Poetry Expo 24
/ 3 February 2024
119 parole per BAU - Contenitore di Cultura Contemporanea, 2023
Poetry Expo 24
Text / video editing: Alessandra Greco
119 words for BAU - Contenitore di Cultura Contemporanea, 2023
The passage lists in sequence the 119 words used to manually personalize the multiples of an unpublished visual table* – [ from the "ascending roots" project, 2021 ] – for BAU - Contenitore di Cultura Contemporanea, 2023.
The piece was born from this experience, with the intention of reproducing what is seen in the image on a sound level, to maintain correspondences between languages on a visual and acoustic level. In the audio track the words erode and overlap, as happens with the words written in the visual table, simulating the trend of a rhizome or a fault-fracture, the physio-bio-logical dimension of writing - of language - on the border between human and non-human.
[* The image in the video is a detail of the visual table]
The project is part of the subthemes Climate Crisis and Poetry and Global unity and shared futures.
Author
Alessandra Greco
Alessandra Greco lives in Florence. Through writing she investigates the various aspects of the process of thought as a flow and in relation to images, through the editing technique.
Among the most recent publications, "Stellare nero", for the Fogli Benway Series, new series, n·13, Colorno Tielleci, 2023. A hexagonal kaleidocycle composed of words that rotates around an empty center. The words return cyclically and reformulate the narrative structure of the text with each rotation.
She is anthologized in "CONTINUO - REPERTORY OF COMPLEX WRITINGS", [dia٠foria - 2023, the first volume of a permanent observatory on "complex writings".
She is among the authors of "BAU Container of Contemporary Culture", n·19 - Viareggio 2023.
She wrote "ascending roots", 2021, for L'Ulisse, magazine of poetry, arts and writings, XXIV, dedicated to the monographic theme Rewriting nature / Crossing the landscape (Lietocolle, 2021). The ascending roots project includes a dedicated photographic series and video. A Still from the video was acquired in April 2023 in the collection of Villa Rondinelli of San Domenico, Fiesole (Fi), within the curatorial program "Out of Court, In friendship" - Art and Botany Section, promoted by Villa Rondinelli, focused about the intersection of nature, art and craft.
One of her contributions within the project "Audio doc sound - starting from a visual script to arrive at a sound document", edited by Pietro D'Agostino, is in Audio doc sound Title#3, 2021.
She wrote "NT (Nessun Tempo)", Arcipelago Itaca, Lacustrine Series, 2020, finalist in the Lorenzo Montano Prize, XXXIV Edition, 2020 and in the Elio Pagliarani Prize, VI Edition, 2020.
"Del venire avanti nel giorno, Libro Azzurro", Lamantica Edizioni, 2019, third place in the Anna Osti Prize, XVII Edition, 2019. Some composition titles of the album "SISMONASTIE" by Elio Martusciello (em_music 2023) are adapted from the book.
Her texts are translated in "Babel, Stati di Alteration", a plurilingual anthology edited by Enzo Campi, Bertoni Editore (2022), and in "oomph! – contemporary works in translation / a multilingual anthology, vol. 2" (2018).
She created performances and readings with attention to sound and his research extended to photography. Her writings and images have appeared in magazines and lit-blogs including "Carteggi Letterari", "Clean", "Il Cucchiaio nell'Orecchio", "eexxiitt.blogspot.com", "GAMMM" "Death by water, abysmal writings ”, “Ulysses”, “Indian Nation”, “Niederngasse”, “UTSANGA”, “Versodove”.
