From May 19 to May 21, 2006, in Dakar, Senegal, at the Mairie of the Medina of Dakar, Plexus International will present The 3rd Triangle of Art Festival of the Medina”, within the DakarOff section of the Biennale of Contemporary African Art of Dakar.
The Third Edition of this community-based art festival will stage the “Erosions and Renaissance Show”, an international traveling co-authorship art event in five acts: Dakar, Australia, Italy, New York, Spain, Dakar.
It will be presented the measurement conducted by Plexus International, from 2000 to 2006, of the advancement of the sea erosion in front to “La Porte Sans Retour de la Maison des Esclaves in Goree (Dakar), UNESCO World Heritage site, as symbolic “erosion” of humankind universal memory, of all types of erosions, from biodiversity to human rights.
Since its beginnings in 1982, in New York, Plexus International has played a seminal role in the conception and realization of numerous cross-cultural experimental community-based art events, involving on some occasions hundreds of artists and scientists, around the world, linking the notion of "art" - as a resource for sustainable development - to the concept of "well being", enhancing the quality of life in the community. Plexus International has acted as a network for “artists in the first person”, mainly in the art communities of New York, Rome, Dakar, Sardinia, Amsterdam, Atlanta, and in Australia.