The Cafausica Tales

The short stories in this book were written collectively on the occasion of exhibitions festivals and art projects in different contexts and at different times: A False Luke (Lu Cafausu) an exhibition curated by Marcin Ramocki for vertexList Brooklyn from January 26th to March 4th 2007 (episodes 1 2 3); Contemporary Passages (Temporary Roots and Interweaving Paths) curated by Angela Serino for Tent Rotterdam from May 25th to July 1st 2007 (episode 4); Forgotten Sculptors a performative event produced and hosted by the Sculpture Center in the context of PERFORMA07 in New York with the participation of Joan Jonas and Steve Piccolo November 3rd 2007 (episodes 5 6 7 8). The authors have conceived the stories of episodes 1-8 in the form of email messages each composed of a short text accompanied by an image. Episodes 9 10 11 12 13 were commissioned by Musagetes a Canadian philanthropic arts organization and were published on ArtsEverywhere.ca in 2016.