Hill of Desires. Practices of Rural Imagination
€ 25
Edited by Matteo Binci, Pietro Consolandi, Giacomo Pigliapoco, Bianca Schröder
Texts by Elvira Vannini, Panos Giannikopoulos, Simone Ciglia, Emanuele Braga, Myvillages (Kathrin Böhm, Wapke Feenstra), Robida Collective (Vida Rucli, Aljaž Škrlep), Paisanaje, Ronald Kolb, Marcelo Expósito
Artist's covers by Jumana Manna, Maria Thereza Alves e Bianca Schröder
Research assistant: Amina Berdin
Producer: Anna Mostardi
Copy editing: Giulia Angeloni
Communication manager: Nicoletta Graziano
Supported by the Italian Council program (2024) Direzione Generale Creatività Contemporanea del Ministero della Cultura
264 pp.
14,5 X 24 cm
eng/ita
2025
ISBN 979-12-81790-40-7
Hill of Desires is a collective publishing device that engages with contemporary art as a situated practice rooted in European peripheral and inland territories. It is a radical exercise in imag ination that embraces rurality as a space of counter-narration, one capable of generating political ecologies, affective infrastructures and non-institutional forms of knowledge, offering a critical contribution to the redefinition of cultural geographies and curatorial paradigms beyond the logic of the event. The project is split into five sections: a visual atlas featuring key works created in Italy from 1960 to the present; three specially commissioned artist-designed dust jackets; nine essays written for the publication; a collective bibliography and photographic documentation of the multi-year Traffic Festival.