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Mould. Il progetto editoriale generatore di idee
No full textL'articolo introduce e descrive il progetto editoriale Mould, iniziato da Alessio Cancellieri e Jonathan Pierini nel 2014, con particolare riferimento ai numeri 1 e 2 rispettivamente co-curati da Cancellieri e Pierini con Markus Miessen e Joan Fontcuberta
Hotel House. Etnografia di un condominio multietnico
No full textL’Hotel House è un enorme condominio di architettura razionalista composto da 480 appartamenti, situato nella parte meridionale della cittadina di Porto Recanati, nel Sud delle Marche.
Luogo peculiare per la sua conformazione urbanistica, nettamente separato dal resto della città, lo è altrettanto per la sua demografia: progettato alla fine degli anni Sessanta per il soggiorno di italiani vacanzieri di ceto medio, a partire dagli anni Novanta si è trasformato in luogo di concentrazione di una popolazione di lavoratori immigrati provenienti da oltre quaranta Paesi.
Frutto di una prolungata ricerca etnografica, il lavoro di Cancellieri ci porta dritto nel cuore dell’Hotel House: mostrandoci come si vive e come si esperisce quotidianamente la differenza, come si lotta per “farsi spazio”, come ci si mobilita per opporsi al doppio processo di ghettizzazione e stigmatizzazione, Hotel House costituisce una ricchissima fonte di dati e riflessioni.
Se infatti il caso di Porto Recanati è certamente singolare, se non unico nel nostro Paese, esso è al tempo stesso profondamente sintomatico e significativo delle nuove configurazioni della spazialità contemporanea e delle sue sfide
Mould 2: (Photo) Writing Degree Zero
No full textMould is a platform for transdisciplinary investigation, which aims to interpret the complexity of contemporary culture by stimulating a dialogue between its multiple forms and contaminations. We believe that the mould, embracing the notions of imprint and tracing, conveys our view of cultural press: a place to record the existing, make it circulate, generate new ideas. Mould is a project by Alessio Cancellieri and Jonathan Pierini, published by Mould Press. A. C
Chapter The Tools of War in the Cancellieri Vendetta
No full textThe Cancellieri vendetta, a conflict between members of the Cancellieri clan, took place in the 13th century, perhaps in the year 1300. In terms of narrative sources, we can identify two distinct groups of records: the Florentine tradition and the Pistoia chronicle. The vendetta determined the history of both Pistoia and the Tuscan region, as the antagonisms among the Pistoiain elite caused similar factional strife in Florence as well when the leaders of the two Cancellieri factions moved to the nearby city. The so-called ‘White’ Cancellieri were linked with the Florentine White Guelphs; the other party were linked with the Florentine Black Guelphs. The leaders of the Florentine factions – the Donati (Blacks) and the Cerchi (Whites) – were opponents in everyday politics. The impulse of the Cancellieri clan members had a huge effect on the situation leading to violent factional wars in Florence that ended in 1308. In my study, I analyse the narrative sources of this period, both from Pistoia and from Florence, and examine the tools used in the fights: the ‘tangible’ weapons that were mentioned by the anonymous writer from Pistoia and the ‘narrative’ tools of the Florentine tradition
How Status Affects the Unconventionality of Opera Repertoires: Conflicting Criteria for Status Distinction, Aesthetic Conventionality and Repertoire Nonconformity in Italian Opera
No full textIn this paper, we examine how status affects cultural organizations’ willingness to challenge the dominant logic of status distinction in their field by raising the unconventionality of their repertoires. We hypothesize that opportunities for middle status organizations to improve their status position serve as strong incentives to violate dominant status-based expectations and raise the unconventionality of their repertoires. We also predict that the risks of status loss and commercial failure that stem from similar actions are major constraints upon the willingness of high and low status organizations to program unconventional operas. Concealing unconventional repertoires under conventional forms or visual appearances (aesthetic conventionality), however, increases their freedom by promoting the legitimacy of their offerings, thereby protecting their position in the status hierarchy from the social penalties that arise from repertoire unconventionality. A statistical analysis of Italian opera house repertoires from 2004 to 2011 strongly supports these hypotheses.This article examines how status affects the willingness of cultural organizations to challenge the dominant logic of status distinction in their field by raising the unconventionality of their repertoires. The author hypothesizes that opportunities for middle-status organizations to improve their status position serve as strong incentives to violate dominant status-based expectations and raise the unconventionality of their repertoires. The author also hypothesizes that the risks of status loss and commercial failure that stem from similar actions are major constraints on the willingness of high-and low-status organizations to program unconventional operas. Concealing unconventional repertoires under conventional forms or visual appearances (aesthetic conventionality), however, increases their freedom by promoting the legitimacy of their offerings, thereby protecting their position in the status hierarchy from the social penalties that arise from repertoire unconven-tionality. A statistical analysis of the repertoires of Italian opera houses from 2004 to 2011 strongly supports these hypotheses
Mould 1: Cultures of Assembly
No full textMould is a platform for transdisciplinary investigation, which aims to interpret the complexity of contemporary culture by stimulating a dialogue between its multiple forms and contaminations. We believe that the mould, embracing the notions of imprint and tracing, conveys our view of cultural press: a place to record the existing, make it circulate, generate new ideas. Mould is a project by Alessio Cancellieri and Jonathan Pierini, published by Mould Press. A. C
Strategic Practices and Italian Opera Houses’ Performance: the Innovation Dilemma
No full textIn this article it is explored the effect of innovation on Italian opera houses’
performance. Innovation is measured as the number of new opera productions staged
by a theatre (i.e., “new” in terms of set designs, costumes and stage directions not
previously used by any other opera house). Opera houses’ performance is measured as
occupancy rate and ability to attract private grants. Our sample includes two Italian
operatic institutions: 1) lyric and symphonic foundations, and 2) teatri di tradizione.
Data collected from 2007 to 2009 show that among the sampled institutions, only the
lyric and symphonic foundations are able to increase their occupancy rate from new
opera productions. Moreover results highlight that the ability of opera houses to collect
private grants is positively affected by the number of new opera productions, meaning
that innovation plays a key role in strengthening opera houses’ fundraising
capabilities. This is particularly important in the Italian opera scenario where the
severe consequences of the economic crisis and decreased public funding to opera
houses have sharpened competition for scarce financial resources
Tra memoria dell’antico e identità culturale. Tempi e protagonisti della scoperta dei Monti Lepini
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