For more than 30 years our work has been based on open and collaborative projects. Processes that, perhaps, are born out of compulsive reactions to being immersed in an urban “landscape of words”…
Choose a day, pick a street close to home and start walking, in the meantime record everything that you read around you. After a while you will have enough words; signs, advertising on billboards, garbage, graffiti, brands, posters… For the most part they are commercial advertising that change with the seasons and the turnover of the shops. With all these words, gathered over the course of many months, we create visualizations inspired by the labyrinths of C. Castoriadis. Recording and transcribing everything is a slow and long process; it is the result of a precise choice; this piece is part of the series we call “Decelerations”. In December of 2019 we held a workshop at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bergamo and we asked the students to go around recording all the writings they could find on the streets. These writings will become a great painted mural in an open space in the city. It will be a participatory monument that will restitute a moment in the life of Bergamo as it was seized by the young people who collaborated in its creation. It is a contingent and contradictory monument, as it was dedicated to the ephemeral, yet it is able to gather other claims, tags and messages that people will write spontaneously on the accessible surfaces of the mural, expanding it further over time