Soda Kazuhiro
Why I Make Documentaries. On Observational Filmmaking
€ 20
“What is a documentary?” “Why do I make documentaries?”. Soda Kazuhiro – one of the most prominent Japanese filmmakers, who has based his documentarist career on a radically independent filmmaking method, – writes this reflexive diary on his own work pursuing to find answers to these and to other crucial questions that arose along his long path of research. This first curated English version of his most enlightening and complete text has been enriched with a brand new iconographic apparatus from Soda Kazuhiro’s movies and a new updated introduction by the author himself.
Aa.Vv.
I am Gonzo. My Dirty Italian Zines Fuck Serious Scientific Books
€ 25
Aa.Vv.
I am Gonzo. My Dirty Italian Zines Fuck Serious Scientific Books
€ 25
This revised edition of I Am Gonzo includes three new erotic stories and supplementary matter tobring it up to date as a new issue of the series. A porn addict amateur who collects dirty Italian comics inan “animalistic” way, Gonzo applies a conservative technique whereby he hides these questionablyviewable images within scientific libraries. This book addresses a widespread form of collecting thatavoids the subject of the “arty” comic strip and instead dives headlong into obscene material and theviewer’s experience of it. This mega-collection of pornographic Italian comics faithfully presents the genrefrom its sensual, sexual-phobic beginnings (1960-1970) to its porno-violent shift, between the years 1985and 2000. Voyeuristic and chock-full of thematic variants, from transgenderism and homoeroticism to fairytale, zombie, and cyber porn.
Virginia di Lazzaro, giulia filippi
Bolletti/no 12
€ 10
Virginia di Lazzaro, giulia filippi
Bolletti/no 12
€ 10
The theme of the twelfth issue of Bolletti/no is… TIDE! Aldo can’t find the stone he was playing with…. The tide covered it up! This issue of Bolletti/no takes us on a discovery of what the water hides and shows when the sea level increases and decreases… Let’s create a small flip book together to observe this fascinating fenomenon.
Bolletti/no is an experimental didactic magazine published at each solstice and equinox for the duration of 3 years. It responds to the desire to give a physical and printed form to a series of practices experimented in the time of laboratory work shared with children and adults by Virginia Di Lazzaro and Giulia Filippi. Each issue of Bolletti/no is an invitation, a lense to read, and a tool for experimentation, creation, collection, and sharing. It is a journey into a world of small and big things, and things that are close to us and we see everyday. Each issue collects suggestions, narrations of experiences, prompts and leaves space for your own experiments. In addition to the 12 issues, there are going to be special issues and a conclusive “Annual Collection” will be the container for all the magazines.
Virginia Di Lazzaro, Giulia Filippi
Bolletti/no.10
€ 10
Virginia Di Lazzaro, Giulia Filippi
Bolletti/no.10
€ 10
The theme of the tenth issue of Bolletti/no is EGG. It invites readers to… hatch. The blackbird is crouched on its newly laid egg and waits. Life will come and spring will come. Have you ever seen blackbird eggs? And those of the herring gull? Find those and other eggs in this issue of Bolletti/no.
Bollettino is an experimental didactic magazine published at each solstice and equinox for the duration of 3 years. It responds to the desire to give a physical and printed form to a series of practices experimented in the time of laboratory work shared with children and adults by Virginia Di Lazzaro and Giulia Filippi. Each issue of BOLLETTINO is an invitation, a lense to read, and a tool for experimentation, creation, collection, and sharing. It is a journey into a world of small and big things, and things that are close to us and we see everyday. Each issue collects suggestions, narrations of experiences, prompts and leaves space for your own experiments. In addition to the 12 issues, there are going to be special issues and a conclusive “Annual Collection” will be the container for all the magazines.
Giovanni Chiamenti
Interspecies Kin
€ 18
Giovanni Chiamenti
Interspecies Kin
€ 18
Interspecies Kin is the first publication enclosing the research that Giovanni Chiamenti has carried out over the past two years. The project was developed between the United States, specifically in New York during his residency at the NARS Foundation and a subsequent collaboration with the community biolab Genspace, and Italy, thanks to the collaboration with Spazio Volta and the support of his cultural partners Attiva Cultural Projects and The Blank Contemporary Art. Chiamenti’s practice lies somewhere between scientific popularization and his intent to be formally speculative, bordering on the sci-fi. The artist has created an organic glossary, originated from interspecies relationships, in which creatures demonstrate their adaptability to an increasingly polluted environment and the hybrid becomes the protagonist of rhizomatic relationships capable of interconnecting extremely distant worlds. The texts within the publication address the issue of micro-plastic pollution plaguing the oceans and its subsequent integration within the evolutionary process of organisms and bacteria inhabiting the deep sea. The topic is addressed not only by curators and critics but also by a marine microbiologist and a biomedical engineer. This is a transdisciplinary project in which the imaginative power of the forms generated by the artist is not intended to obscure the scientific component, but instead to bring the reader closer to the studies conducted in recent years in evolutionism.
Massimo Ricciardo
Encounters in an Archive. Objects of Migration / Photo-object of Art History
€ 25
Massimo Ricciardo
Encounters in an Archive. Objects of Migration / Photo-object of Art History
€ 25
Global migration is one of the most pressing matters facing contemporaneity, but also a leitmotif in the work of Massimo Ricciardo. In his most recent project, the artist creates a dialogue between photographic objects from the Photothek of the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz and objects of migration: things that are functional to the journey, such as passports and nautical charts, but also to identity and memory, such as family photographs, diaries, a sample of earth from the homeland. The installation generated compelling questions about these ‘talking’ objects: who do they belong to? Are they part of our cultural heritage? What are the appropriate artistic and curatorial practices if one decides to collect, archive, exhibit, transform them? The dialogues prompted by Ricciardo’s installation continue in this book and involve a polyphony of voices.
Virginia Di Lazzaro, Giulia Filippi
Bolletti/no.9
€ 15
Virginia Di Lazzaro, Giulia Filippi
Bolletti/no.9
€ 15
The theme of the seventh issue of Bolletti/no is MANTO (blanket). It invites readers to… bundle up, to stay warm under the blankets and to create your own snowy landscape. Open it up and flip through the pages to find out how. The ninth issue of Bolletti/no, the last of 2022, contains an artist’s poster by School of Nonfunctional Studies. This is the second of three artist’s posters specifically designed for Bolletti/no to say goodbye to the past year and all its seasons. The other poster will be attached to the last issue of 2023.
Bollettino is an experimental didactic magazine published at each solstice and equinox for the duration of 3 years. It responds to the desire to give a physical and printed form to a series of practices experimented in the time of laboratory work shared with children and adults by Virginia Di Lazzaro and Giulia Filippi. Each issue of BOLLETTINO is an invitation, a lense to read, and a tool for experimentation, creation, collection, and sharing. It is a journey into a world of small and big things, and things that are close to us and we see everyday. Each issue collects suggestions, narrations of experiences, prompts and leaves space for your own experiments. In addition to the 12 issues, there are going to be special issues and a conclusive “Annual Collection” will be the container for all the magazines.
Virginia Di Lazzaro, Giulia Filippi
Bolletti/no.8
€ 10
Virginia Di Lazzaro, Giulia Filippi
Bolletti/no.8
€ 10
The theme of the seventh issue of Bolletti/no is MINESTRONE. It invites readers to… cut your veggies and make soup. With the eighth issue of Bolletti/no, you are all invited to make your own soup. Open it up and flip through it to find out how.
Bollettino is an experimental didactic magazine published at each solstice and equinox for the duration of 3 years. It responds to the desire to give a physical and printed form to a series of practices experimented in the time of laboratory work shared with children and adults by Virginia Di Lazzaro and Giulia Filippi. Each issue of BOLLETTINO is an invitation, a lense to read, and a tool for experimentation, creation, collection, and sharing. It is a journey into a world of small and big things, and things that are close to us and we see everyday. Each issue collects suggestions, narrations of experiences, prompts and leaves space for your own experiments. In addition to the 12 issues, there are going to be special issues and a conclusive “Annual Collection” will be the container for all the magazines.
Virginia di Lazzaro, Giulia Filippi
Bolletti/no. 7
€ 10
Virginia di Lazzaro, Giulia Filippi
Bolletti/no. 7
€ 10
The theme of the seventh issue of Bolletti/no is SIDEREAL. It invites readers to… desire. The summer night sky is populated with stars that invite us to desire. We follow the trail of shooting stars and entrust our thoughts to them. With the seventh issue of Bolletti/no, you are all invited to make your own sky. Open it up and flip through it to find out how.
Bollettino is an experimental didactic magazine published at each solstice and equinox for the duration of 3 years. It responds to the desire to give a physical and printed form to a series of practices experimented in the time of laboratory work shared with children and adults by Virginia Di Lazzaro and Giulia Filippi. Each issue of BOLLETTINO is an invitation, a lense to read, and a tool for experimentation, creation, collection, and sharing. It is a journey into a world of small and big things, and things that are close to us and we see everyday. Each issue collects suggestions, narrations of experiences, prompts and leaves space for your own experiments. In addition to the 12 issues, there are going to be special issues and a conclusive “Annual Collection” will be the container for all the magazines.
Caterina Borelli
Memoria necessaria. Guida critica a dodici luoghi della Roma coloniale
€ 12
Caterina Borelli
Memoria necessaria. Guida critica a dodici luoghi della Roma coloniale
€ 12
Un percorso critico per la città di Roma alla ricerca delle tracce dell’impresa coloniale italiana. Accompagnati dalla riscrittura in chiave contemporanea di dodici eventi memorializzati da monumenti, arredi urbani, ponti e toponomastica, a cui fanno eco dodici voci e radici multiculturali, seguiamo un percorso che ci invita a confrontare e affrontare questa parte rimossa della nostra storia. Il viaggio si conclude nell’ex museo coloniale, in una visita attraverso alcuni oggetti della collezione, anche loro in attesa della nostra riscrittura partecipe.
VV. AA.
Lost Zone. Hiking the Dawn of Metaverse
€ 20
VV. AA.
Lost Zone. Hiking the Dawn of Metaverse
€ 20
For a decade, from the mid-1990s, Active Worlds was the most popular user-created virtual environment on the internet. It was an online zone full of precedent and potential; a worldbuilding exercise and infrastructure holding the promise of a self-electing global citizenry amidst virtual constructions of their own imagination and creation. Coming from a background in architecture, editors Andrea Belosi and Joana Rafael have led an expedition through the remains of Active World’s principal territory, AlphaWorld. Infused with principles of psychogeography and urbanism, and sprinkled with the dream logic that seasons virtual realities, four avatars were enlisted to walk in relay the 655 digital kilometres that separate AlphaWorld’s northern and southern limits. Alongside an atlas of AW’s 495 public and private worlds, and details of the online platform’s social and technical construction, rules and labor, Lost Zone draws a line through the ruins of our recent digital past, to gain insights into our hybrid present.
Virginia Di Lazzaro, Giulia Filippi
Bolletti/no.6
€ 10
Virginia Di Lazzaro, Giulia Filippi
Bolletti/no.6
€ 10
The theme of the fifth issue of Bolletti/no is DUST. It invites readers to… dust. Everyone contributes to the Spring cleaning: everyone collects dust which is transform into color to play and draw.
Bollettino is an experimental didactic magazine published at each solstice and equinox for the duration of 3 years. It responds to the desire to give a physical and printed form to a series of practices experimented in the time of laboratory work shared with children and adults by Virginia Di Lazzaro and Giulia Filippi. Each issue of BOLLETTINO is an invitation, a lense to read, and a tool for experimentation, creation, collection, and sharing. It is a journey into a world of small and big things, and things that are close to us and we see everyday. Each issue collects suggestions, narrations of experiences, prompts and leaves space for your own experiments. In addition to the 12 issues, there are going to be special issues and a conclusive “Annual Collection” will be the container for all the magazines.
VV.AA.
Present Archives
€ 30
VV.AA.
Present Archives
€ 30
What use can we make today of a prints collection dating between the 16th and 19th century housed in a library storage room? What does it tell us of the periods in which it was created, preserved and reorganised? How can this information relate to the contemporary? Can an artist re-enact shared scenarios emphasising what of the old persists in the present? This publication collects three years’ work within present_continuous, project aimed at enhancing a collection of prints housed at the Biblioteca Nazionale Universitaria in Turin. A still rather unexplored point of excellence in the institution’s holdings, which was organised in albums in the 1860s by the eclectic Piedmontese collector and connoisseur Giovanni Volpato. The project includes a cataloguing campaign, a symposium whose purpose was to renew the contemporary perception of the archive and in an international call was opened in order to select two artists – Alessandra Messali and Ryts Monet (Enrico De Napoli) – for a residency program dedicated to creating new perspectives, right from the collection of print, trying to voicing the social and cultural issues of our time.