NERO presents ASSEMBLAGGIO. Cosa vogliamo di notte, an open, participatory gathering born out of NERO’s editorial experience and its bond with the communities that over the years have taken part in its practices – artists, musicians, activists, performers, assorted humanity – starting from the needs that these communities themselves decide to bring to light, address and share. Night is a complex and layered theme: one to be discussed, questioned, and looked at together from multiple perspectives. Night changes its face depending on the city, the neighborhood, who you are, and how you move through it. It is work, pause, routine, escape, confrontation with oneself; it is collectivity. How, then, can we talk about it? Starting from an open question: not only what do we want from the night, but what do we want at night.
The event takes the form of an assemblage, a moment of collective discussion around themes such as sex, clubbing, the street, and drugs. It is an open invitation to all of us who live the night, as well as a targeted invitation to specific groups, involved in order to enrich and guide the conversation. ASSEMBLAGGIO. Cosa vogliamo di notte is a temporary yet active gathering that leaves behind a concrete trace: an editorial object produced in real time, written, edited, and printed collectively.
The event will take place in the first-floor room dedicated to UNAROMA LIVE.
Free admission until capacity is reached.
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From February 20 to 25, the trace of the intervention produced by NERO will be on view within the exhibition space.
ASSEMBLAGGIO. Cosa vogliamo di notte leaves behind a publication produced in real time through collective writing, editing, and printing that takes place during the event. This unique document is created by assembling fragments and parts of the conversation transcribed, edited, laid out, printed, and bound as the process unfolds. The form of the trace reflects the form of the assemblage itself: collective, fluid, temporary, immediate, undefined.
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NERO is an international publishing house founded in Rome in 2004, dedicated to art, criticism and contemporary culture.