Writing

Writing across essays, poetry, experimental texts, and fragments, tracing gestures, shifts in time, and forms taking shape.

Christian Patracchini Christian Patracchini

Felt - The Aesthetics of Grey

This reflection comes from little everyday experiences. I recently came across a quote by the French painter Dominique Ingres: “Better grey than garishness.”

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A Natural Tendency

some minds take pleasure in counterpoints
absently answering some deep call
they move in a hushed, ice-clear trance

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Shadow Man

One day I noticed that what I was writing concerned him more and more and though in an indirect manner, it seems to have no other purpose but to reflect him.

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Seven Kinds of Silences

Church of San Marco. Sunday 11th August 04.40pm Behind – A cane tapping slowly on the floor; coming forward…heavy breathing

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Tystnaden

Tystnaden is a trilogy of works: a text, a performance and a sound piece that takes Ingmar Bergman’s Silence as its starting point. The film centers around miscommunications

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On Potential, Decay, and Abjection

The infamous scene of maggot-ridden meat in Sergei Eisenstein’s Battleship Potemkin (1925) functions as both material document and political metaphor.

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Skin, Ground and Beckett

Skin and ground are both important parts of our perceptions, they both imply contradictory physical, psychological and emotional states

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Variations

Almost a being without boundaries, spared and more purely inner, very strangely tender and illuminating itself up to the edge, is such a thing known to us?

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