This new episode of Dispatch comes out on the occasion of the #Giornatadelcontemporaneo organized by AMACI — Association of Italian Contemporary Art Museums.

I invited Nicola Pecoraro, artist and creator of my avatar, to curate this special episode. Drawing intuitively from the landscapes that surround him, he proposed for my podcast a remix of heterogeneous contents, such as the sound elements taken from everyday life and the fragments of songs that trace his research or his collaborations and make up a collage of voices.

In this episode:

1. Intro
2. Nicola Pecoraro, Respire L’infinir, 2020 (excerpt)
3. Interlude 1
4. Edited posts from the electronic music forum on gearslutz.com
5. Interlude 2
6. Introduction chapter from The Last Man, by Mary W. Shelley, 1826 (part 1)
7. Interlude 3
8. Introduction chapter from The Last Man, by Mary W. Shelley, 1826 (part 2)

In this episode:

1. Randy Kennedy, Language as Sculpture, Words as Clay on “New York Times”

2. Leonard Cohen, First of all, from The Book of Longing

3. Brown Thornbill, Ambleside, Devonport, Tasmania, Australia

4. Etel Adnan, taken from The cost for love we are not willing to pay

5. John Cage, In love with another sound

6. Press Release Lo Savio, la Galleria D’arte Selecta, Rome, 1960

This podcast was made during Pauline Julier’s residency at the Swiss Institute of Rome, in occasion of the evening Event Horizon — Là où commence le ciel conceived with Filipa Ramos (September 2002).

Sources are, by order of appearance:

1. Anne Carson, Lecture on the History of Skywritings, © The Louisiana Channel, Louisiana
Museum of Modern Art, 2019

2. Forensic Architecture, Cloud Studies, 2020

3. Quinn Latimer, Dear Drone, Letter in response to Pauline’s video, 2020

4. Vinciane Despret in conversation with Filipa Ramos, 2020

5. Michelangelo Antonioni, Au-delà des nuages in Rien que des mensonges, 1991

6. Helmut Völter, The Movement of Clouds Around Mount Fuji, Photographed and Filmed by
Masanao Abe, 2016

Produced by the Swiss Institute of Rome, in collaboration with MACRO, Rome.

In this episode:

1. Celso Amorim, A Post-Pandemic World Order, on “Progressive International”

2. Fernando Pessoa, Autopsicografia, from Una sola moltitudine

3. Spotless Starling, Toledo, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain

4. Emanuele Coccia, extract from Astrologia del Futuro, “Flash Art”

5. 99chants, chant#1: DAVID AUGUST — DCXXXIX A.C.

6. Press release of the exhibition Under the Sun, by Lawrence Weiner, in 2009 at Espai d’Art Contemporani Castelló

In this episode:

1. Jörg Heiser, “Artists in Quarantine”, public intellectuals, and the trouble with empty heroics

2. Eurasian Wren, Hakone, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan

3. Giorgio Caproni, Sassate

4. Press release of the exhibition Soul of a nation: art in the age of black power, 2017, Tate

5. Amiri Baraka, Who Will Survive America?, 2012

In this episode:

1. Slavoj Žižek, What I like about coronavirus, on “Spectator Usa”

2. Yellow-Fronted Parrot, Wondo Genet Forestry College, Southern Nations, Ethiopia

3. Patrizia Vicinelli, February 1962

4. Wolfgang Tillmans, On My Own, 2018

5. Press release of the exhibition Visual and Non-Visual Art Expression in 1940 at The Museum of Modern Art

6. Arundhati Roy, Il nostro compito è fermare il motore, from “Comune Info”.

In this episode:

1. Bruno Latour, Immaginare gesti-barriera contro il ritorno alla produzione pre-crisi, from “Antinomie Scritture e Immagini”

2. Laughing Falcon, Sendero Ojo de Agua, Guanacaste, Costa Rica

3. James Lee Byars, Text of The Hundred One Page Stone Books

4. Arvo Part, Salve Regina, 2006

5. Press release announcing the Robert Morris exhibition at the Tate Gallery, scheduled 28 April — 6 June 1971

In this episode:

1. Filipa Ramos, What the virus wants, from “The Contemporary Journal”

2. Northen Cardinal, Merritt Island, Florida, USA

4. Bernadette Mayer, Fish & Chips, from Poetry Foundation

5. Giacinto Scelsi, “Chukrum”

3. Press Release of the exhibition The Clock, Christian Marclay

In this episode:

1. Giorgio Agamben, Distanziamento sociale, from Una Voce on Quodlibet.it

2. Chipping Sparrow, Washington, Maryland, USA

3. Open Letter II, by Storm de Hirsch, from Mythology for the Soul: The Collected Poems of Storm de Hirsch

4. Sabbie Vergini, Albergo Intergallatico Spaziale

5. Press Release of the seminal exhibition Information, which took place at the MoMA in 1970

In this episode:

1. Timothy Morton, Thank Virus for Symbiosis, from The Corona Essays

2. Melodious Blackbird, San Josè, Costa Rica

3. Patrizia Cavalli, from Le mie poesie non cambieranno il mondo

4. Aphex Twin, Tha2 (world scam mix)

5. Paul Preciado, The loser conspiracy, from “Artforum”