3 December 2020, Giulia Crispiani, Basile Dinbergs, Meloe Gennai, Jahān Khājavi, PRICE, Geraldine Tedder
The first event at Lateral Roma and the first in the series (Thursday) Here's Why I Did Not Go To Work Today took the form of an exchange of works by people we met here in Rome: Giulia Crispiani, Meloe Gennai and Jahān Khājavi gave a reading, Basile Dinbergs presented a sound piece. Our contributions, Geraldine Tedder and PRICE, revolved around thoughts we had for founding Lateral Roma. This first encounter took place in PRICE’s studio, which is located in the garden of the Istituto Svizzero di Roma – a space that has been granted to us and we wanted to understand and transform into a kind of “fungo” for the evening.
Part 1
Part 2
Basile Dinbergs
00:03:33–00:17:29
PRICE
00:00:50–00:07:13
Giulia Crispiani
00:25:45–00:39:57
Jahān Khājavi
00:09:00–00:22:42
Geraldine Tedder
00:45:04–00:55:35
PRICE
01:04:19–01:12:50
Meloe Gennai
01:22:08–01:49:45
Giulia Crispiani is a writer and visual artist based in Rome, where she is an editor for NERO Editions and Teatro di Roma. Her favorite media for the written format are interviews, love letters and manifestoes.
Basile Dinbergs is a Geneva based artist. In long-term, ever-changing projects, he explores alternative economies and attempts to think of affect, friendship and collectivity as part of the process of production. He works with sound, performance, text and object.
Meloe Gennai is a poet, performer and legalist. Meloe published their first book of poems Temps, intempéries, tempérament in 2017 and they are currently working on their first novel We don’t cry no more on deconstructing ideologies in the western psyche, healing and ancestral guidance. Meloe will read from a series of sexual shapes, expressions and femmex flow poetry.
Jahān Khājavi composes and performs “wildly amusing & explicit queer poetry” (Vogue). Recent poems can be found or are forthcoming in 14poems, Split Lip, Bæst, Dreampop, & the Foglifter anthology Home Is Where You Queer Your Heart. Khājavi is also currently collaborating with Brandon Menke on a series of queer cowboy poems, some of which appear in Columbia Journal & Denver Quarterly.
Thanks to Camille Aleña.
3 December 2020, Giulia Crispiani, Basile Dinbergs, Meloe Gennai, Jahān Khājavi, PRICE, Geraldine Tedder
Part 1
Basile Dinbergs
00:03:33–00:17:29
Giulia Crispiani
00:25:45–00:39:57
Geraldine Tedder
00:45:04–00:55:35
PRICE
01:04:19–01:12:50
Meloe Gennai
01:22:08–01:49:45
Part 2
PRICE
00:00:50–00:07:13
Jahān Khājavi
00:09:00–00:22:42
The first event at Lateral Roma and the first in the series (Thursday) Here's Why I Did Not Go To Work Today took the form of an exchange of works by people we met here in Rome: Giulia Crispiani, Meloe Gennai and Jahān Khājavi gave a reading, Basile Dinbergs presented a sound piece. Our contributions, Geraldine Tedder and PRICE, revolved around thoughts we had for founding Lateral Roma. This first encounter took place in PRICE’s studio, which is located in the garden of the Istituto Svizzero di Roma – a space that has been granted to us and we wanted to understand and transform into a kind of “fungo” for the evening.
Giulia Crispiani is a writer and visual artist based in Rome, where she is an editor for NERO Editions and Teatro di Roma. Her favorite media for the written format are interviews, love letters and manifestoes.
Basile Dinbergs is a Geneva based artist. In long-term, ever-changing projects, he explores alternative economies and attempts to think of affect, friendship and collectivity as part of the process of production. He works with sound, performance, text and object.
Meloe Gennai is a poet, performer and legalist. Meloe published their first book of poems Temps, intempéries, tempérament in 2017 and they are currently working on their first novel We don’t cry no more on deconstructing ideologies in the western psyche, healing and ancestral guidance. Meloe will read from a series of sexual shapes, expressions and femmex flow poetry.
Jahān Khājavi composes and performs “wildly amusing & explicit queer poetry” (Vogue). Recent poems can be found or are forthcoming in 14poems, Split Lip, Bæst, Dreampop, & the Foglifter anthology Home Is Where You Queer Your Heart. Khājavi is also currently collaborating with Brandon Menke on a series of queer cowboy poems, some of which appear in Columbia Journal & Denver Quarterly.
Thanks to Camille Aleña