DISPLAY  |  TOMORROW I COULD SAY SOMETHING ELSE by NATHALIE DU PASQUIER

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Nathalie Du Pasquier defines herself a self-taught designer and artist. Started her career in 1979, she was a founder of the Memphis' Group in Milan [1981], together among others with: Ettore Sottsass, George Sowden, Alessandro Mendini, Andrea Branzi. In 1987, at the end of this collective experience, she decided to devote herself exclusively to the art of painting. Thanks to her natural predisposition to the spatial composition, Nathalie started a personal research in which everyday objects are transformed into architectural volumes, shaped by the color and their own personality, creating choreographies of tools that speak through the gradations of shadows and the mutual relationship on the canvas or, deformed, as a sculpture. In recent years Du Pasquier has taken part in numerous self-publishing projects, such as the limited edition of 50 notebooks and publishing collaborations, like the ones with Nieves Zurich and Corraini Edizioni Mantova. Her most recent titles include Don’t Take These Drawings Seriously, curated by Omar Sosa powerhouse books, New York, 2015, Milanese Fotokino, Marsiglia, 2015 and A—Z an english/italian spelling book in which every letter is linked to a concept, an idea of language and meaning Automatic Books, Venezia, 2015. The exhibition presents recent and archival works on paper, together with a special selection of editorial projects  |  ⤷  opening 27 NOV  6–10pm  |  28/29 NOV  2–7pm  |  Agalma

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DISPLAY  |  BLADE—BANNER by COSTANZA CANDELORO, LIA CECCHIN, NATHALIE DU PASQUIER, ALEK O.,

ELENA RADICE, CHIARA TERRANEO

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Through B—B artists are invited to produce an image all-over printed in a 1x1m silk fabric, as a symbolic 'pixel' cut from their world. This series of modules is a collection produced by _\|/_ and showed during the salon, fed every year by new collaborations, with the idea of building the content for a future itinerant exhibition that can present a view of the most vibrant italian art scene. The banners exist in two copies, one given to the author while the other is kept in the collection  |  ⤷  28/29 NOV  2–7pm  |  EVASTOMPERstudio

 

 

DISPLAY  |  TWO KINDLING STICKS by GOOD PRESS Glasgow 

and further, a gathered labour of quasi-fictive production feat. Gordon Douglas, Oscar Gaynor, Connie Butler, Quintessa Matranga, Fritz Welch, Samuel Hasler and Gil Gentile

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Locating a substance; acquainting the rough with the smooth in the midst of a precarious foundation [see: quasi-fictive production]. FFO the potentiality of how language, aesthetic representations and artefacts sprawled across surfaces might observe themselves cross-pollinating and become tied together and/or intentionally locate their bodies in a precise moment to expand and assemble yet unknown rationales. See also: the graphic novel; experimental literature; assemblage; broadcasting; performance; craft; circulars; piracy. Small sticks or twigs used for lighting fires. In the forest there is no shortage of kindling, sticks, short logs or anything else needed to kindle a vigorous campfire and keep it burning effortlessly. [In neurology] a process by which a seizure or other brain event is both initiated and its recurrence made more likely. These studies comprise two general lines of inquiry that include studies of the phenomena of long-term potentiation and kindling  |  ⤷  28/29 NOV  2–7pm  |  Pijama

 

 

DISPLAY/TALK  |  WALDEN: DESERT AND OASIS, WOOD AND CABIN, ILLEGAL BOOK AND CRYPTO-UTOPIA

by PARASITE 2.0

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The project focuses on the relationship between the mythical and the ascetic idea of desert, places for physical and mental isolation with the drafting of anonymous and subversive texts. Personal isolation, primeval state, original construction of the shelter in physical and mental deserts, “shamanic” outputs, ready to break into the collective life, to destabilize and awaken. In these acts lie the crash between two of the most extreme tendencies of the human, the inner isolation and the full openness at the community and the world. Working on a participation that will act on multiple levels - an hybrid narrative show, an installation on sprint threshold and a lecture - the project refers to these practices and to the physicality of places in relation with them. Desert islands in which you can imagine, experience and develop new forms of social and collective life. P 2.0  |  ⤷  28/29 NOV  2–7pm  |  Aladino  |  Talk 29 NOV  2–3pm  |  O’~SoundOhm

 

 

DISPLAY  |  BOOKSONLINE.FR Paris

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We invited Pierre Hourquet, creator of the booksonline.fr  platform, to produce a series of six postcards to celebrate the online project completed in 2013 and existing now for consultation only, as an exceptional glipse into photographic research. The books online project, according to its creator, is a free-access library using the same codes that make the printed book familiar and made with the medium of the Internet in mind. The site specializes in photography books and retains much of what makes this genre special in its printed form: the intimacy, the intended juxtapositions and the suspense of flipping. Through a click-turn effect, consciously virtual, simplified design and great photography, this site presents a new future for the book.' extract from the article by Sara Cwynar - New Books for the Old Internet, nytimes.com 2012  |  ⤷  27/29 NOV  |  www

 

 

PERFORMANCE  |  MONTEZ PRESS PRESENTS IT'S JULY INTERJECTION: LOVELY LITTLE HOSTAGE 

by A. M. BANG AND LINETYPE Berlin

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Lovely Little Hostage is an infatuation that lingers on despite separation anxiety and time travel. A. M. Bang  as writer-orchestrator, laying down the structure. LINETYPE as carto-grapher, mapping with video and sonic landscapes. They cruise Japan. The result is a tangle of words floating through train stations, volcanic sunsets, love hotels, tea ceremonies. All made available in your very own private Karaoke Box. The narrative illuminates paradoxes and pleasures of unchartered territories in time, geography, and relationships. Love in Colors — montezpress.com   |  ⤷  28/29 NOV  2–7pm  |  EVASTOMPERstudio

 

 

FOCUS  |  LOOKING FOR BOOKS RELATING TO UTOPIAN FUTURE by ASAP RESEARCH LIBRARY

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ASAP Research Library is an archive that embodies the possible future visions, seeking to provide the necessary tools to deepen the predictability of scenarios to come and the documentation useful to regulate the construction of a participatory possible and humanly desirable tomorrow. The library accepts recommendations and donations from public or private realities, in order to develop the bibliographic heritage in a perspective of consistency and continuity. During _\|/_ it was possible to donate or to suggest titles to the ASAP desk. To help make it grow, if you have books to share or titles to point out, just visit the web site  |  ⤷  28/29 NOV  1–8pm  |  O’

 

 

FOCUS  |  PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTFOLIO READING by YET MAGAZINE IN COLLABORATION with MICAMERA

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YET, online and printed quarterly magazine dedicated to contemporary photography, will offer to five selected authors [chosen by a shortlist of ten candidates identified by Micamera*, a portfolio reading in the context of _\|/_ salon, at Micamera venue. Photography is the main subject of the editorial project and its aim is to look for different approaches without genre, medium or theme restrictions  |  ⤷  28 NOV  4–7pm  |  Micamera - for selected only

 

 

SCREENING

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⨳ SILENT READINGS by Andy Simionato and Karen Ann Donnachie color, audio, '18

⨳ NATHALIE DU PASQUIER - LE MODELE ET SON OMBRE by Judith Du Pasquier color, audio, '17

⨳ SCHLECKER by Rafa Castells, book edited by Terranova color, audio, '3, video courtesy haveanicebook.com,  terrranova.com,  rcastells.tumblr.com 

⤷  28/29 NOV  1–8pm  |  O’

 

 

TALK  |  A QUEER CULTURE ILLUSTRATED MEET HANDKERCHIEF

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One in search for two or two in search for one, but also I like muscles: how with a color and a couple of lines you can build worlds and dismantle prejudices. Spontaneity and experience of two young Italian publishing realities compared between paper types and kinds of karma   |  ⤷  28 NOV  2–3pm  |  O’~SoundOhm

 

 

TALK  |  LIA CECCHIN ON ASAP RESEARCH LIBRARY with THE PHILOSOPHER ROBERTO POLI

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Introduction to the study of possible futures, management tools and future vision with which you can set up flexible strategies to deal with the contemporary reality. Lia Cecchin is a visual artist based in Turin. Roberto Poli teaches at the Department of Sociology and Social Research of the University of Trento and directs the master in social forecasting; he got the first UNESCO Chair on anticipatory systems, he deals with the future — asap-researchlibrary.org  |  ⤷  28 NOV  4–5pm  |  O’~SoundOhm

 

 

TALK  |  GOOD PRESS Glasgow

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Matthew and Nick will present their particular way of promoting and producing editions in collaboration with artists. Since 2011, along with publishing projects Good Press is a space for residences, exhibitions and activities with the public — goodpressgallery.co.uk  |  ⤷  28 NOV  6–7pm  |  O’~SoundOhm

 

 

TALK  |  ALICE CANNAVA, STEPHANO STEPHANOWIC and ONGA / BORING MACHINES 

ON THE NEW OCCULTO MAGAZINE ISSUE δ: DREAMS Berlin

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The fifth release of Occulto Magazine, Issue δ [4,66920160910299067185320382…] is dedicated to a very special topic: dreams. Expect fictional dinosaurs, 8 billion dollars supercolliders, oxygen and cigarettes coming from the very same source, Bette Davis’ eyes, hacked conversations with angels and illusions in motion. Expect no Viennese doctors and no neuroscience breaking news. Not that we’re not interested in such things; they just didn’t come to mind. I had an absurd dream: I had a degree in the visual arts, yet I had ended up working as webdesigner and developer, and in the meanwhile I had started a bizarre self-produced science magazine that featured texts and projects by researchers, historians and artists. I was often talking a weird language that included words such as 'Rechtsschutzversiche-rungsgesellschaften' and I was going back to university at the age of 35. It was fun, but it all turned into a nightmare when I checked my bank statement. Anyway, despite some hassle and delay, I managed to print the fifht issue of the mag: If I remember correctly, it was about fictional and real animals of the past, present and future; an amatorial astronomic observatory based on Hollywood classic movies; universal languages sold on Amazon for few hundreds Euros; and much more. AC - The issue included Occulto Compilation #4 compiled by Onga / Boring Machines in limited CD edition or digital download  |  ⤷  29 NOV  4–5pm  |  O’~SoundOhm

 

 

TALK  |  ARCHIVE BOOKS Berlin ON CHRIS MARKER

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Archive Books will introduce some publications made by the french filmmaker Chris Marker [1921–2012], who published through Éditions du Seuil, two volumes entitled Commentaires, between 1961 and 1967. Marker himself, who had collaborated as both an author and editor with the publishers – for whom he had conceived and curated, amongst others, the illustrated volumes of Petite Planète series [1954–1964] – designed the two publications that contain the ‘commentaries’ or scripts of his first films. As a cineast and bibliophile, Marker’s interest in the relationship between images and text underscored both the film-essay and the book ersatz cinema  |  ⤷  29 NOV  6–7pm  |  O’~SoundOhm

 

 

RISOGRAPH WORKSHOP |  THE RISO CLUB 15

 with PIERRICK BREGEON and CLEMENT ROUZAUD EUROSTANDARD - CH

ASSISTED BY ARTIST ELENA RADICE AND ATTO

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Risograph is an eco-friendly printing system that approaches the color response of screen printing with ease of reproduction photocopy. It is a technique that lets you print small editions in a cheap and professional way, enhancing the quality of colors drafting and screen intensity applicable to the images. Pierrick Brégeon and Clément Rouzaud are art directors who have worked with reality as the ECAL, the Swiss National Film Archive Lausanne and the Visuelle Gestaltung Büro Bonbon Zurich, passionate Riso experimenters for several publishing projects, they will share technical expertise and aesthetic approaches in order to deal with this type of printing, foreseeing the results and enhancing the uncertainty degrees. The course will be attended by Elena Radice, artist, with ATTO coordination, design and communication studio which dedicates its work to print small and specific projects by using Risograph method. The workshop call is open to artists, photographers, illustrators and visual designers, who want to learn or improve this type of printing. With the support of Istituto Svizzero  |  ⤷  28/29 NOV  |  by application only through Open-Call  |  ATTO

 

 

FUNDRAISING PARTY  |  DJ SET BY ALIENI TOMBOYS DON'T CRY + ISAMIT MORALES + GIORGIO DI SALVO

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⤷  28 NOV  11pm–03am  |  Bar Vintage — free entry

 

 

POSTER/CATALOGUE  |  PIA HOWELL

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Woman drawing, poster 56 x 84 cm, paper gr.250, edition of 600, free to the public. Pia Howel is an American artist who lives and works in New York. She studied at Columbia University and Rhode Island School of Design. Recent solo exhibitions include Paloma at Farewell Books Austin, Zen Whatever at Bodega NY, Hollywood Rd. at Picture Room NY and Homosapiens 2 at Queer Thoughts NY. Through drawing, Pia creates vibrant surfaces, as a territory whose traces are unpredictable and alien, to explore with the gaze  |  ⤷  27-28-29 NOV  1–9pm  |  O' non-profit association