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SPRINT EXTENSION PROGRAM
NOV ←→ DEC
7 NOV
10.30 AM – 5.30 PM
→ WORKSHOP | NUOVA BOZZA VOL.2
Experimental Onomaturgy Lab | Curated by Noura Tafeche | Free upon registration
– For second generations who don't like being defined as such. Which words describe our experience as children of migration and diaspora? Social media, institutional debate and media narratives keep imposing labels that shape our personal and social positions: this lab asks which of them we actually feel comfortable with, and invites us to reclaim language collectively.
– Onomaturgy is the art of inventing new words, an artistic and political tool. The lab lays the groundwork for a shared reflection and puts into practice participatory methods for coining new terms. The neologisms will be collected in a printed publication curated by Galattica and sent to the Accademia della Crusca. The workshop is supported by OtherNetwork Foundation.
– NOURA TAFECHE is a visual artist, onomatologist and independent researcher. Her practice, spanning installations, videos, neologisms and miniature drawings, explores online microcultures, speculative imaginaries and the intersections between media, language and visual culture.
8 NOV
10 AM – 6 PM
→ WORKSHOP | DUEMILAQUATTRO
Time-trip and Storytelling workshop | Curated by Altalena | Free upon registration
– A little trip through time. It starts from a promotional map of Milan from 2004, found in a neighbourhood market, listing bars, clubs, gyms and tanning salons: some still exist, many don't.
– In the morning we walk through an area of the city to see what is left of 2004, what has changed and what has stayed identical, in reality or in our imagination. In the afternoon, at GALATTICA, we browse excerpts of Milan local newspapers from the early 2000s. The two activities are the starting point for a collective narrative.
– ALTALENA is a transdisciplinary research group active in contemporary art and culture since 2017.
13 NOV
6.30 PM
→ TALK | GEONTOLOGIE
REQUIEM FOR LATE LIBERALISM
Marco Liberatore (ippolita) in conversation with Natália Trejbalová | Curated by Timeo | Free Entry
– “Capitalism is an enormous foundry, throwing the living and the dead into its furnace,” writes Elizabeth Povinelli in Geontologies, by now a classic of contemporary decolonial thought. The image captures the logic of a system that, through extraction, progressively turns the living and the non-living into available matter. Whereas extractivism once deprived only the world's “periphery” of its resources, we are now all sacrificable resources for an energy-hungry delirium that no longer knows reasons or borders. In this scenario, Geontologies becomes a fundamental tool for understanding the transformations of a ruthless colonialism: one that no longer stops at the map but has managed to sink into the bowels of the earth, extending to the very matter of the world and to the conditions that make life possible.
– ELIZABETH A. POVINELLI teaches Anthropology and Gender Studies at Columbia University. Co-founder of the Karrabing Film Collective. Author of Economies of Abandonment.
– IPPOLITA is an independent research group on the critical theory of automation and technopolitics. Workshops on digital self-defence.
– NATÁLIA TREJBALOVÁ is a visual artist from Košice based in Milan, working across film, sculpture and drawing. Starting from science and speculative fiction, she explores world-building as a political tool to rethink the more-than-human ecosystem.
– TIMEO – Like Plato's dialogue, Timeo sees thought as listening and dialogue. It explores what is thinkable to offer a cartography of this extreme present and the tools to repair it.
14 NOV
A. group 10 AM – 1 PM
B. group 2 – 5 PM
📍 LUCIE PAGE STUDIO
Via Arquà 14
→ LAB VISIT | PAPER RESTORATION & CONSERVATION
Open Lab curated by Lucie Page | Upon registration + 10€
– A visit to explore the world of paper restoration and conservation, guided by Lucie Page.
Participants discover techniques, tools, materials and the cultural stories that accompany the life of paper over time, through case studies, anecdotes and insights into a differently ‘esoteric’ practice.
– LUCIE PAGE is a paper conservator trained at La Cambre in Brussels, based in Milan since 2020. She collaborates with institutions such as the Victoria and Albert Museum and the National Portrait Gallery in London.
15 NOV
2 – 5 PM
📍 GALATTICA
Via Arquà 14
→ WORKSHOP | JAPANESE BOOKBINDING
Curated by Sara Coccoli – Read or Die | Upon registration + 30€
– We explore and make four types of Japanese book (accordion book, flutter book, account book, five-hole binding) to understand how bookbinding evolved in East Asia and how it differs from the Western tradition. You will fold, sew and assemble pages with needle, thread, coloured paper and more to create unique books.
Suitable for first-timers as well as enthusiasts who want to refine their technique. Tools and materials are provided.
– Sara Coccoli is the founder of Read or Die, she works in the restoration of paper and photographic heritage. Her latest project was at the Istituto Centrale per la Grafica in Rome.
– READ OR DIE is an open Rome-based crew exploring the book as an interdisciplinary bridge, through bookbinding workshops, book swaps and live sketching.
15 NOV
6 PM
📍 GALATTICA
Via Arquà 14
→ TALK | PAPERMASTER
Curated by Sara Coccoli – Read or Die | Free Entry
How did paper travel from China to the rest of the world? From the plant fibers described by Marco Polo in Il Milione, to the secrets guarded by the Chinese emperors, to its spread in Korea and Japan: stories, images and artifacts to look at and touch, retracing the most fascinating phases in the history of the book and of paper.
Read or Die is an open Rome-based crew that explores the book in all its nuances, as an interdisciplinary bridge between the many voices of our time, through bookbinding and papermaking workshops, used-book swaps, and live sketching and drawing sessions.
Sara Coccoli, the project’s founder, works in the restoration of paper and photographic materials and has spent years in the conservation of books and works of art on paper, most recently at the Istituto Centrale per la Grafica (ICG).
– Sara Coccoli is the founder of Read or Die, she works in the restoration of paper and photographic heritage. Her latest project was at the Istituto Centrale per la Grafica in Rome.
20 NOV
6.30 PM
📍 GALATTICA
Via Arquà 14
→ LAUNCH | EXTRABEAT
Curated by Grafica Bambaataa & Camilla Candida Donzella | Free Entry
– Typographic research that starts from a reworking of the “Old English” typeface in its “soft-gothic” version, popular in New York’s hip-hop community in the late 1970s, especially within the b-boying scene. Camilla Candida Donzella draws her own “visceral and instinctive” version of it, in dialogue with Grafica Bambaataa.
During the launch, you will be able to customize with your name/message a t-shirt with heat-pressed flocked lettering on cotton and download the font designed by Camy for free.
– Grafica Bambaataa is a project dedicated to graphic/archival outreach and bootleg culture.
– Camilla Candida Donzella is an outsider photographer and designer, radically self-taught, working across analog documentary photography, handcrafted screen printing, independent publishing and tattooing. In 1999 she created the independent project Shameless, focused on screen-printed self-productions and small-scale publishing. In 2009 she opened 4X4 in Milan, a container for zines, and in 2012 SHAME was born: a street-level shop in the Isola neighborhood that hosted a succession of concerts, presentations and collaborations.
21 NOV
A. group 10 AM – 12 PM
B. group 2 – 4 PM
📍 CALCOGRAFIA PETRONILLA
Via Venosa 2
→ LAB VISIT | INCISIONE E STAMPA CALCOGRAFICA
Open Lab on engraving and intaglio printing | Upon registration + 10€
– A visit to a print studio with intaglio printing demonstrations: participants discover techniques, tools and materials, look at the plates and are introduced to the different stages of the process.
– CALCOGRAFIA PETRONILLA is a Milan print studio dedicated to contemporary engraving and graphic art, keeping the language of intaglio printing alive through research, editions and teaching.
21–22 NOV
10.30 AM – 6 PM
📍 GALATTICA
Via Arquà 14
→ WORKSHOP | THE RISO CLUB
Curated by SoyBot | Selection based on Portfolio + 40€
– Risograph is an eco-friendly printing method where the chromatic attitude of screen printing meets the fast reproduction times of photocopying and the softness of inkjet prints. A professional solution for photos, drawings, collage and text.
– The two days are led by the duo SoyBot, who will develop a small collective editorial project to approach the technique, understand it better and start managing it, from design to printing. The workshop ends with a box-making session: each participant builds by hand the box that will hold their zine, using a special 90-degree stapler provided by the Korean brand Cornervery. The results will be gathered in a non-linear catalogue for the XERRORX thematic exhibition, taking place during SPRINT26.
– The open call is for artists, photographers, illustrators and visual designers who love editorial experimentation and want a first approach to Risograph or to deepen their knowledge.
– SOYBOT is a Vienna-based duo of artists working across illustration, graphics and hardware. They run a micro-publishing house and a riso printing studio.
1–15 DEC
MON–FRI 11 AM – 5 PM
SAT & PUBLIC HOLIDAYS 2PM–6PM
SUN CLOSED
📍 Ten Thousand Feet, Via Filippino Lippi 10
→ EXHIB | THE MOST BEAUTIFUL SWISS BOOKS
– Every year, the prize celebrates the work of some of the most talented book designers and their exceptional productions in publishing and art, focusing on high quality works that reflect the contemporary. The traveling exhibition is organized annually in Switzerland and abroad as a promotional measure to share and consolidate skills related to book design.
– What is a Swiss book? A product is considered a Swiss book if it meets at least one of the following three criteria: The book was designed by a Swiss designer, the publishing house has its headquarters in Switzerland, or the printing house has its headquarters in Switzerland.
– SPRINT26 presents The Most Beautiful Swiss Books, displaying the 17 titles awarded on the occasion of the competition held by the Federal Office of Culture. In collaboration with Istituto Svizzero
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