This weekend in Milan: SPRINT at Spazio Maiocchi, featuring a zine and works by Finnegan Shannon. 🧢 On the occasion of SPRINT24, four works from Finnegan Shannon’s series “Do You Want Us Here Or Not” will be installed in the courtyard of Spazio Maiocchi. Referencing the history of demonstrations where sitting became an act of protest, Shannon’s benches highlight the presence of unseen and unheard bodies, redefining space as a form of subtle resistance. In addition, a zine by Shannon reflecting on their project at La Pista 500 at Pinacoteca Agnelli will be available at the salon. Shannon notes: “The architecture of the test track feels so full of ideology around speed, movement, and stamina. I wrote the text for the benches thinking of myself, a slow and reluctant walker, navigating the space, someone who would likely choose to sit waiting for a friend rather than making the full loop.” SPRINT—Independent Publishers and Artists’ Books Salon November 22, 6–10 pm November 23–24, 11 am – 9 pm @finneganshann0n @sprintmilano @spaziomaiocchi In partnership with Pinacoteca Agnelli, Turin @pinacotecaagnelli
instagram.comThis weekend in Milan: SPRINT at Spazio Maiocchi, featuring a zine and works by Finnegan Shannon. 🧢 On the occasion of SPRINT24, four works from Finnegan Shannon’s series “Do You Want Us Here Or Not” will be installed in the courtyard of Spazio Maiocchi. Referencing the history of demonstrations where sitting became an act of protest, Shannon’s benches highlight the presence of unseen and unheard bodies, redefining space as a form of subtle resistance. In addition, a zine by Shannon reflecting on their project at La Pista 500 at Pinacoteca Agnelli will be available at the salon. Shannon notes: “The architecture of the test track feels so full of ideology around speed, movement, and stamina. I wrote the text for the benches thinking of myself, a slow and reluctant walker, navigating the space, someone who would likely choose to sit waiting for a friend rather than making the full loop.” SPRINT—Independent Publishers and Artists’ Books Salon November 22, 6–10 pm November 23–24, 11 am – 9 pm @finneganshann0n @sprintmilano @spaziomaiocchi In partnership with Pinacoteca Agnelli, Turin @pinacotecaagnelli
When you are examining a space, dwell a little and see what the room has to tell you. It may not be quite the same thing it told you when you first walked in and zoomed in on the stilettos in the middle of the floor.
Sam Gosling • Snoop: What Your Stuff Says About You
If we can go beyond our reflexive response, we may find there is something more beneath that resonates with us or helps our understanding. The new information might reinforce an idea, slightly alter it, or completely reverse it.
Rick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Still, we will have to stop and transition to something else at some point. How do we do that? Crossing over from the familiar to the unknown is not easy.
Pamela Kristan • Awakening in Time
you usually know, intuitively, whether remaining in a relationship or job would present the kind of challenges that will help you grow as a person (enlargement) or the kind that will cause your soul to shrivel with every passing week (diminishment). Choose uncomfortable enlargement over comfortable diminishment whenever you can.
Oliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks
Go live a life worth living where, in the end, you’ll be able to say, “I’m glad I did,” not “I wish I had.”