| Target audience: | General public |
| Duration: | 3 hours |
| Location: | Sala Audiovisual |
The cycle begins with the encounter between the winner of the last Puchi Award and the writer Elisa Victoria, followed by the presentation of two international projects related to archives: one on the history of Italian fanzines and the other on the exhibitions that have shaped the LGTBIQ+ collective.
26 Apr / 5.30 pm
Marking the launch of 'Olmedo y Quito', winner of the 2022 Puchi Award, Elisa Victoria talks to author Daniela Delgado Viteri
Olmedo y Quito is an atypical and frank volume by Daniela Delgado Viteri that uses words and images to capture the invisible history of a vibrant neighbourhood in all its contradictions; of a city destroying itself through fire and corruption. Olmedo y Quito was going to be the digital archive of Walter Zambrano’s films and photographs, but of all that material, filmed “without order, solemnity or violence, in full view of everyone”, only thirty photos remain, all of fires in the neighbourhood. Even if no images remain, we do have the words and encounters between Daniela and Walter. Different types of words that form a narrative collage: accounts and reflections on those (real and imaginary) encounters, articles from the local newspaper, transcriptions from a radio station for insomniacs, telephone calls, fictitious conversations with ghosts, a letter never sent, screenshots from websites...
The Puchi Award is a publishing endeavour by La Casa Encendida and Fulgencio Pimentel. The next call for entries will be launched in autumn 2024 under a new biannual format with an increased cash prize of 10,000 euros. This longer interval between calls will allow for more attention to detail in the development of the selected projects. And from now on, the prize will be channelled towards the graphic field, focused on comics and illustrated albums.
The call for entries opens on 17 September and closes on 27 November 2024.
26 Apr / 6.30 pm
Presentation of 'Out of the Grid', by SPRINT Milano
Out of the Grid: Italian Zine 1978–2006 (Les Presses du Réel, 2024) is a critical selection of one hundred Italian fanzines printed between 1978 and 2006 that display a broad spectrum of social, political, aesthetic and technological changes in the use of language and communication strategies in the field of self-publishing. Edited by Dafne Boggeri and Sara Serighelli, it also offers an overview of Italian society and youth culture during a period in which mimeographs, photocopies and offset machines served to give visibility to new forms of musical, artistic and literary expression.
26 Apr / 7.30 pm
Presentation of 'Queer Exhibition Histories': Bas Hendrikx in conversation with Javier Pérez Iglesias
Queer Exhibition Histories (Valiz, 2023), edited by Bas Hendrikx, highlights the countless efforts, both large and small, of LGTBIQ+ artists and curators who have spent decades trying to document the collective’s vision and claims through exhibitions and related materials, many of which have fallen into oblivion. The reason for this is that, in these contexts, the notion of “public” is relative: the events were short-lived, held in domestic spaces or limited to a very small circle of people. These were not only artistic projects but discursive, activist, educational and community endeavours. The author, Bas Hendrikx, is a curator specialising in participatory projects, digital art and queer art history. He is currently the curator of participation and audience engagement at KANAL-Centre Pompidou (Brussels). On this occasion, he will present numerous audiovisual documents with a special focus on the European and Spanish scene, in dialogue with the activist-librarian Javier Pérez Iglesias.
