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SPRINT25  |  28–29–30  NOVEMBER  2025

PUBLIC PROGRAM + ART BOOK FAIR

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SCREENING  |  THE FUTURE… IS JUST HOW YOU IMAGINED IT

by Sara Bezovšek ​

Italian premiere of the experimental animated short by young Slovenian artist Sara Bezovšek, which explores dystopian variations of latent futures distilled from contemporary digital and pop imaginaries. A tight montage of icons, clichés, and cyberpunk visions constructs a reflection that is both critical and celebratory of Internet visual culture and its self-fulfilling prophecies. Bezovšek is also the creator of the SPRINT25 poster/catalog. The video will be screened on loop exclusively during the evening of Friday, November 28th. ​​​

؄Sara Bezovšek is a visual artist working in the fields of internet art, experimental film and graphic design. Her artistic practice is characterized by reappropriation of online and pop cultural materials. Using a dense visual language of references, she taps into the collective imaginarium and constructs engaging narratives that are both a critique and a celebration of the highly saturated online media landscapes we navigate daily.

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28 NOV  |  6–9 PM

📍 Atrium Durazzi

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PERFORMANCE  |  FEEDING BACK THE PRINT by Sergej Vutuc

In collaboration with Compulsive Archive​

The guitar and photocopiers feed the space with waves of mechanical signals and vibrations, leaving printed traces of the moment while guiding the audience toward personal realization through self-publishing. The feedback exists in the vibrations – between the guitar and the scanner, resonating across space and onto paper – echoed in the now-visible process that moves from improvisation to materialization, from transmission to interaction, from cause to effect, from impulse to wavelength, from the singular to the collective. The intensity of participation shapes the buildup into a unified, trance-like rhythm of creative frenzy. As the circle opens and closes, spectators find themselves becoming actors; experimenters turn into authors – bound by the fleeting exchange of energy, and rewarded with both the lasting gift of knowledge and the crystallization of their shared experience into tangible form.' Aymeric Nocus

؄Sergej Vutuc’s (1979 Doboj, Yugoslavia - Bosnia and Herzegovina) growth reverberates the noise of some conflicted local history which uprooted him as far as Zagreb (Croatia) and Heilbronn (Germany) in his most formative years. Spontaneously driven towards D.I.Y. ethics and punk culture at large, he went on to explore, build and exchange around the world - skateboarding in particular being the key to many locks - prior to settling in Berlin, then Paris where his most recent enterprise consists in encouraging print and physical productions under the name A La Maison Printing.

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28 NOV  |  7–8 PM

📍Spazio Maiocchi​​​​

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EXHIBITION  |  THE MATRIX #2

Excursus on Risograph-printed material, apparatus,

soy, rice bran & bananas

The Matrix #2 continues SPRINT’s exploration of Risograph practice with the second chapter of the exhibition inaugurated in 2018. This new episode features an incursion into the contemporary Riso scene with over 20 Italian and international participants, including: Bonus.Duo (MI), Bronze Age (London), Can Can Press (Mexico City), Ciara Quilty-Harper (Barcelona), Clenna (Urbino), Club del Prado (Barcelona/Buenos Aires), Colorama (Berlin), Doewa Matjan (Yogyakarta/Rotterdam), enter press (Bologna), Fruit Salad Press (Lyon), Gloria Glitzer (Berlin), Julie Legrand (Sète, FR), Jumbo Press (Barcelona), Keda Press (Thessaloniki), Kudla Press (Prague), Never Brush My Teeth (Athens), Noemi Vola (Bologna), Oreri—Iniziativa Editoriale (Cagliari), Pilar del Río (Valencia), Secret Riso Club (NY), Tehran Zine (Tehran), The Riso Club (MI), Titivil (Bologna), tulpess (MI), x_x (Buenos Aires), ZOPPOCAVALLO (Milan). The exhibition brings together editions, print trials, and various materials related to the technical production and artisanal attitude of Riso printing, developed in Japan in the 1980s, which combines screen printing with photocopying using plant-based inks and matrices, and low energy consumption.

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28 NOV  |  6–9 PM

29–30 NOV  |  11AM–9PM → LAST ENTRY 8.30PM

📍 Atrium Durazzi

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EXHIBITION  |  The Word for World

The Maps of Ursula K. Le Guin – Curated by Sarah Shin

Exhibition and presentation of the book dedicated to maps created by writer Ursula K. Le Guin, with curator and researcher Sarah Shin. Through drawings, images, and texts, ‘The Word for World’ explores how the author built her narrative worlds from imaginary geography, suggesting new ways to read the present and an expanded approach to cartography. Co-published by Spiral House and AA Publications, the project includes an exhibition at the Architectural Association in London until December 6, 2025, with a special spin-off display for SPRINT25 at Spazio Maiocchi. Special thanks to Ursula K. Le Guin Foundation.​​

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28 NOV  |  6–9 PM

29–30 NOV  |  11AM–9PM → LAST ENTRY 8.30PM

📍Spazio Maiocchi

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EXHIBITION  |  THE MOST BEAUTIFUL SWISS BOOKS

in collaboration with Istituto Svizzero​

'The Most Beautiful Swiss Books' will display - in collaboration with Istituto Svizzero - the twenty titles awarded on the occasion of the prestigious competition held by the Federal Office of Culture that brings together the best of Swiss publishing. Each year, the award celebrates the work of the most talented book designers and their outstanding achievements in book production and art, highlighting and promoting high-quality works that reflect contemporary trends. A 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/printing house has its headquarters in Switzerland.

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'The Most Beautiful Swiss Books' 2024 – awarded 2025 → LIST HERE

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The books will be on view during SPRINT Milano ABF hosted at Spazio Maiocchi and after will move to Ten Thousand Feet, an independent creative studio and a physical space where intimate events related to design, publishing, photography, and illustration take place. 

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28 NOV  |  6–9PM

29–30 NOV  |  11AM–9PM → LAST ENTRY 8.30PM

📍Spazio Maiocchi

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02–15 DEC

Mon–Fri  11AM–5PM

Sat. & Public Holidays  2–6PM

Sun. Closed

📍Ten Thousand Feet​​

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EXHIBITION  |  GLOBAL TOOLS

Stencil collection from technical pieces to artist’s multiples​

Elements conceived to standardize and unify lines, shapes, and letters through the practice of manual geometric drafting. These obsolete tools from an increasingly digitalized workflow remain both a formal and conceptual vehicle toward an idea of experimentation and possibility – embracing, among other things, the creative potential of error and smudging. Works by – Paula de Álvaro, Fernanda Aránguiz, Dafne Boggeri, Displaay Type Foundry w/Mahieu Corbin, Otis Verhoeve, Eilean Friis-Lund & Pierrick Brégeon, Ryan Gender (Printed Matter), Alessandro Guerriero, Antoine Lefebvre Editions, José Quintanar, Maya Strobbe, Taipei Art Book Fair, Riet Wijnen w/DB, Linda van Deursen, Mandy El-Sayegh, Ima-Abasi Okon, Haegue Yang (Kunstverein Milano, P/////AKT, san.serriffe, Kunstverein Toronto) – in dialogue with pieces from a private collection that includes more than 200 technical stencils from the 1970s to the present day. The exhibition’s title pays homage to the radical design experience and its multidisciplinary school program (1973–1975).

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28 NOV  |  6–9 PM

29–30 NOV  |  11AM–9PM → LAST ENTRY 8.30PM

📍Spazio Maiocchi

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BILLBOARD  |  IRELUNDI PRIMA DELLA TEMPESTA

by Noura Tafeche​

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. Her research investigates visual culture and its techno-political entanglements, with a particular focus on digital militarism, online aesthetics, internet hyper-niches, and meme culture, especially within non-Anglophone contexts. For SPRINT25, the artist presents a Billboard installation at Spazio Maiocchi, conceived as an extension of her visual and linguistic research.

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28 NOV  |  6–9 PM

29–30 NOV  |  11AM–9PM → LAST ENTRY 8.30PM

📍Spazio Maiocchi

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SOUND INSTALLATION

SASORI BAR SOUNDTRACK: Songs of the Night Library 

by Christina Vantzou

BOOK TAPE  by Victor Unwin with KERMESSE & Cahier Central​

Based on the Sasori book collection the ‘Sasori Bar Soundtrack’ by Christina Vantzou is an experimental collage and ambient work released as a limited edition cassette. The tape consists of a single continuous musical piece or collection of tracks created specifically for the atmosphere of the installation by Sasori Books at Etablissement d’en Face Projects in Brussels (2024). Sound like poetry, to be listened to with closed eyes.

؄Christina Vantzou is a Greek/American composer and filmmaker based in Brussels who deals with time expansion, atmospheres and harmonies through electronics and acoustic instruments.

 

‘BOOK’ is a two-track audio tape exploring the meditative potentialities of literature – and books in general. Whether it be a novel, a poem, a recipe book, or an instruction manual for a washing machine, printed text allows one’s mind to dwell into alternative systems of reality, in which a certain state of inner peace can be found.

؄Victor Unwin is a French artist based in Paris. After a career as a filmmaker, photographer and creative director, he shifted into a personal artistic practice coupled with an editorial practice. His work has notably been exhibited several times at Galerie Derouillon (Paris) and is part of the Kandinsky Library Collection at the Centre Pompidou.

 

28 NOV  |  6–9 PM

29–30 NOV  |  11AM–9PM → LAST ENTRY 8.30PM

📍Atrium Durazzi 📍Spazio Maiocchi​​​​​

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SPRINT MILANO ART BOOK FAIR 2025  +  SURPRIZE AWARD​

 

 PUBLISHERS LIST 📚 →  HERE

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For this edition, we are presenting at Atrium Durazzi a special ABF section – active from Friday, 28 NOV – dedicated to out-of-print & rare titles, exploring a cross-disciplinary approach to collecting, for both experts or absolute beginners, through the involvement of several local and international bookshops/bibliographic studio.

 

While Spazio Maiocchi – Saturday, 29 NOV and Sunday, 30 NOV – is confirmed as the venue for the classic fair with more than 130 participations from 31 countries, in a cascade of zines, magazines, and books, self-published or by independent houses.

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For the fourth consecutive year, SPRINT supports publishing practice through SURPRIZE award open to all ABF participants. The recognition contributes to the production of a new editorial project to be printed by 2026, promoting research and independent experimentation. The selected recipient will be announced on Saturday, 29 NOV.​

 

28 NOV  |  6–9 PM

29–30 NOV  |  11AM–9PM → LAST ENTRY 8.30PM

📍 Atrium Durazzi

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29–30 NOV  |  11AM–9PM → LAST ENTRY 8.30PM

📍Spazio Maiocchi​

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TALK  |  29 NOV  |  2.00 PM

 

Napoli balla. Dancefloor e sottoculture nella città postcoloniale

w/Gennaro Ascione 🔗 Tamu Edizioni​​

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‘Napoli balla’ explores Naples’ musical subcultures from the 1970s to the present day, where superstars like Pino Daniele and Liberato intertwine with record producers, DJs, clubbers, and hidden orchestral musicians. The dance floor becomes a social space of decolonization: roots in Africa, heart in the Atlantic, gaze toward the global metropolises. In nightclubs, garages, or beneath tuff-stone trapdoors, Naples moves – secret and elusive – tracing stories invisible to traditional archives.

؄Gennaro Ascione (Naples, 1978) is a sociologist and writer. He is an Associate Professor at the University of Naples L’Orientale, specializing in postcolonial studies, non-Western epistemologies, and modernity. Among his publications are ‘Science and the Decolonization of Social Theory’ (2016) and ‘Concept Formation in Global Studies’ (2024).

 

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TALK  |  29 NOV  |  3.00 PM

Gendered Labour and Clitoridean Revolt

Leopoldina Fortunati & Sara Colantuono in conversation 🔗 Fillip​​​​

 

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In conjunction with SPRINT, Fillip (Vancouver, Canada) is pleased to present Leopoldina Fortunati and Sara Colantuono in conversation for the Italian launch of Gendered Labour and Clitoridean Revolt: Leopoldina Fortunati and Carla Lonzi. Folio G presents new translations of significant texts by two poles of Italian feminist thought – Leopoldina Fortunati and Carla Lonzi – to examine the 'unexpected subject' of women in society and history. These texts are accompanied by contextual essays that explore the reverberation of their thought in contemporary artistic practice, theory, and models of creating freedom for women in everyday life.

؄Leopoldina Fortunati is a feminist Marxist, activist, and theorist. She was active in the student movement in 1968, and subsequently in Potere Operaio (Worker's Power), Lotta Femminista (Women’s Struggle), and the Wages for Housework movement, contributing to the latter two groups’ core theoretical and political texts. She is the author of ‘L’arcano della riproduzione. Casalinghe, prostitute, operai e capitale’ Marsilio, 1981, published in English as ‘The Arcane of Reproduction: Housework, Prostitution, Labor and Capital’ Autonomedia, 1995. With Mariarosa Dalla Costa, she published ‘Brutto ciao. Direzioni di marcia delle donne negli ultimi 30 anni’ [Brutto ciao. The course of womens’ marches over the last 30 years] Edizioni delle donne, 1977; and, with Silvia Federici, ‘Il Grande Calibano. Storia del corpo sociale ribelle nella prima fase del capitale’ [The Great Caliban. History of the rebellious social body in the first phase of capital] Franco Angeli, 1984. In her subsequent work in media and technology studies, Fortunati has authored many articles and edited multiple collections on the feminist implications of the mechanization of the sphere of reproduction. Fortunati is a senior professor of Sociology of Communications and Culture in the department of Mathematical, Computer, and Physical Sciences at the University of Udine, where she founded and directed the ‘NuMe’ new media research lab. She is an ICA Fellow.

؄Sara Colantuono is a teacher and a scholar who works at the intersection of Italian studies, gender and sexuality studies, and translation studies. She earned her doctoral degree in 2024 from Brown University. Her dissertation, ‘The Catholic Matrix of Italian Feminism: From Carla Lonzi to Michela Murgia’, proposes a rethinking of the cultural history of postwar Italy in light of the political relevance of Catholic modes of relation and symbology across several decades of feminist practice and theory. Her new translation, with Arlen Austin, of Leopoldina Fortunati's ‘L’arcano della riproduzione. Casalinghe, prostitute, operai e capitale’ [The Arcane of Reproduction: Housewives, Prostitutes, Workers and Capital] was published in 2025 by Verso Books. She has worked as assistant editor at differences: a Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies and has taught at Brown University and Tufts University.

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TALK  |  29 NOV  |  4.00 PM

‘The Word for World’ Exhibiting and Publishing the Maps of

Ursula K. Le Guin w/Sara Shin 🔗 Silver Press / AA Publication​s​​

 

📍Atrium Durazzi  |  ENG  |  FREE REGISTRATION → HERE ✎

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When Ursula K. Le Guin was writing a new story, she would begin by drawing a map. Sarah Shin introduces The Word for World – a book and exhibition presenting maps and images by the celebrated author, considering how her imaginary worlds enable us to re-envision our own – and her journeys of consciousness beyond conventional cartography. The Word for World book is co-published by Spiral House and AA Publications and the exhibition is at the Architectural Association, London, until 6 December 2025. 

؄Sarah Shin explores dreams, myth, cosmic speculation and transformation through writing, research, publishing and curation. She is among the founders of Silver Press, the feminist publisher and Spiral House, its new imprint for art, poetry and ways of knowing, and Standard Deviation, a multidisciplinary collective exploring the coincidence of psychic, geometric and inhabited spaces.

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TALK  |  29 NOV  |  5.00 PM

Alessandro Ludovico ‘Post–Digital Print’ 🔗 Timeo​​

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In 1894, Octave Uzanne and Albert Robida wrote: ‘Books must disappear, or they will ruin us.’ The telegraph, by then, already had a history spanning a century, and only a few years separated that statement from the invention of the radio. The age of television would then arrive, and later that of the internet – and with the advent of every new information transmission technology, someone has prophesied the disappearance of books, always wrongly: proof of this is the fact that this text by Alessandro Ludovico, which you hold in your hands, still possesses all the characteristics that have distinguished books since their invention. Publishing, however, has certainly changed a great deal, and ‘Post-Digital Print’ is essential for anyone who wishes to trace its history and follow its evolutions – from heretical and underground publications to the visions of H.G. Wells, from the mimeograph to print-on-demand, from photocopied fanzines to e-book readers. ‘Post-Digital Print’ is a fascinating and more necessary than ever account, useful for understanding the instrument that for centuries has carried and transmitted human thought, and for refuting the next prophets of doom who will arise: books, by adapting to the times, will continue to endure for a long time at the center of our society.

؄Researcher, artist, and editor-in-chief of the magazine Neural since 1993, Alessandro Ludovico is Associate Professor at the Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton. He has published and edited several books, including 'Virtual Reality Handbook' (1992), 'Internet Underground Guide' (1995), 'Post-Digital Print' (2012), and 'Tactical Publishing' (2024), and has lectured all over the world. He also worked as a consultant for the Magazine Project of Documenta 12. He is one of the authors of the award-winning artistic trilogy 'Hacking Monopolism' (Google Will Eat Itself, Amazon Noir, Face to Facebook).

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TALK  |  30 NOV  |  2.00 PM

From Bauhaus to hour house: Let’s talk about tubes

w/ Michele Galluzzo & Roberto Dulio 🔗 Press Press​​

 

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Presentation of ‘Baustraße: A Specimen Book in Three Acts’, a volume curated by Fantasia Type and published by Press Press Milano. The book is dedicated to the Baustraße typeface and explores how the Bauhaus became intertwined with twentieth-century popular culture. Fantasia Type, in conversation with architectural historian Roberto Dulio, will reflect on how the ideas of the German school were democratized through the spread of stereotypes, misunderstandings, and appropriations.

؄Fantasia Type is a research and design studio focused on typography and type design. Founded by Franziska Weitgruber and Michele Galluzzo in 2020, and based in Laces (Bozen) and Milan, it combines type design and historical research around letters, understood as cultural objects. The duo develops retail typefaces as well as custom fonts, visual identities, typographic installations, workshops, and publications.

؄Roberto Dulio is an Associate Professor of Architectural History at the Politecnico di Milano (DABC). His research focuses on modern and contemporary architecture and its intersections with art and photography. He has curated exhibitions, published books and essays, and collaborated with journals such as ‘L’architettura. Cronache e storia’, ‘Casabella’, ‘Domus’, and ‘Il Sole 24 Ore’.

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TALK  |  30 NOV  |  3.00 PM

GABBER ELEGANZA:

‘Manga Corps – An Archive of Japanese Rave Artifacts’​​

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Alberto Guerrini (Gabber Eleganza) introduces the publication ‘Manga Corps’ (Never Sleep), a mesmerizing 192-page visual anthology that chronicles over a decade of Japan’s hardcore techno and rave culture. From flyers and artifacts from the 1990s to the early 2000s, the book offers a rare insight into a DIY fantasy marked by cyberpunk aesthetics, otaku culture, and the visual impact of manga – from early raves in Osaka to the explosion of Tokyo scene.

؄Started as an online archive by the artist and dj Alberto Guerrini in 2011. The aim of the project is to build up dialogues on the sonic landscape and aesthetic of Hardcore Continuum and post-rave, within the context of contemporary art and music.​​​

 

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TALK  |  30 NOV  |  4.00 PM

MALANDRE: Deconstructing Latinx Club Culture

Through Print, Design, and Community​​

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Malandre is a bilingual (Spanish/English) fanzine created by Venezuelan DJ and visual artist Andrea Karina, based in Paris. The publication explores the universe of Latin post-club and alternative Latinx sounds – a soundscape that functions as a tool of cultural reclamation, weaving Latin identity and diasporic experience into global club culture. Rooted in deconstruction and DIY publishing practices, Malandre examines how independent print media can act as both an archive and an agent of legitimization for an underground scene often marginalized within hegemonic techno frameworks. Drawing from Derrida’s notion that the archive is bound to law and legitimacy, the fanzine positions itself as a platform that amplifies deconstructed Latin voices and affirms their place within contemporary cultural discourse. 

؄Andrea Karina is a Venezuelan DJ and visual artist living in Paris whose work bridges South American rhythms and global club culture. Her sets weave together reggaeton, dembow, breakcore, and techno, channeling a raw post-club energy that feels both visceral and reflective. She is also the founder of Malandre, a fanzine exploring Latinx club culture through sound, image, and critical thought.

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