"EATING ART" The 3rd Act of the international travelling event "EROSIONS AND RENAISSANCE SHOW" will be presented from 29 Sept. to 1 Oct. 2005, at the atrium of the Rectorate Hall of the University of Rome "La Sapienza", within the exposition pavillion "Eating Art" made for the international event "2005 Year of the Mediterranean", organized by the Institute of Food Science and Nutrition of the University of Rome "La Sapienza", for more info, please check http://w3.uniroma1.it/scialim.

It will be closed, at the National Academy of Dance of Rome, on the night of saturday 1 Oct. with a gala exibition choreo event performance, conducted by Joseph Fontano.

In the Atrium of the Rectorate Hall, the exposition pavillion “Eating Art”will be staged as a journey through the Italian food patrimony to underline the healthy lifestyle of the Mediterranean Diet. This initiative is made as a creative contribution to the recent recommendation by the European Commission for common action on diet, physical activity and health.

The exposition pavilion, created as a multimedia choreography event with the collaboration of the National Dance Academy and Plexus International, will highlight the increasing erosion of the Mediterranean food heritage, and the passive behaviour which characterizes our daily lives. It will be presented as the continuation of the journey started with the Ark of Well-Being, an on-line multimedia database installation, dedicated to the protection of the world heritage which for this occasion will be addressed to the safeguard of the diversity of the Mediterranean food cultures. It will contains also information regarding all Mediterranean Countries and the nutritional value and qualitative characteristics of typical Mediterranean food products. On-line connections via the EuroMediterranean Network on Food Cultures will allow in depth examination of specific themes. The Ark of Well-Being was first presented in 1995 in Sardinia for the project "The Voyage of the Elisabeth", dedicated to the survival of the masters of the living traditions in art. Then it was presented in Rome in 1996 at the Exposition Palace by Plexus International and the Institute for the Italian American Experience, for the occasion of “Eating Art/Get the Best from Your Food/Food for All”, a special event collateral to the FAO World Food Summit, organized by the Italian Committee of the Well Being Consortium. The 1st Act of the Erosions and Renaissance Show was staged at the Medina of Dakar, in June 2004, at 2° Le Triangle de l’Art Festival”, within the DakArtOff of the Biennale of Contemporary African Art, to draw attention to the dramatic sea erosion of the Door of No Return of the House of the Slaves in Goree, an UNESCO World Heritage site, as symbol of the erosion of humankind. The 2nd Act, staged in Ballarat, Australia, in December 2004, by Culture Lab International, for the Eureka Rising Festival, 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. The 3rd Act opened on 28 May in Lecce at the Academy of Fine Arts, in collaboration with Raggio Verde Edition, to alert on the increasing erosion of the world cultural heritage and related humankind wellbeing. In particular, the overall purpose of the 3rd Act is to warn on the desertification in the Mediterranean and the increasing erosion of the diversity of Mediterranean food cultures.

The 4th Act of the "Erosions and Renaissance Show" will be staged in New York on 10th December, 2005, on the occasion of the International Day of Human Rights. 4th Act will be dedicated to the 100 anniversary of Albert Einstein’s relativism and Don Cherry’s world music heritage to continue to draw more attention on the erosion of the world’s cultural patrimony and human rights.

The final 5th Act will be staged in May 2006, at the 3rd Triangle of Art Festival, in the Medina of Dakar, on the occasion of the Biennale of Contemporary African Art. It will stress the erosion of the human rights of Food, Education and Health for All as well as will launch again a strong warn on the increasing sea erosion as well as of the desertification in Africa and in the Mediterranean.

Plexus International is a network of artists and scientists. Since its beginnings in 1982, in New York City, it has performed numerous cross-cultural experimental art events “art co-operas”, involving hundreds of artists and scientists around the world, linking the notion of “culture” as a community sustainable development resource - to the achievement of the "well-being" - as a human right for all people.