Hill of Desires. Practices of Rural Imagination - Matteo Binci, Pietro Consolandi, Giacomo Pigliapoco, Bianca Schröder (ed.)

Hill of Desires is a collective publishing device that engages with contemporary art as a situated practice rooted in European peripheral and inland territories. It is a radical exercise in imagination that embraces rurality as a space of counter-narration, one capable of generating political ecologies, affective infrastructures and non-institutional forms of knowledge, offering a critical contribution to the redefinition of cultural geographies and curatorial paradigms beyond the logic of the event. The project is split into five sections: a visual atlas featuring key works created in Italy from 1960 to the present; three specially commissioned artist-designed dust jackets; nine essays written for the publication; a collective bibliography and photographic documentation of the multi-year Traffic Festival.