I LIVE IN CONSTANT FEAR OF THE WESTERN DESCENT INTO . BUT I DIGRESS. THE CLUB IS BUMPING, THE ALCOHOL IS FLOWING, EVERYBODY LOOKS GOOD. THERE IS MUCH PAIN IN THE WORLD BUT NOT IN THIS ROOM.
VA, Curated by Ariane Sutthavong, Christy Eóin O’Beirne, Katherine Jemima Hamilton
The edition is the second half of a two-fold manifestation: an exhibition focusing on the re-eroticisation of (political) bodies, and this book, which includes texts and visual works regarding the revitalisation of language through poetry.
As a collection of poems, essays, and other textual and visual interventions from artists in Italy, the book implements poetic language as a strategy for resisting constant hegemonic appropriation. The structures of capitalism have reduced language to an exchange of information, stripping it of its affective—and therefore political—power and potential. As Franco Berardi writes in Breathing, “poetry is precisely the excess that goes beyond the limits of language, which is to say beyond the limits of the world itself.” The contributions to this publication work in this land of excess, conceiving of language, politics, and love beyond informational circulation and exchange, reinvigorating our social and political imagination. The book is edited by Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo’s YCRP 2023 curators in residence, Ariane Sutthavong, Christy Eóin O’Beirne, and Katherine Jemima Hamilton, and includes contributions by Riccardo Benassi, Sandra Cane, Ilenia Caleo, Giulia Crispiani, Andrea Lo Giudice, Flavia Tritto and an interview with Franco "Bifo" Berardi.
In this room we gather together to listen, to learn again something we already know. A fair world exists, we’ve already been there. If it wasn’t us it was them, they can tell, we can listen. Their words are sweat, spores, cells—contagious, they infect us, or they might, we might desire the same cravings, to chant the same slogans, to speak of justice. To imagine bodies piling over other bodies, after bodies, each image we see full of bodies,
bodies everywhere.
Giulia Crispiani
Throughout the book: Riccardo Benassi’s archive of screenshots that make up Daily Desiderio expands the idea of “the event” as a new connection; Sandra Cane embodies the agony of severance spanning cytoplasm, traversing continents, and measuring ‘the distance between us’; Ilenia Caleo writes about the body through the convergence of subjectivities, confusing one point of view for another; a stranger’s or a lover’s for her own; Giulia Crispiani’s undefinable linguistic framework creates an intimacy for lovers who are unknown to each other that is certain one minute and impossible the next; Andrea Lo Giudice appropriates found text, dislodging phrases from their original austere, predictable metre, reshaping them into irregular, syncopated rhythms too erratic for capitalist logic to comprehend; Flavia Tritto disrupts mainstream accounts of history in her poems through disintegration, excess, and ephemerality, transcending materiality and changing states as a slippery narrator, and the interview with Franco “Bifo” Berardi that spans his decades of thinking on exhaustion, desire, desertion, and the erotic. The volume is produced as part of the final exhibition of the 17th edition of the Young Curators Residency Programme, promoted by Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo and coordinated by Michele Bertolino.
12x19 cm
200 pag
first edition
300 copies
I LIVE IN CONSTANT FEAR OF THE WESTERN DESCENT INTO . BUT I DIGRESS. THE CLUB IS BUMPING, THE ALCOHOL IS FLOWING, EVERYBODY LOOKS GOOD. THERE IS MUCH PAIN IN THE WORLD BUT NOT IN THIS ROOM.
VA, Curated by Ariane Sutthavong, Christy Eóin O’Beirne, Katherine Jemima Hamilton
The edition is the second half of a two-fold manifestation: an exhibition focusing on the re-eroticisation of (political) bodies, and this book, which includes texts and visual works regarding the revitalisation of language through poetry. As a collection of poems, essays, and other textual and visual interventions from artists in Italy, the book implements poetic language as a strategy for resisting constant hegemonic appropriation. The structures of capitalism have reduced language to an exchange of information, stripping it of its affective—and therefore political—power and potential. As Franco Berardi writes in Breathing, “poetry is precisely the excess that goes beyond the limits of language, which is to say beyond the limits of the world itself.” The contributions to this publication work in this land of excess, conceiving of language, politics, and love beyond informational circulation and exchange, reinvigorating our social and political imagination. The book is edited by Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo’s YCRP 2023 curators in residence, Ariane Sutthavong, Christy Eóin O’Beirne, and Katherine Jemima Hamilton, and includes contributions by Riccardo Benassi, Sandra Cane, Ilenia Caleo, Giulia Crispiani, Andrea Lo Giudice, Flavia Tritto and an interview with Franco "Bifo" Berardi.
In this room we gather together to listen, to learn again something we already know. A fair world exists, we’ve already been there. If it wasn’t us it was them, they can tell, we can listen. Their words are sweat, spores, cells—contagious, they infect us, or they might, we might desire the same cravings, to chant the same slogans, to speak of justice. To imagine bodies piling over other bodies, after bodies, each image we see full of bodies, bodies everywhere.
Giulia Crispiani
Throughout the book: Riccardo Benassi’s archive of screenshots that make up Daily Desiderio expands the idea of “the event” as a new connection; Sandra Cane embodies the agony of severance spanning cytoplasm, traversing continents, and measuring ‘the distance between us’; Ilenia Caleo writes about the body through the convergence of subjectivities, confusing one point of view for another; a stranger’s or a lover’s for her own; Giulia Crispiani’s undefinable linguistic framework creates an intimacy for lovers who are unknown to each other that is certain one minute and impossible the next; Andrea Lo Giudice appropriates found text, dislodging phrases from their original austere, predictable metre, reshaping them into irregular, syncopated rhythms too erratic for capitalist logic to comprehend; Flavia Tritto disrupts mainstream accounts of history in her poems through disintegration, excess, and ephemerality, transcending materiality and changing states as a slippery narrator, and the interview with Franco “Bifo” Berardi that spans his decades of thinking on exhaustion, desire, desertion, and the erotic. The volume is produced as part of the final exhibition of the 17th edition of the Young Curators Residency Programme, promoted by Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo and coordinated by Michele Bertolino.
12x19 cm
200 pag
first edition
300 copies
