LA CREAZIONE CONTINUA A CREARE IL SUO PERDUTO

by Elisa Giuliano
in collaboration with Almanac Inn

For the 2024 exhibition programme, the Turin-based non-profit space Almanac Inn invited curator and playwright Elisa Giuliano to create an exhibition to reflect on the role of images, documents and artefacts in the creation of social worlds. Starting from research work carried out in collaboration with the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography of the University of Turin, the Associazione Figli della Miniera di Macugnaga, and the Gruppo Spontaneo di Magliano Alfieri, Elisa Giuliano will develop an exhibition and a performance oriented towards the analysis of borders in the Piedmontese territory: the border between cultures, the border between sacred and profane, the border between rationality and irrationality.
During her residency period at the Lavanderia a Vapore, Elisa will work with artist Gianfranco Colla on the realisation of a play inspired by Il mondo in rivista (1926) by Mario Bertola, one of the works from the psychiatric hospital in Collegno conserved in the Art Brut collection of the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography of the University of Turin. The show will be presented at the Almanac Inn in June 2024.

Elisa Giuliano is a curator, researcher and theatre director. She currently lectures at the MA Curatorial Studies at ZHdK Zurich. In 2022 she co-curated with Anselm Franke, Denise Ryner, Claire Tancons and Zairong Xiang the exhibition Ceremony (Burial of an Undead World) at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW) in Berlin. In 2020, she was a fellow at Ocean Space – TBA-21 Academy in Venice and in 2018 at Het Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam. In 2019, Giuliano was part of the artistic team of the exhibition projects I-DEA and Blind Sensorium at Matera European Capital of Culture 2019. Her writings have appeared in publications such as NERO, Dirty Furniture, MUdec United and Arts of the Working Class.