TUONAVANO
by Patrizia Vicinelli, edited by Achille Filipponi
Axis Axis continues its focus on the relationship between orality and poetry with this monographic edition that offers an overview on the incredible personality of this pivotal figure from the Italian neo-avant-garde poetry scene. The 12" vinyl contains several unpublished audio performances and a B side with an unpublished moving audio-recording by Alberto Grifi of Vicinelli who tells him a dream, in drowsiness. Throughout the vinyl Vicinelli’s voice follows her provocative, deconstructed, phonetic and polyglot writing, as a founding tool of her expressionistic dynamism capable of underscoring the historic changes that took place across the years of the poet’s short lifetime. The edition is curated by Achille Filipponi and contains also a twelve pages stapled glossy booklet with essays by Allison Grimaldi Donahue, Enzo Minarelli and a text by Archivio Alberto Grifi.
Listening to Vicinelli there is a continually renewed surprise, the poet is not always aware of where language will take her. Language, the thing, both fully hers and belonging to no one, carries her as much as it carries the listener. [...] Poetry is no aesthetic pleasure in such contexts, it is pleasure itself, life itself, a reminder that language is a primary need and element of survival. When reading and listening to Vicinelli, one is put in close contact with the origins of poetry—based in a cry, a song. It seems like everything she wrote is a score—even Messmer, a novel, is full of sound: a train that goes “ta ta pum,” a voice that rushes through an inner monologue, exhausted, strung out, breathless. The energy and speed of the sounds shift the reader’s perception of writing into a time-based art, where things are happening, evolving.
Allison Grimaldi Donahue
Patrizia Vicinelli has been part of the Italian artistic political activism and underground literary scene as part of Gruppo 63 and having contacts with Emilio Villa, Adriano Spatola and Aldo Braibanti, as well as central figures from the italian experimental cinema scene of the 1970s, like Alberto Grifi and Gianni Castagnoli. Vinyl has been published on occasion of the exhibition "Chi ha paura di Patrizia Vicinelli?", curated by Luca Lo Pinto and hosted at MACRO – Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome (2022).
12" vinyl
140gr
+
high quality download digital album
glossy stapled book
32x32 cm
12 pag (ITA-ENG)
limited edition
300 copies
TUONAVANO
by Patrizia Vicinelli, edited by Achille Filipponi
Axis Axis continues its focus on the relationship between orality and poetry with this monographic edition that offers an overview on the incredible personality of this pivotal figure from the Italian neo-avant-garde poetry scene. The 12" vinyl contains several unpublished audio performances and a B side with an unpublished moving audio-recording by Alberto Grifi of Vicinelli who tells him a dream, in drowsiness. Throughout the vinyl Vicinelli’s voice follows her provocative, deconstructed, phonetic and polyglot writing, as a founding tool of her expressionistic dynamism capable of underscoring the historic changes that took place across the years of the poet’s short lifetime. The edition is curated by Achille Filipponi and contains also a twelve pages stapled glossy booklet with essays by Allison Grimaldi Donahue, Enzo Minarelli and a text by Archivio Alberto Grifi.
Listening to Vicinelli there is a continually renewed surprise, the poet is not always aware of where language will take her. Language, the thing, both fully hers and belonging to no one, carries her as much as it carries the listener. [...] Poetry is no aesthetic pleasure in such contexts, it is pleasure itself, life itself, a reminder that language is a primary need and element of survival. When reading and listening to Vicinelli, one is put in close contact with the origins of poetry—based in a cry, a song. It seems like everything she wrote is a score—even Messmer, a novel, is full of sound: a train that goes “ta ta pum,” a voice that rushes through an inner monologue, exhausted, strung out, breathless. The energy and speed of the sounds shift the reader’s perception of writing into a time-based art, where things are happening, evolving.
Allison Grimaldi Donahue
Patrizia Vicinelli has been part of the Italian artistic political activism and underground literary scene as part of Gruppo 63 and having contacts with Emilio Villa, Adriano Spatola and Aldo Braibanti, as well as central figures from the italian experimental cinema scene of the 1970s, like Alberto Grifi and Gianni Castagnoli. Vinyl has been published on occasion of the exhibition "Chi ha paura di Patrizia Vicinelli?", curated by Luca Lo Pinto and hosted at MACRO – Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome (2022).
12" vinyl
140gr
+
high quality download digital album
glossy stapled book
32x32 cm
12 pag (ITA-ENG)
limited edition
300 copies