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✧What is it?
✧Why make it?
✧Workflow
✧Timetable
✧Rapid prototypes (scratches)
✧Relation to previous practice

Second year

obsessive catalogue of madness

What is it?
Publication based on our(me+Lorenzo)'s online obsessive observations. Digging into online platform rabbitholes (mostly instagram and youtube).

The aesthetic of the aesthetic.

Spiritual colonisation and the online trends aesthetic politization. Brat summer, demure the importance of the format.
Cosplaying poorness.
Framing conservative spirituality as progressive ancient wisdom, being packaged as freeminded.

concerning the suffixes i.e. core, punk, esque
absurdity of the rapid speed of conceptualization of multiple aesthetics, freedom to just make anything and that 'freedom' has influence on daily life.

example: crustfund baby's: (majorably) white people getting into spirituality based on preconceptions that are presented online without the context of the inspiration.

example: new tradwife translated from american english to italian culture -> conservative catholicism

examples cryptobro culture etc

The Theory of the Leisure Class by Veblen, wealthy people create content and leisure.

Why make it?

for cultural observation, because we are insane

Workflow
This is a side project, this means we will work on this on our free time, we both are really passionate about these themes

Timetable
the only deadline we decided on is November 4th (public moment), it would be nice to present to the public a draft, even a really unfinished version of our little research. It might change into November 1st.

Rapid prototypes (scratches)

is our first meeting pad a prototype?
is our wiki a prototype?

Relation to previous practice
Doomscrolling and cynical thoughts

ritualistic mediterranean map

What is it?
An interactive ritualistic map project centered around mediterranean cultures, folklore and rituals, with the mediterranean sea as a symbol of history, magic and death.

Why make it?

To give a voice to struggling and disappearing communities and traditions, while bridging the past and present societies. The project needs to avoid romanticisation of the past, instead letting people understand the importance of preservation of ancient cultures, as a tool to understand the present struggles better.

By capturing sounds, visuals, interviews, the goal of the project is safeguard the intangible and fragile heritage of mediterranean cultures, and draw attention to those traditions that are still entwined in contemporary lives.

Workflow and Timetable

1 month
☼ get inspired by the land, people, languages and dialects of the mediterranean area
☼ find threads
☼ talk with multiple organisations that engage in the safeguarding of people and of heritages, exploring how ancient traditions are translated contemporary in art, design, music, how traditions are being shaped by migration, and how the mediterranean matter is being dealed with considering the deaths at sea
☼ create a draft of the website where the map will be stored

2 month
☼ research about events, meetings, workshops, lessons concerning the theme
☼ talk with present anthropologist and scholars that are analysing the matter
☼ contact people from Coro a Coro, Isabella, other singers and artists that work in the field
☼ getting some interviews online and offline, even from people, or almost all from people that migrated from the mediterranean area
☼ shape the website-archive fully

3 month
☼ finish the website, to make it available to the public
☼ contact venues or editors that could be interested in helping with making a independent publishing printed version of the project (studio Azzurro Milan)
☼ making drafts of the printed version
☼ collect feedback from the online version to improve the offline version
☼ let the archive be open to implement other addition from other people online

Rapid prototypes (scratches)

Relation to previous practice

My bachelor thesis was about the aesthetic of the Adriatic landscape, fractals, folklore and magic. So, I would like to continue my research