The inaugural winner of the Publishing Performance residency and book award uses sculpture, collage and reappropriation to capture the synaesthesia of a rural Indian working-class spectacle. Indian artist Abhishek Khedekar's experimental docu-fiction follows a 100-person nomadic troupe of Dalit 'families' performing Tamasha: a travelling form of performance combining dance, music, and visual art dating back to the 1800s. As post-independence India moved away from rural dance and song forms, Tamasha became stigmatised, polarised and relegated in

Are they rocks or clouds? is a territorial investigation in the Dolomites that aims, through the interaction between observation, memory and science, to the construction of a knowledge of hydrogeological risk. The concepts put into play are those of contamination, overlayering and the spatial map. Moving away from a natural fascination for the mountains, the project clearly observes the territory, looking for the possibility of measuring the risk for the inhabitants of the places w

The drawings of the book L'Architettura degli Alberi by Cesare Leonardi and Franca Stagi represent an unsurpassed tool for the design of green. Fruit of a study lasted over twenty years, the book contains the treatment of 212 arboreal species, drawn in scale 1:100, with and without foliage, accompanied by the diagrams of the projections of shadows during the hours of the day and during the seasons, tables of seasonal colour variation of the foliage a

The simplicity of collage, together with its strong graphic presence, lent the medium a sense of revolutionary possibility when it was first adopted by avant-garde artists almost 100 years ago. During the twentieth century collage gradually became identified with such artistic practices as Cubism, Dada and Surrealism, and today it has gained new momentum as an energetic art form with a strong political dimension. This stunning book explores the role of collage in contemporary visual cul

Else was born in 2010 along with a book: Radici. A book created together with a group of foreign people recently arrived in Italy. A book that was an opportunity to share personal and collective stories but also to create an object together by learning a printing technique, screen printing, and the basic rules for making a book. The first thing that Fausta and Simone from Orecchio Acerbo, as founder of the group, invited us to