Giulia Crispiani
Giulia Crispiani is an editor, translator, writer, and visual artist based in Rome. She collaborates with Nero Editions, bruno, Dutch Art Institute, and teaches at NABA Rome. Her work has been presented in numerous institutions and non-profit spaces, including: Istituto Svizzero, Rome; Bulegoa, Bilbao; MAXXI Rome and MAXXI L’Aquila; Roma Europa Festival; Center for Book Arts, New York; Almanac Inn, Turin; Centrale Fies, Dro; Short Theatre, Rome; MACRO, Rome; Quadriennale di Roma 2020; Il Colorificio, Milan; and FramerFramed, Amsterdam. She is the author of Incontri in luoghi straordinari / Meetings at remarkable places (Nero Editions, 2020), What if Every Farewell Would Be Followed by a Love Letter (Union Editions, 2020), What if I can’t say goodbye (Union Editions, 2021), Petra (Rerun books, 2018), and co-author of غم/Tristezza/Sorrow (with Golrokh Nafisi, Oreri 2021) and Albe e Tramonti di Praiano (with Michele Bertolino, Oreri 2022).
Giulia Crispiani introduces participants to her writing practice, a site-specific form of writing that is closely tied to the time and place in which it will be read. She invites them to engage in small writing exercises, gathering sensory impressions in order to write with the mountains and with the weather.She encourages working through images, but in a way that is not purely personal: not writing for oneself, but a form of public writing, directed outward. For Crispiani, writing is also a way of amplifying the voices of others—writing with other authors and their bibliographies.
She also reflects on how her practice has gradually taken on a political dimension, marked by the need not to remain silent. In this process, love and rage become intertwined forces, and words take on a specific weight: they can be stones or weapons.
