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DISPATCH N° 6

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Dispatch is a podcast created exclusively for the museum’s website. An audio bulletin of knowledge which brings together excerpts from books, essays, aphorisms, poems, press releases, soundtracks, and stories in a diachronic dimension.

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Non-conformist figures and atypical stories from a more or less recent past. A series of exhibition-workshops to investigate personalities that have blurred the boundaries between disciplines, movements and generations, or have assumed erratic perspectives with respect to conventional canons.

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DISPATCH N° 6

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

DISPATCH N° 5

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”.

DISPATCH N° 4

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

DISPATCH N° 3

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

DISPATCH N° 2

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

DISPATCH N° 1

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”

Contact
Maddalena Bonicelli
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m.bonicelli@museomacro.it
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