neon>campobase_via Zanardi 2/5, Bologna (Italy)

Bologna, 26th Yanuary 2008, h. 6:00 p.m.

presentation of the new book > a publishing project of plug_in

Gaia Cianfanelli, Caterina Iaquinta
dissertare/disertare | dissertating/deserting

interviews by:
gino gianuizzi
emanuele piccardo/plug_in
caterina iaquinta
cultural association, curators and artists

dissertating/deserting, two words, a "text-manifesto", a project, a networking operation, an exhibition and at the same time an experience and review of the Italian art-cultural scene. How have all these aspects connected and developed in sequence? How could an identity emerge from all this? On July 7, 2006, over 50 artists and 22 curators and cultural associations crowded the rooms of the Colonna Castle in Genazzano (Rome), it was the final phase of a project that had been developed over the two previous years. A text-catalogue including the multiplicity of voices of the contributors: from dissertating/deserting, the text-manifesto sent as an invitation to participate, to the replies and proposals submitted by the cultural associations and curators that accepted it. The book presents critical texts by Jo-Anna Isaak, Angelandreina Rorro, Carla Subrizi, Antonio Tursi, Gaia Cianfanelli, Caterina Iaquinta as well as interviews with Martina Corgnati, Emanuela De Cecco, Lisa Parola/a.titolo, Laura Barreca, Gianni Romano, Angelo Bianco made during the elaboration phase; the cultural operators’ and artists’ biographical notes and a bibliography complete the book. The book redefines the process of elaboration and development of a curatorial project so that its work method becomes at the same time tool and subject of the research.


Gaia Cianfanelli (Albano, Rome, 1980)
attended the European School of Economics in Rome where she obtained a degree in Art and Heritage Management. Since 2005 she has been curator of the “TEVERETERNO” project now at its third year of development. She founded the START cultural association.

Caterina Iaquinta (Rome, 1978)
A Phd in Art Science and History, she attended Università La Sapienza in Rome. She authored the project In-Between: Visual Crossings, produced for the 2005 edition of the White Night in Rome. Since 2006 she has managed the activities of the Baruchello Foundation. Since 2005 she has been a member of the START cultural association.

plug_in edition it was founded in February ' 07,
the themes of our publications are Contemporary art,
Architecture, Photography

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