GABRIELE CHIAPPARINI & CAMILLA MARRESE
THINKING LIKE AN ISLAND
Published by Overlapse, 2024
22 x 17 cm
224 pages across four integrated books
Softcover
Language English
The Island is distant in the Mediterranean sea, and 675 meters in height. It's inhabited by an uncertain number of 30 to 60 people, year-round, with no hospital, no cars, no priests or police. Some islanders never consider leaving while others tried, only to return to their lives in the remote bubble. There are untold stories, complex family trees, and historical lore surrounding the community existing on loaves of hallucinogenic-laced bread.
Bound into an 'unconventional' book structure, Thinking like an Island reflects on a geographical, social and temporal space, on a system and its moveable logic. Avoiding the typical representation of an island as utopia or dystopia, this work looks at the continuous process of identity construction; clash and coexistence, choice and confinement, innovation and resistance. The experience proves to be stratified, plural and dense; a vertigo of increasing complexity.
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The island is remote in the Mediterranean Sea and is 675 meters above sea level. It is inhabited by an uncertain number of 30 to 60 people, all year round, without a hospital, a car, a priest or a police force. Some islanders never considered leaving, while others tried, but returned to their lives in this isolated bubble. There are untold stories, complex family trees and historical legends surrounding the community living on bread laced with hallucinogens.
Linked to an “unconventional” book structure, Thinking like an Island reflects on a geographical, social and temporal space, on a system and its shifting logic. Avoiding the typical representation of an island as utopia or dystopia, this work examines the ongoing process of identity construction: shock and coexistence, choice and confinement, innovation and resistance. The experience proves to be layered, plural and dense; a vertigo of increasing complexity.