The Map is not the Territory (Montedellarte) is an artist’s book, a video and an installation visualizing the artistic result and process of Montedellarte.
People sometimes confuse the representation of reality with reality itself. The mapping of a territory, therefore, does not constitute the actual territory. Despite our best efforts to control the world around us, we often fail. Perception does not always coincide with reality.
On 1 October 2017, Belgian Artist Griet Dobbels produced the art happening Montedellarte on M Cucco in Biella. A group of hikers drew a physical map in the landscape by walking along a contour line. People from all over the world could watch and participate in the hike via the project website and app.
The artist’s book, takes the form of a layered geographical map. Each layer on the map corresponds to a different aspect of the process behind the project and is an attempt to control the chaos through intensive mapping.
The installation consists of two lightboxes and is conceived as a 3D-presentation of the artist’s book.

Questo libro documenta il progetto di ricerca e residenza Manufatto in Situ fondato da viaindustriae (2007-2017). Inizialmente basato su una specifica ricerca-azione nel paesaggio marginale e radicale dell’area rurale-montana di Cancelli e della Valle del Menotre, Manufatto ha poi utilizzato metodi ipertestuali e progetti extra-situ per disegnare collegamenti tra i diversi siti, i tipi di intervento e i paesaggi “tematici”. Il risultato è un’ampia indagine, una mostra e un libro di arte-architettura-natura sullo spazio pubblico, le pratiche artistiche site-specific, gli interventi e studi sul paesaggio in Italia e confini. Questo progetto di archivio è costituito di 10 sezioni tematiche composte di tracce artistiche, opere e documenti relativi a 10 paesaggi umbri, collegati a loro volta a 10 siti “paralleli” extra-regionali, ambienti ed esperienze storiche radicali dagli anni ’60 fino ad oggi. Ciò introduce una supervisione non ortodossa e critica del paesaggio contemporaneo, tra arte ambientale e architettura, natura e città. Questo catalogo è il tentativo di inglobare il vasto database della mostra, concepita come un sistema integrabile di documentazione orizzontale (documentario/tavolo), inventario verticale (muro), e di “proiezioni”, artefatti provvisionali, forme complesse situate nel paesaggio (utopia/piramidi). I testi pubblicati sono estratti dal materiale generato e raccolto durante il corso dela programma di residenza e della mostra.

La Serpara is a sculpture garden founded by Paul Wiedmer in 1997 in a picturesque valley in the municipal territory of Civitella d’Agliano, right on the border between Lazio and Umbria. After twenty years of activity, in which the garden has invited about thirty artists from all over the world to make sculptures, this book celebrates the bond between art and nature, ten years after the catalog published by Kehrer Verlag. The Serpara is a collective project. Around every opening, dozens of people from all over Europe gather at each party.

“La carta sonora degli Orti di San Pietro” was produced during UmbriaLibri 2015 and 2016, during the ninth and tenth edition of Manufatto in Situ, art and landscape workshop curated by Viaindustriae applied in the Medieval Garden and in the and Didactic-Social Garden of San Pietro, in collaboration with Fonoteca Regionale Trotta, the University Center for the Scientific Museums – University of Perugia and with the Department of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Sciences. The workshop hosted 18 young visual and sound artists and 5 visiting artists, from different backgrounds, who recorded and mapped, documented and reinvented the places of the three gardens and their social relations. The outcome was a site-specific live set, “Campestre, mimetica“. From this experience, viaindustriae published the first “Quaderno di Campo” together with an audio CD, as a prototype of an editorial series in collaboration with the Fonoteca Trotta. This mapping configures and proposes a more systematic regional intervention starting from the Carta Sonora model to outline geography of interesting “acoustic places” in terms of soundscape/soundscape/listening. On the cover of the editorial research, Eugenio Faina, founder of the Istituto Superiore Agrario di San Pietro, created from the beginning (1894) as a space for pedagogical “experimentation”.

Kiwi is a book-workshop activated by 2 cultural associations (A di Città and Viaindustriae) that have met the needs of a territory. It is a city guide, a social tale of Rosarno, a small town in southern Italy, in Calabria. Kiwi is a book-community activated through an editorial workshop held in Rosarno from 3 to 9 October 2014 and then prolonged for two years of participatory editorial activity. Sharing the process with the inhabitants of Rosarno led to a natural exchange between the authors, editors and the everyday life, the daily events of the city and its inhabitants.

The body of the research is composed of a large photographic apparatus, witness of change and, above all, an effective tool for understanding the signs left by the recent history of the Umbrian territory, still little appreciated. In this sense, the project develops within contemporary cultural (globalized and multiethnic) offering a contribution to the interpretation of the territory whose unstable current configuration, in addition to a clear spatial value, is concretely the result of an intense stratification that took place over time.

RADIOazioni U is a metaphorical trip across Umbria, an alternative guide to explore its places, a suggestion to make stopovers to discover the submerged, the underground, the unknown. This publication is connected to a series of workshops and creative activities for young people who have progressively taken part in the realization of an artistic parade through the streets of Umbria…