contributors
contributors
Alessandra Cianelli
Alessandra Cianelli is a researcher, artist, and cultural practitioner. Her research develops into works at the intersection of private and collective memory practices, through the production of video, audio, texts, installations, performances and lectures. Her most recent project, Il Paese Delle Terre D’Oltremare
(The Land of Overseas Territories), explores colonial archives, focusing on the monumental exhibition complex Mostra D’Oltremare in Naples. A member of the Centre for Postcolonial and Gender Studies at the Oriental University, she founded the Dormire foundation in 2014, an informal residence project for artists, thinkers and researchers.
two photos of Dormitio Virginis, 2016
Anna Maria Civico
Anna Maria Civico's practice incorporates voice, movement, research and writing. Her work centres around unearthing and revitalising archaic Mediterranean songs through live interventions. Mnemosine
and
Mnemosyne
are two elements of her current approach that additionally reflect Greek culture. Just as traverzine mirrors the 's' in traverse,
Mnemosine
and
Mnemosyne's slight shift of one letter, from 'i' to 'y', traces subtle paths. In its tactile form, the felt and cotton piece marked with acrylic is passed from hand to hand as an aide-memoire to earlier sensibilities. Wrapped in tissue, tied with string, the textile is accompanied by a text, attached with a pearl-topped pin, printed on near translucent paper, with suggestions on how to memorise its poem before sleep. The piece similarly engages in practices recalled by heart in song and movement – a combined gift of far-reaching closeness at a time of personal distance.
video, Mnemosyne; video, Mnemosine
Bob Farrer
Bob Farrer studied photography at the University of Westminster, London, and worked at the British Museum and Royal College of Art. Based in Hertfordshire, he has taught at Middlesex University and the London College of Communications. He is currently exploring how the mixed emotions associated with a range of common issues can impact well-being. In keeping with these interests, Bob facilitates therapeutic photography courses at a local hospice.
two photos from series 5,200 million litres a day
Cosimo Miorelli • CZM (Biella, Italy, 1986) is a Berlin-based illustrator and live-painter. He explores and mixes diverse graphic storytelling media: illustration, live-painting, animation, comics and traditional painting. His research currently focuses on live performances and multimedia storytelling, including theatre productions and animated videos for museums and documentary films. CZM has collaborated with musicians such as RAF, Fabrizio Nocci, Stefano Bechini, Saba Anglana, Badara Seck, Vincenzo Vasi, Ivan Bert, Fernando Mota, Mark Pinhasov, Giovanni Maier, Luigi Cinque, Giorgio Mirto, GUP Alcaro, Loris Vescovo, Giorgio Pacorig, writers Stefano Benni and Paolo Rumiz, actors Gigio Alberti and Roberto Zibetti.
illustration, Urban Whaling, 2014; live painting, Der Träumer - BLU, PLATINE Festival, Cologne, Germany, 2016
David Rogerson
David Rogerson works collaboratively as part of ARM, a UK-based, cross-disciplinary arts practice. His approach is multi-disciplinary, working across online, interactive, installation, performance, video, sound and gaming. He was Director of Digital and Publishing at Sonic Arts Network and Head of Digital at Sound and Music. As curator, editor, commissioner and producer he worked with figures such as Karlheinz Stockhausen, Bill Fontana, Zach Lieberman, Stewart Lee, Jeremy Deller and Hans Peter Kuhn. He was head of London-based interactive design studio icoEx whose portfolio includes work for Google, Wellcome Collection, V&A, Hayward Gallery, Science Museum and Crafts Council.
video, That Sinking Feeling, ARM, 2018; proposal, The Baths, ARM, 2016
Cinema producer, director and scriptwriter, Gianfilippo Pedote has produced over 40 feature films and documentaries with directors such as Agostino Ferrente, Sandro Baldoni, Alina Marazzi, Paolo Vari and Antonio Bocola, Paolo Rosa and Studio Azzurro, Giuseppe Bertolucci, and Godfrey Reggio, who have participated in major international film festivals. He teaches at the Academy of Fine Art, Milan, Italy.
selection from filmography
Patricia Grzonka is an independent art and architectural historian and critic based in Vienna. She studied art history in Zurich and Rome. In 2021, she completed her PhD in architectural theory at Vienna University of Technology. She currently teaches at both the University of Applied Arts, Vienna, and Universität Kassel.
Sarah Waring
After studying Photography at the Royal College of Art, Sarah Waring continued living in London for ten years, exhibiting, working as a commercial editor, managing creative and literary publishing initiatives, and teaching at the University of Westminster and University of the Arts London. She then travelled extensively throughout Europe and wrote Farming for the Landless, which has also been published in Italian (Agricoltura per senza terra). Time expanded when she arrived in an Italian Alpine village where her sense of the most important aspects of life found renewed expression. She currently lives in Vienna and edits for Eurozine. Her most recent publication,
Stray Pieces, is a collection of narrative non-fiction accompanied by visual artwork, which investigates transformative moments at times of uncertainty.
drawings, Wiener Linien, 2019; contribution to Xin Cheng's A Seedbag for Resourcefulness, Materialverlag – HFBK Hamburg, 2019
Sergio Bini – stage name Bustric – is a writer, director and actor. As a theatre performer, his work is colourful, comic, poetic and definitely unique. His shows have been staged in many European countries and in Somalia, Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay and North America, delivered in Italian, English and French. He played the role of Ferruccio in the Oscar-winning film Life is Beautiful, 1999, and starred in Silvano Agosti’s Quartiere
(District), Comencini’s Marcellino, Pane e Vino
(Marcellino, Bread and Wine), Il Mnemonista
from Studio Azzurro and Ricky Tognazzi’s Il Papa Buono
(The Good Pope).
video, Bustric agli Uffizi 1
(Bustric at the Uffizi 1), 2016; video still