– The Variational Status
The Variational Status
book
2017
The Variational Status is an investigation into the status of documents, into how stories are traversed by different social and political currents, and into the connections between solitary, inarticulate acts of resistance and outdated modes of transmission. In these overlooked and disregarded stories, a pre-political tension emerges through the study of unofficial documents, narrative variations, legends, folk traditions, and traces, rather than through historiographical constructions.
Three figures serve as case studies: the disappearance of mass murderer Simone Pianetti, the amnesia of anarchist Augusto Masetti, and the mysterious origins of the Colombian puppet character el espiritado.
Whether through puppet shows, cantastorie, detective novels, fogli volanti or anarchist pamphlets, The Variational Status presents these stories as intrinsically inseparable from their modes of transmission.
The book was published on the occasion of the project The Variational Status, commissioned and presented by ar/ge kunst (Bolzano), Centrale Fies (Dro) and FRAC Champagne-Ardenne (Reims).
Texts: Andrea Cavalletti, Andrea Morbio, Riccardo Giacconi, Emanuele Guidi, Antoine Marchand, Frans-Willem Korsten
Edited by Riccardo Giacconi, Emanuele Guidi
Design by Bianca Fabbri
Published by Humboldt Books
16,5 x 22 cm | 80 pages, color | Paperback
English, Italian, German, French
ISBN 978-88-99385-25-5
Excerpts:
– The Variational Status. Notes around the assassin Simone Pianetti (1858 - ?)
