Programme

The aim of the course is the exploration and re-appropriation of the city through the arts. It will take place entirely in the urban space using walks, performative actions, installations. The Course teaches us to get lost, to recognize the arts of discovery, of the encounter with the Other. It proposes walking as a research method, with the intent to reactivate in the students and in the inhabitants their innate capacity for creative transformation of the space in which they live, to remind them that they have a body and the desires with which they can modify it.
In the first days of the course there will be an introductory phase on the relationship between arts and cities, between arts and nomadism, on the practices conducted by Francesco Careri together with Stalker in Rome in the last twenty years. Then the peripatetic phase will begin, through long, aimless walks, with the intention of consciously get lost in the city. At this stage there will be some rules to follow: we don’t walk on sidewalks or asphalt; we can never go back; we don’t believes in private property; but above all: who waste time gain space. We will try to stay behind the built city, along the margins and borders, to reconstruct a unitary thread to the fragments of separate cities in which we live. But we will proceed in a cross-eyed way, towards a goal and towards what diverts it from the goal, disposing itself to road accidents, to the possibility of stumbling and of making a mistake. We will try to take the city by surprise, indirectly, sideways, playful, non-functional, to stumble into unexplored territories where new questions arise. Students will be asked to try to look at reality "with their heads under their legs", to overturn their points of view, to produce places through their actions, to transform their own living spaces with material and immaterial interventions, to find new ways to tell them.

Core Documentation

a lot of information about the contents and results of courses in recent years can be found in the blog: http://articiviche.blogspot.com/

basic Bibliography:

- FRANCESCO CARERI, WALKSCAPES. EL ANDAR COMO PRÀCTICA ESTÉTICA / WALKING AS AN AESTHETIC PRACTICE, EDITORIAL GUSTAVO GILI, BARCELLONA 2002, TRAD IT. WALKSCAPES. IL CAMMINARE COME PRATICA ESTETICA, EINAUDI, TORINO 2006.
- BRUCE CHATWIN, THE SONGLINES (1987), TRAD. IT. LE VIE DEI CANTI, ADELPHI, MILANO, 1988

See also:
- FRANCESCO CARERI, LORENZO ROMITO, CAMPUS ROM, ALTRIMEDIA EDIZIONI, MATERA 2017
- ANNA DETHERIDGE, SCULTORI DELLA SPERANZA. L'ARTE NEL CONTESTO DELLA GLOBALIZZAZIONE, EINAUDI 2012
- AA.VV., INTERNAZIONALE SITUAZIONISTA 1958-69, NAUTILUS/STAMPATRE, TORINO, 1994
- FRANCESCO CARERI, CONSTANT / NEW BABYLON, UNA CITTÀ NOMADE, TESTO & IMMAGINE, TORINO, 2001
- FRANCO LA CECLA., PERDERSI, L'UOMO SENZA AMBIENTE, LATERZA, BARI, 1988
- PETER LANG, A CURA DI., SUBURBAN DISCIPLINE, PRINCETON ARCHITECTURAL PRESS, NEW YORK, 1997
- ROSALIND KRAUSS, PASSAGES IN MODERN SCULPTURE, MIT PRESS, 1981, TR. IT. PASSAGGI, BRUNO MONDADORI, MILANO, 1998

Type of delivery of the course

For fifteen years the course has been entirely peripatetic, organized in walks of urban exploration, with the intent to get lost consciously in the city, through some rules: you do not walk on the sidewalks or in the asphalt; you can never go back; those who lose time gain space. The course is a closed number course for 25 students selected on the basis of a letter of motivation sent to the teacher by e-mail. In the case of an extension of the health emergency by COVID-19 all the provisions that regulate the way in which teaching activities and student evaluation are carried out will be implemented. In particular, the following modalities will be applied: distance lessons and possible out-of-hours excursions in small groups with physical distance and mask. more info on http://articiviche.blogspot.com/

Attendance

attendance at least 75% of the lessons is required

Type of evaluation

In the last 15 years the course has ended with an examination through the realization of a work. The modalities will be decided at the end according to the type of spaces crossed and the experience lived. Actions will be organized in order to re-territorialization of knowledge through exhibitions, convivial moments, presentation of the works. The final exam is a verification of common experience and individual learning during the course. The quality of participation in the course and the walks, the interventions and actions of territorial transformation, the quality of post-production materials, the originality and coherence of the work of aesthetic synthesis will be evaluated. In the case of an extension of the health emergency by COVID-19 all the provisions that regulate the way in which the didactic activities and the students' evaluation will be carried out will be implemented. In particular, the following procedures will be applied: even in the case of distance learning, given the type of examination that has always included a practical phase in real space, the student is invited to produce experiences and practices outside, in the heart of the city, which will then be recounted in an orlal form. If it will be possible there will be a final walk before the oral exam, and always if it will be possible and after hearing the departmental organs, the moment of the communication of the grades will be done after the exam, in the presence, outdoors in a space of the Slaughterhouse, to also have a final exchange on the results of the course.