june 21-24 Rome festival of comics drawn and printed art

It's like this: You come home from CRACK! and you're happy. A little bit like you're still on CRACK! mentally. This happiness lasts for a few weeks sometimes. It's not that you want to go back but more like you never really left the Forte. The rest of the year you do what you can to make the rest of the world a better place. Around December usually, you start thinking about going back. A feeling that gets more intense as June gets closer. You start to plan for the next one, try to think of a bigger, better contribution. You want to return to the family, return home. CRACK! is the real world, the rest is just inbetween.

Mattias Elftorp
The destructive character sees nothing permanent. But for this very reason he sees ways everywhere. Where others encounter walls or mountains, there, too, he sees a way. But because he sees a way everywhere, he has to clear things from it everywhere. Not always by brute force; sometimes by the most refined. Because he sees ways everywhere, he always stands at a crossroads.
Walter Benjamin

POPPER (ITA)

Outdoor_sabato 22 giugno

rudimental pop

 Davide e Walter si conoscono nel 2003 lavorando come comparse all'opera di Mozart "Don Giovanni". Iniziano in quegli anni la stesura di canzoni e un'intensa attività di escursionismo forsennato nella zona dell'Alitalia montana e abbandonata. Le avventure si rivelano fondamentali per la raccolta di materiale audiovisivo che verrà utilizzato per il montaggio di videoclip musicali. Davide e Walter si riprendono seminudi conciati come animali selvatici mentre intervengono site-specificatamente con tecnologie rudimentali, telecamerine, bastoni, bottiglie di vino. Attualmente il progetto si concentra sull'aspetto performativo dei loro brani

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