Editor-in-Chief Francesca Pionati
Editorial Coordinator Lisa Andreani
Creative Director Tommaso Arnaldi
Art Director and Graphic Designer Nicolò Pellarin
Published by Paint It Black with the support of Gucci.
Presented at Artissima Fair 2022.
In 2022 Iniziative di II was presented in the form of a magazine, exploring possible correlations between two apparently antithetical terms: performance and publishing.
What happens when two media that are apparently opposite – one ephemeral, dependent to the body, fluid, the other reproducible, archivable, unmodifiable – meet?
How will the result of this encounter relate to contemporary forms of media?
What tension does performance show that can’t be recognized within texts or documents?
Wishing to expand the relationship between archive/documentation and ephemeral forms of expression and knowledge transmission, a series of artists and researchers were asked to develop an editorial piece that was not the mere documentation of their performative work, but rather one of its integral parts.
The result is an artists’ magazine combining academic research with various artistic and editorial practices, to present its reader with an object that can disclose different verbal and non-verbal meaning.
Diana Taylor
Francesca Pionati
Riccardo Benassi
Michelangelo Miccolis and Lisa Andreani
Tommaso Arnaldi
Eva Barto
Eleonora Luccarini
Triple Candie
Nicholas Korody
Rujana Cantoni and Lera Polivanova
Carlo Antonelli
MIAMISAFARI
Clara Amaral and Nuno Beijinho
Allison Grimaldi Donahue
Villa Lontana Records x Sylvano Bussotti
Daniele Paonessa x Nikko Amandonico