in collaboration with the Cultural Commission of the Medina of Dakar and C.O.S.E.F.I.T, within the DakArtOff of the 2006 Biennale of Contemporary African Art. It will perform the measurement of the dramatic advancement, from 1988 to 2006, of the sea erosion in front of the Door of No Return of the House of the Slaves in Goree island. , an UNESCO World Heritage site, as symbol of all humankind erosions around the world. Act 5th will commemorate the recent death for malaria in Dakar of the young Plexus artist Alioune Badara Fall dit Prof, as a recall that too many young lives are lost every day in the world.

ACT 1st departed from the Medina of Dakar, in June 2004, at 2° Le Triangle de l’Art Festival”, within the DakArtOff of the Contemporary African Art Biennale. It raised attention of the increased sea erosion of the Door of No Return of the House of the Slaves in Goree, that Plexus International started to measure since 2000. The Door of No Return was the symbolical site where Plexus Art Slave boat escaped in 1986 from New York ArtWorld control, crossing the international sea to arrive in the summer 1987 into the Nuraghic bronze age of Sardinia.

ACT 2nd departed from Ballarat, Australia, in December 2004, for the Eureka 150 Rising Rebel Festival by Culture Lab International. It raised attention on the emu eggs’ erosion in the Maroota Plateau, a sacred Aboriginal ground, in the Blue Mountains, an other UNESCO World Heritage site. ACT 3rd departed on 28 May 2005, in Lecce, Italy, in collaboration with Raggio Verde Editions, from the Academy of Fine Arts. ACT 3rd landed on September 29 in Rome, within the pavilion Eating Art, held at the Rector Hall of the University La Sapienza of Rome, presented by the Food Science Institute of the University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Universitas Italica Foundation and EuroMediterrannean Network on Food Cultures, as part of the event 2005 Year of the Mediterranean. As conclusion of the 3rd EuroMediterranean Forum on Food Cultures, it was issued the 2005 Rome Call for a Common Action.

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