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Considering the questions arisen from Altofest on a more theoretical and existential level, an interesting research path has been offered by an etymological analysis of the term displace, which brings together the suffix dis – which means ‘far away’, ‘apart’, ‘separated’, but also ‘having a privative, negative, or reversing force’– and the verb ‘place’, meaning ‘collocating, situating, putting in a given place’. In fact, this word seems to evoke a self-contradictory movement, which is difficult to conceive: a movement which seems to go in the direction of a given place, with the aim of causing its loss, a gesture which puts something in relation with space and at the same time separates it from the space itself. In this perspective, the term ‘displace” evokes also numerous situations which reveal how the contemporary relation with space becomes confused, contradictory, complex. “Space becomes a question to us” as Georges Perec wrote. Starting from this meaning of the verb displace, we have looked at Altofest and the processes it generates as a field of experiences, where to comprehend how the relationship with spaces becomes problematic nowadays. edited by Silvia Mei and Loretta Mesiti cover and book design by Davide Sforza for English translation and revision, special thanks to Rosa Coppola, Anna Estdhal, Carlo Eugeni, Serenella Martufi, Rossella Mazzaglia, Angelo Romagnoli and Anna Trono Produced by Valletta 2018 Foundation TeatrInGestAzione and Altofest - International Contemporary Live Art with the support of Ambasciata Italiana a Malta - Istituto Italiano di Cultura La Valletta Mactt - Mediterranean Academy of Culture, Tourism and Trade this book features a link to On the Dust Island A documentary film crossing by Altofest Malta 2018 filmed by Giuseppe Valentino Copyright © Valletta 2018 Foundation - all rights reserved Exchange Buildings, Republic Street, Valletta, VLT 1117 © TeatrInGestAzione, 2018 - all rights reserved Via mezzocannone, 19 - 80134 Napoli valletta2018.org - altofest.net typed in Malta by Printcare Press - October 2018