Twenty-first Giornata del contemporaneo AMACI at Museion

The workshop will include an introduction to the American poet’s work, followed by collective reading exercises and activities. Lax’s words will become sounds that stimulate the creation of performative actions. The voices and bodies of the participants and the sounds they produce – including found sounds from the surrounding context – will be formed into a shared soundscape, enhanced by portable recording and playback devices that weave together memories and voicescapes.

This experience will be accompanied by the music of Renato Grieco, whose electroacoustic sounds generate minimal, diffuse textures that interact with words, movements, objects, and bodies to amplify their resonance.

An exhibition dedicated to art editions, especially those of Francesco Conz, one of the key figures in the promotion and artistic production of international neo-avant-gardes in Italy. Curated by Frida Carazzato with the collaboration of the Fondazione Bonotto and Patrizio Peterlini’s curatorial advice, the exhibition uses the museum collection to explore the cultural legacy and artistic vision of Francesco Conz. This important figure, who worked with Fluxus, Visual Poetry and Concrete Poetry artists, played a decisive role in disseminating these artistic practices in Italy and abroad.

Enrico Malatesta is a percussionist active in experimental fields that span music, performance, and sound-territory exploration. His art explores the relationships between sound, space, and movement with a particular focus on listening modes, instrument affordances, and polyrhythm, i.e. the definition of multiple information through an ecological and sustainable approach to percussion. Since 2007, Enrico Malatesta has presented his work on tour throughout Europe, Brazil, South Korea, Japan, the United Kingdom, North America, and Russia. This has included taking part in festivals and special events at venues like Pirelli HangarBicocca - Milan, Berghain - Berlin, MAM - Rio de Janeiro, Biennale di Venezia - Venice, Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain – Paris.

Renato Grieco is a composer who operates primarily in the fields of musique concrète and radio-art. Since 2013, he has performed throughout Europe, both in his soloist project (under the pseudonym kNN) and in numerous collaborations as a performer, interpreter, and sound dramatist for dance productions. He has co-curated the La Digestion – musica ascoltata raramente festival. He also works as a freelance location recordist and sound engineer at the KU studio (Naples). Since 2021, he has taught the Electroacoustic Technologies History and Criticism course at the Nicola Sala Conservatory in Benevento.

Robert Lax (Olean, 30 November 1915 - New York, 26 September 2000) was an American poet and writer. Known primarily for his friendship and association with the Trappist monk and author Thomas Merton, Robert Lax has in recent years finally gained a growing reputation as an influential writer and inspirational figure in his own right. The impact of Lax’s work on other poets had long been known in avant-garde circles, but his innovative style and quiet wisdom never received the attention they deserved, partly due to his humble, reclusive life, much of which was spent on Patmos, a remote Greek island in the Aegean Sea.