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Mattia Capelletti & Costanza Candeloro
Idioletta
PORTFOLIO
Idioletta
O’, Milano
September 20th 2016
Ten artists rendered the work of ten au-
thors through performative readings. Se-
lected poets contributed with new works
the artists could draw from.
Building up to the event, NERO hosted
unpublished poems by each author.
Enrico Boccioletti • Niina Pollari
Andrea Magnani • Jennifer Kronovet
Fenêtreproject • Daniel Borzutzky
Elena Radice • Jeff Dolven
Lorenza Longhi • Susan Wheeler
CM Gratitude • Ana Bozicevic
Real Madrid • David Tomas Martinez
Axelle Stiefel • CAConrad
Venturi & Vasiljevic • Matthew Dickman
Alessandro Di Pietro • Monica McClure
A series of actions takes place in a mo-
onlike scenario. The atmosphere is rari-
fied and the pace is suspended. An invisi-
ble dog takes a walk; a pillow starts talking;
the spectre of the late David Duchovny ap-
pears and waltzes to Elton John’s “Rocket
Man”...
Actor Lorenzo Gentilini navigates this
landscape as an astronaut. His actions di-
rect the audience’s attention through the
disseminated happenings.
Interventions were sequenced according
to a loose dramaturgy, a balancing of mo-
ods, and the space was treated as in an
expanded choreography.
Beyond the walls of this house others will be nice to you.
They will not ridicule you every day.
And if you’ve something to say, they’ll say okay.
I will put a nickel in the penny pot at Joe’s,
I will make like Roxanne’s saying something new.
And if I’m stuck with Lame C crew, I’ll make do.
He’s spinning, sponging and the man in the street –
He’s sponging the worst off the man in the street –
The hawk’s got a pigeon and it’s slamming its steak –
It wasn’t my fault –
It wasn’t my fault –
So for Pete’s sake go make breakfast and then wake me up.
Wake Louise and me when you’ve seen J Z twice;
When it’s ready everything is new, you’ll make nice, you’ll make do.
Susan Wheeler
Penny Lane
dear boy scouts of the
great illusion with
hard-ons for
armageddon
enemies
must not
outnumber
the friends to
prove beauty and
kindness can succeed
snicker all you want at his
asking price but come to know his
ejaculate will
rip the
back of
your
head
off
CA Conrad
Earth poem n°21
‘s
LGG$B: Billion Balances
Agalma, Milano
November 25th 2016
Billion Balances was a one-day solo show
by Geneva collective LGG$B. Idioletta cu-
rated Billion Balances on invitation by
SPRINT Independent Publishers and Arti-
sts’ Books Salon.
Loren Kagny, Gaia Vincensini, Giulia
Essyad and Sabrina Röthlisberger presen-
ted collective and individual pieces. Alon-
gside with the exhibition, which featured
sculptures, drawings and textiles, they set
up a parallel booth to the fair where they
sold fanzines, customized jewels, candles,
earrings and cakes. Craft is rooted in their
practice as much as language is inscribed
in it: Giulia’s poems, which can be found
engraved, carved, scratched and embossed
in most of their works, were recited by the
artist in a reading.
Talking about foot bathing with friends,
we came to the conclusion that the stri-
ctly feminine practice of laying one’s
feet into saltwater, originates from mer-
maids. Feet - the human reminiscence of
the fish’s tail - must reconcile with their
original saltwater environment. Howe-
ver odd, this theory was useful to me
over time in order to explain a series of
phenomena that, otherwise, would have
just appeared alien, inscrutable.
Loren, Gaia, Giulia, Sabrina’s work and
foot bathing speaks to us of how, through
daily practices, one can access a recon-
dite past and pass it on, how this process
is driven by the necessity of founding a
personal cosmology, a personal lineage
that doesn’t have much to do with actual
genealogy.
LGG$B are the daughters of the Kahi-
na, of Tori Amos and Tony Montana.
Writing becomes constant, continuous
(it isn’t reduced to the mere act of wri-
ting), it is a process in which all their
work is involved, because in this way,
they tend to the construction of a paral-
lel dimension.
This world in miniature, this affective
network, fits into their backpacks, in their
bedrooms and even in an exhibition.
Idioletta participated to SPRINT fair with a booth where to host books by the poets we collaborated with back in September, along with publica- tions by LGG$B and bookends desi- gned by Costanza based on doodles found in Sylvia Plath’s diary.
Jajmad Dispersed Holdings, New York December 3rd, 2016 Invited to contribute to a programme described as a “celebration of reading” by poet Jeff Dolven, Idioletta participa- ted with an original short film. Dolven curated the event at Manhattan’s artist run space Dispersed Holdings (former ly the studio of Eva Hesse). At that time, Lisa Dalfino had just showed us a toilet paper roll she had been painting over for five years. She animated the characters printed on the paper to depict an ab- stract origin story mixing Christian co- smogony with sci-fi and fantasy folktales imagery, in the mode typical of Italian magical realism. We filmed the scrolling of the roll and asked sound artist Francesco Cavalie- re, whose work is driven by a similar mythopoeic drive as Lisa’s, to record a soundtrack to accompany it.
Malelingue Flash Art Italia: In residence July 2017 Quadriennale di Roma: Fuori October 2020 - May 2021 Throughout history and among different cultures and societies, idiosyncratic lyri- cism and performative use vocality have always been defining attributes for desi- gnating magicians, shamans, charmers, storytellers – and poets. In Malelingue, we pay hommage to these spellbinders of vocality with transcriptions of their oral accounts that never before appeared in weitten form. This ongoing antholo- gy project takes the form of graphic in- terventions appearing in different con- texts – most recently at Quadriennale di Roma 2020 on invitation by queer artist collective TOMBOYS DON’T CRY.
DJ Balli: The 8-bit Prometheus Archivio Primo Moroni, C.S.O.A. Cox18 December 21st 2018 Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is now a bi- centennial creature. To celebrate the an- niversary, Idioletta presents “The 8-Bit Prometheus”, a performance by DJ Balli & McShell8Bit. Balli adopts Shelley’s creature as a pro- ductive figuration through which we can rethink the history of monstruous musi- cal creation. The assemblage of uneven samples, an internal struggle of confli- cting parts, is animated by the DJ/Dr. In Balli’s hands, lo-fi technology becomes the only possible solution to the inhe- rent cohesion of the different organs, compressed by an infernal machine that flattens differences.
Shelley’s Frankenstein is transmogrified into Balli’s own Frankenstein Goes to Holocaust, which collects the DJ’s research. Idioletta encounters this “book remix” in the form of a séance, aimed at the reanimation and resignification of the canonical body/text. The Archivio Primi Moroni – collecting the books, zines and documents of Primo Moroni, anarchist librarian, alternative in- formation agitator and counterculture ad- vocate – offers the perfect setting for this clandestine meeting.
COSTANZA CANDELORO (b. 1990) is an artist ba- sed between Milano, Bologna and Genéve. She graduated in 2014 a the ’Haute Ecole d’Art et Design (HEAD) in Genéve. In 2016 she took part of the exhibition Ehi, Voi! curated by Michele D’Au- rizio fot the Quadriennale di Roma. Other recent collective exhibitions include Erba Voglio (Wallriss, Freiburg), Le leggi dell’Ospitalità, curated by Antonio Grulli (Galleria P420, Bologna), and Pocari Swea- ts (Truth and Consequences, Genéve) of which she was also co-curator. Together with artist Marion Goix she was part of the duo CM Gratitude. The project took part in va- rious manifestazioni like How to show up (SanSeriffe, Amsterdam), ZeZeZe (Forde, Genéve) and Curbit Fe- stival. In 2016 they performed Three Little Rooms at the Theatre de L’Usine in Genéve. Her artistic practice consists of plural or indivi- dual actions that deal with the particular knowledge produced by the experience of groups of people or singularities. Subcultures and alternative cultures are understood by the artist as the subjects of narra- tions where memory and personal history become redefining elements of cultural contexts and histo- rical facts. MATTIA CAPELLETTI (b. 1991) is a writer and in- dependent curator. Along with Simone Bertuzzi, he co-curates Palm Wine, a website dedicated to post-global visual and sonic cultures. As a resear- cher, he is interested in the ontology and politics of the human voice. His recent writing has appeared on Flash Art, while books he curated have been pu- blished by Mousse and NERO. MATTIA and COSTANZA work together as Idiolet- ta since 2016.
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