THE UNREADy by Alex Cecchetti

//////////////////// OUT NOW: THE UNREADy 12 – Pages 11 and 12

 

Hosted by: UNTITLED 45 - Contemporary Art Magazine, London

Contents:

- ((THE STORYTELLER)) "The Storyteller" took place from September 9th–13th 2007 on a sea journey from Istanbul to Athens, within "Floating Territories," a trans-biennial project by Germana Jaulin for the Evens Foundation. - THE GREENLAND METAPHOR - Alex Cecchetti / Christian Frosi Conversation recorded on September 13th in Greece, during a trip on public transport from the port of Zea Marina to Athens.
- THE UNREADy and its first temporary editorial team, has produced a forthcoming issue on the figure of the Storyteller, emerging from the homonymous text of Walter Benjamin. Contents appear throughout various publications and magazines with text by the temporary editorial team:   Texts: English

     

//////////////////// BACK ISSUES: THE UNREADy 07 – From pages 7 to 10

 

Hosted by: JANUS 23 - Magazine, Bruxelles

Contents:

- MEDIUM N°4 - João Ribas to Leo Strauss
Medium is a journal dedicated to dialogues with the dead by Étienne Chambaud. For each issue, one person is invited to write to another person who has passed away. Each text is a semi-interview – the dialogue a living person addresses to a dead person– whose answer remains pending, suspended. Medium is distributed as inserts within various magazines and journals.

Extro Alex Cecchetti - Texts: English

   

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Hosted by: CROSS n°7, Italy, September 2007

Contents:

« Interrompre Jacques Lacan » - Benoît Maire
On October 13th 1972, Jacques Lacan has been invited to a public congress at the UCL (Université Catholique de Louvain). Françoise Wolff filmed a part of the conference and a French transcription is available on internet. While examining these archive materials, I've been touched by the intervention of a young man, which vaguely seemed a situationist. After some researches I have been able to meet the one who, 35 years before, "interrupted" Jacques Lacan. His name is Jean-Louis Lippert and from more than twenty years he is building, out of any scheme, a solitary work of art in form of a Romance Cycle: «Mélopée d'Anatole Atlas, aède, athlète, anachorète» (Melopoeia of Anatole Atlas, poet, athlete, anachorite).

«Interrupting Jacques Lacan» has become then the title of an open project that develops a performance with students, videos and writings. In this occasion I present only two elements of the project that can be considered as a preview. The first is a partial transcription of the dialogue between Jaques Lacan and Anatole Atlas. The second is a short extract from an interview that I realized with Anatole Atlas in April 2007, in Brussels. The two passages are very partial, and as they have been edited according to my subjectivity, they affirm a certain point of view.

BM - Texts: Italian/French

   

//////////////////// THE UNREADy 1 - Pages 1 and 2 - First issue

 

Hosted by: Face A Face B - Posters - Le Pavillon 2006-2007, Palais de Tokyo, Paris

Contents:

- Editorial Alex Cecchetti - Notes from the Other Side - Olivia Plender in conversation with Sociologist Dr John Wallis, who is currently undertaking a study of The Modern Spiritualist Movement in the UK, a religion based on belief in the possibility of communication with the dead. It originated in the State of New York, USA, with the notorious Hydesville Rappings in 1848 but spread very shortly afterwards to the shores of Britain where it is still practiced by some people today. - Rot or Die - Two artists: Alex Cecchetti interviews Diego Perrone.

Texts: English/French

 

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THE UNREADy is an independent magazine with no official distribution. On the contrary, as a parasite, it lives in others' spaces and it uses as a distribution channel the pages of other magazines, art catalogues, books and all kind of press willing to host it. THE UNREADy has no fixed dates. The mechanism of intrusion and hosting of other "containers" is the only factor that determines the publishing of the magazine. From this point, the publishing intervals between one article and the next one are unpredictable. The title of the magazine is inspired by Ethelred II (Aethelred II dc. 968 - 1016), King of England. The majority of his reign was marked by a defensive war against Viking invaders. Considering the way he faced the Viking onslaught, and all the unpopular and useless measures he took against them, his contemporaries gave him the nickname "Unræd" meaning "without counsel", "poorly counseled" or "indecisive". This could also be interpreted as a pun on his name, Æþelræd, which may be understood to mean "noble counsel" in Old English. Later, popular Etymology associated the name Aethelred, "Unread", to the modern Unready, and the king is known as "the Unready" nowadays. Concerning the format, our pages will be printed upside down with respect to the hosting magazine pages. The contents are established in agreement with those invited to collaborate and are based only on written texts.

Chief Editor: Alex Cecchetti
Editorial Coordination: Francesca di Nardo, Alix Dionot-Morani

 

THE UNREADy receives the kind support of the MAIRIE DE PARIS

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Milan-born Cecchetti is an artist and editor in chief of THE UNREADy magazine. His work has a narrative quality and strives to verify and reinterpret reality. It has most recently been featured as part of the ‘Les Artistes du Pavillon’ exhibition at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2007); “San Francesco’s Trilogy“, at the Isabella Bortolozzi Galerie, Berlin (2007) and “Short: as long as it takes: the big crossing”, the 35th International Film festival Rotterdam (IFFR), Rotterdam, The Netherlands.



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