To survive signifies facing with success situations which life presents to us. We survive nature and all the events that this presents us, we survive time thanks to reproduction and the culture we pass on. We survive others by finding ways of alliance and cooperation. Every single day that we live on this earth is the result of success, of a conquest which we have made.

Experimenta 2004 proposes a reading of the theme which goes beyond the most common ways of thinking of "survival" it is not the pejorative of "to live", but is a necessary condition for all men, of any culture.

The path which you will face in the exhibition will bring you to comprehend how our creativity and our capacity to cooperate provide us with the instruments to satisfy our needs and create that continuous connection of adapting to the environment which surrounds us.
Feeding, covering/sheltering, moving/orienting, seducing/reproducing, saving one from hostile situations are the fundamental points that you will encounter along this road. Beside these you will find the culture, the capacity to create relationships and manage others, the capacity to resolve unforeseen situations.

Experimenta 2004 is a non place, in which diverse cultures and different solutions to the same problems are constantly intertwined and ask the visitor to identify themselves and to place themselves on trial.

It is not a game, but if it was, it would be called the game of life.