Reading Group

Starting from some reflections we made together with Can Altay, the current artist in residence at ar/ge kunst and Lungomare, we would like to invite you to the first in a series of public readings and discussions that will happen in different places in the city, on topics like: “minor territorial claims and gestures; inhabiting infrastructure space; conflict over spatial imagination; neoliberal urban politics and its counter-hegemonies; times (past, present, future) indivisive from each other and from space”.

At the first meeting we’ll read “The Rhizome” by Deleuze and Guattari, available here.

We’ll start with a challenging text: the aim is not so much to analyse its meaning but rather to use it as a tool to read the urban context away from binary and “arborescent” logics, to attempt a “rhizomatic approach”, open to a complexity beyond pre-existing categories.

With this scope, we invite you to bring to the meeting one or more objects that you will use to share something that you feel like an urgency regarding the life in the city of Bolzano.

The text is dense and long, we recommend you to read especially pages 12 to 14, which talk of the difference between mapping and tracing. This distinction will be useful for us to re-read the city, and especially the areas around the train station, making use of the objects gathered and through possible drifts.

The meeting will take place next Monday the 27th of April at the Cappuccini Garden, from 6pm to 8pm (“we should start always from the middle” say Deleuze and Guattari).
In case of rain we will gather in front of the theatre and move to another location.