12.11.2026

„Buongiorno notte“: Writing workshop

Workshop, Via del Vecchio Politecnico 3, Milano

Open Call

Dates
12.11.2026
Location
Via del Vecchio Politecnico 3, Milano
Category
Workshop
Information

Open Call

„Buongiorno notte“: Writing workshop with Ilaria Vinci and Maria Luce Cacciaguerra

12.11.2026 H18:30-21:30

As part of Ilaria Vinci’s exhibition Goodnight Morning, Istituto Svizzero is hosting a free writing workshop led by the artist together with Maria Luce Cacciaguerra. During the workshop, participants will bring their texts and have the opportunity to explore and discuss their writing practices in relation to Ilaria Vinci’s exhibition and the theme of the forest.

To apply, please send a piece of your own writing to marialucecacciaguerra@gmail.com, vincilaria@gmail.com, and press@istitutosvizzero.it. Places are limited to a maximum of 12 participants, and the workshop will be conducted in Italian.

Selected participants will receive confirmation one week before the event.

Application deadline: 03.11.2026

Maria Luce Cacciaguerra’s practice moves between poetry, voice, and publishing, and is always collaborative. She has exhibited at Museo Madre in Naples, and this year her text Operazioni di niente was selected for Dial a Poem Italia, part of the John Giorno Poetry System’s international Dial a Poem project. The project’s telephone was exhibited at MAMbo in Bologna as part of a solo exhibition dedicated to John Giorno. In publishing, she edits Remedia, Pungitopo Editore’s poetry series, for which she has translated works by Yvonne Rainer and Allison Grimaldi Donahue. She is the founder of Murmur, a collective of poets, performers, and artists working with writing, readings, and workshops.

Ilaria Vinci (1991, Brindisi) lives and works in Zurich. Vinci’s practice spans sculpture, installation, drawing, and collaborative performance, exploring how fantasy shapes, reveals, and distorts reality through the languages of visual entertainment. Drawing on recurring cultural motifs such as Sci-fi tropes and fairytales, she investigates how narratives evolve across time while preserving their core metaphorical functions. By distilling visual themes into essential components of storytelling, Vinci positions viewers as co-authors in the process of meaning-making, framing fiction as a critical tool for interpreting and transforming contemporary realities. Her work has been included in solo and group exhibitions at Kunsthaus Zurich (2024), Kunsthalle Zurich, (2023), Museion, Bolzano (2023), Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich (2023); MACRO Museum, Rome (2022); Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin (2021); Kunsthalle Sankt Gallen (2021), among others.

Goodnight Morning presents a series of new sculptures that evoke the liminal passage from wakefulness into sleep, and back. The works seem to appropriate the oniric process by which the day’s information and traumatic events are transformed into objects, places, and scenarios that are familiar yet distorted by a language that transcends rationality. United by wood as both organic material and symbolic device, the works engage with cultural archetypes that have endured across the centuries as vehicles for different meanings and forms of power. Unified by Vinci’s sculptural and poetic language, they seem to interrogate the transformative potential of the subconscious as the antechamber of reality.

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