ABOUT

But heard, half-heard, in the stillness
between two waves of the sea.

__T. S. Eliot The Four Quartets

Christian Patracchini is an independent artist, writer and editor, working across different art forms; projects alternate between text-based work, sound, photography and drawing.

His enquiry explores a code of gestures, which investigates their potential and modes of existence in relation to their own privation. Within practice and research, he often addresses the essential importance of these resonances and movements before a choice or a solution has been reached. This idea leaves his work deliberately ‘unresolved’ whilst attempting to catch new thoughts and actions dawning at a creative crossing.

At the centre of many of his projects, there is a fascination with how movement can be felt before it actualizes – taking form, is a key to a developing vocabulary of movement that foregrounds incipience rather than placement/displacement.

Processes of association, extraction, juxtaposition, distortion and fragmentation are vital approaches to create ‘apertures’, which rather than arriving at end-objects, or fulfilling objective ends, are carried by wavelike tendencies in a rollover of experiences continually substituting for each other.

Possible paradigms are: cognitive experience – temporal dimensions – memory – gestures – potentiality – suspension – Déjà vu.

In recent years, he has shown works in exhibitions and festivals in the UK and abroad, including: the BIOS Festival in Athens 2009, the PAE Festival in Rotterdam 2010, the Colloquium Festival 2011 at School of Speech and Drama, Dimanche Rouge (Paris) 2012, The Month of Performance Art (Berlin) 2013, Tempting Failure (Bristol) 2014, Writing Sound 2 (Bergen) 2014, Café Oto (London) 2015 , Art Writing festival ‘WhereWereWe’ - Aarhus (Denmark) 2015, PoemBrut (RichMix) 2016/17, ILLUMINATIONS Austrian Cultural Institute 2018 , European Poetry Festival 2018 and at the Hungarian Cultural Institute 2019.

He is the founding editor of ZenoPress an independent publisher. 

Last projects: Ontological Gate 2024, Never Penned 2024, When Symbols Fail 2023, Tystnaden (2023) , Volition (2022) It is so (If you think so) Exploitation of Concept I (2022), Elia (2021), Double Ordering (2021), Reinvolvement (2020), , Knots - Displacements Taking Form (2017).

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