
KAMERA Cahier N° 4. Maria Iorio and Raphaël Cuomo
- Publisher
- AVARIE / Labor Neunzehn
- Year
- 2021
- Specifications
- Soft cover with omega staple binding
21 x 14.5 cm
24 pages
Colour plates
Papers Fedrigoni Sirio Rough Pearl 210 and Arena White Rough 120
Typeface Magister by Aldo Novarese, 1966
Cover letterpress by Archivio Tipografico, Turin
Digital and letterpress print by Moglia
75 numbered copies, each with a postcard
Stills and notes by Maria Iorio and Raphaël Cuomo
Curated, edited and designed by Giuliana Prucca and Valentina Besegher Scotti
A special edition issue curated, designed and published by AVARIE, Paris, and Labor Neunzehn, Berlin. It accompanies the KAMERA programme while remaining an independent object to collect. The central idea that directs the montage of these small volumes is the interplay between addition and subtraction: a missing image from the projection, or an unreleased second taken from an artist's work, expanded over twenty-four pages, with a piece removed directly from the show enclosed in every copy. The editing sets up a dialogue between frames and performed writings drawn from texts, scripts, storyboards and notes, so that the exhibition is extended into a physical space.
KAMERA is a programme of experimental moving images and printed matter held in a former GDR building in Berlin. Each event shows a retrospective of one artist over four days, alongside a small display of their publications or works on paper, and sets out to foster a critical dialogue between different formats.
Maria Iorio and Raphaël Cuomo investigate the conditions under which dominant historical narratives are produced and can be challenged. Their hybrid cinematic forms bring out unheard voices, disregarded collective experiences and resistant subjectivities; new knowledge comes to light, shared by way of a performative practice, translation processes and the aesthetic and political dimensions of listening.
For this issue they presented Undead Voices, an ongoing installation whose starting point is a Super 8 amateur reel, Donne emergete!, made in 1975 by Isabella Bruno and recently rediscovered, damaged beyond repair by archival criteria. Reviewing its devastated chemical emulsions, the work exposes the effects of the marginalisation of minor cinemas.