▀▀▀▄▄▄ SPRINT26 𖡬 TALKS 𖡬 28–29 NOV
📍 Dropcity, Via Sammartini 64
TALK | SAT 28 NOV | 2.00 PM | ITA
EXTREME MUSIC
Polemical Pamphlet: Anarcho-Punk on the ruins of the Communist Revolution (counterculture and music included)
w/ Helena Velena ITA 🔗 Viaindustriae ITA
Navigating music, publishing, and the socio-political context of the '77, Velena constructs an anti-narrative that highlights the cultural tensions and transformations of those years, the echoes of which still resonate today
TALK | SAT 28 NOV | 3.00 PM | ENG
THIS BOOK IS A GATHERING
w/Nina Paim BRA & Sera van de Water NE 🔗 Bikini Books PRT
On feminist publishing as a collective practice, exploring the making of Fem Pub: Cold Type, Hot Politics 1960–1990
TALK | SAT 28 NOV | 4.00 PM | ENG
COMPULSIVE ARCHIVE x ANTIPODE: Archives Across the Borders Conversation between Giulia Vallicelli ITA and Doğa Sultan TUR
On building archives from below, beyond institutions, mainstream publishing, and dominant cultural geographies
TALK | SAT 28 NOV | 5.00 PM | ENG
CRUISING PAVILION: Architecture, Dissident Sex and Cruising Cultures
w/Pierre-Alexandre Mateos & Charles Teyssou FR 🔗 Spector Books DE
What happens to architecture when desire becomes a way of navigating the city?
TALK | SAT 28 NOV | 6.00 PM | ENG
MATERIALISING THE INTANGIBLE
w/Guadalupe Rosales US 🔗 Veteranas & Rucas / Map Pointz US
As an artist & archivist connected to Latinx community and the '90s rave scene through their new books East of the River. A Memoir of Los Angeles Girlhood and Tumbados. Lowriding Memories and Cruising Futures
TALK | SAT 28 NOV | 7.00 PM | ENG
PARAPRAXIS: Publishing as a Practice of Knowledge Production
w/Aurélia Niat Toundji & Salwat Idi 🔗 cahiers manufactoriel FR
Rooted in African oral and performative traditions, parapraxis understands knowledge as relational and in motion rather than fixed. It embraces non-linear and rhizomatic thinking, where meaning emerges through constellations of texts and images
TALK | SUN 29 NOV | 2.00 PM | ITA
LE NEMESIACHE: Reclaiming Mythological Rituals
w/Sonia D'Alto ITA 🔗 Mousse ITA
The first monograph dedicated to Le Nemesiache, a group of feminist, pacifist artists from Naples, founded by Lina Mangiacapre in 1970
TALK | SUN 29 NOV | 3.00–7.00 PM | ITA–ENG
HANGOVER TAKEOVER
Series curated by Istituto Svizzero
Hangover Takeover is a series of talks and screenings dedicated to five books published in 2026, connected to the Istituto’s exhibition programme and artist residencies. Conceived as a marathon, the series brings together a range of artistic practices, linked by recurring themes such as queer forms of resistance, the ironic manipulation of images, and the rewriting of places and alternative histories, moderated by Lucrezia Calabrò Visconti and Barbara Casavecchia.
Vincent Grange presents The House of Dorothy, a book stemming from his eponymous 2025 exhibition at Istituto Svizzero in Milan. Marco Pezzotta (RM), former fellow, presents Decay, an anthology tracing the last ten years of RM’s work. Pauline Boudry and Renate Lorenz present silent speeches, a publication surveying the artistic duo’s career, produced on the occasion of their exhibition how we always survived at Istituto Svizzero in Rome in 2025. Alfredo Aceto, former fellow, introduces a new monograph dedicated to his work and Fastcash, an artist’s book for children exploring the narrative possibilities of repetition and pattern. To close the marathon, Giorgia Basch presents Hexenkurse, reflecting on the radical contribution to art history and feminism represented by the practice of Doris Stauffer, whose work is currently featured in the group exhibition Outlaws at Istituto Svizzero in Rome.
