Lateral thinking, as opposed to vertical thin­king, is rooted in the erotic, in the ani­ma­lis­tic; it is a fan­tas­tical, uto­pian, even irra­tional thinking that does not follow an ob­vious train of thought. It challen­ges routine, pattern, norm, and attempts to present a sym­bolic resis­tance in various ways. It is playful, some­times strange and surreal, and follows prin­ciples such as mis­take/ acci­dent/ humour: “You can park any­where you like, as long as you like, as long as you leave your head­lights full on.” At first, this pro­po­sition per­forms effi­ciency, in the end, though, it is utter­ly idle. In this idle­ness, none­the­less, there is hidden the inten­tion of shif­ting, something.

Lateral Roma is an art space located in Rome foun­ded by Geraldine Tedder and Mathias Ringgenberg, and dedi­cated to a variety of artistic formats.

It was born out of the desire for a space that would allow us to con­nect to our cur­rent location. In the pre­sent diffi­cult situ­ation, we consider it all the more urgent to continue working in physical spaces as much as pos­sible, to resist a simple shift of con­tent into the digital realm, to band together with others who, from what we can tell from talks with people prac­ti­sing here, are seeking to engage with similar topics.