Publications

Faced with the immense archive of data and news that overwhelms us every day, the ancient role of literature seems to pale: no novel can match the complexity of contemporary chronicles, with their live updates, while millions of plots and extraordinary stories are just a click away. In a society of retromaniacs, even the goal of "making memory" seems superfluous. The "Unidentified Narrative Objects" that appear in bookstores today try to be up to this challenge...

“I would like to talk about what happens to music, folklore, the city, modernity, memory. I start from music because all the work I've done in recent years stems from an intuition and a practice of Gianni Bosio who identified in popular music (distinct from popular music) a place of memory of non-hegemonic classes, and as such a source essential for reconstructing a history of the popular world from within.” (Alessandro Portelli)

The strangest images and the most imaginative associations have populated mnemonics since ancient times, producing mysterious verb-visual agglomerations whose interpretation is often a gamble, in the absence of a uniform and shared code.

Can you fix a low memory by playing games? During the XNUMXth century, many took up the challenge. From board games invented by Mark Twain to video installations by contemporary artists, the use of the playful device has characterized several episodes in the path of modern mnemonic techniques, transforming traditional memory systems, made up of images, into three-dimensional immersive devices.

The game can take many forms in daily life, the most unexpected. Disguised under the ambiguous mask of play, joke, irony, they know how to hide tensions, mystifications, insecurities capable of scleroticizing themselves in an apparently playful scheme of forced behavior and fixed and repetitive scripts whose origin has been forgotten.

Discovering a collection of works of art that consciously represent a calendar day, revealing it in the image with visible or implied clues; indicating it in the title as a structural element of the work; playing – sometimes – with real time.