Thursday, 27 February 2014

europe's troublemakers: collective writing and italy: wu ming

Last Wednesday Radio 4 took us to Italy - very strange or a great subject to discuss...
Why don't you try and write something 'collectively'...

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Italy: Wu Ming

Episode 3 of 5

Lucy Ash profiles people who are making waves across Europe, with individual stories which expose the continent's cultural, political and economic fault lines.
Wu Ming - an Italian writers' collective rather than one person - is turning literary conventions on their head and questioning the political establishment. They started out as pranksters, hoodwinking the media, cooking up stories about a missing British cyclist and an artistic chimpanzee. Now their exploits are mainly confined to the page following the unexpected success of their first novel Q which has been translated into more than 20 languages. They are prolific bloggers and writers of non-fiction on issues they care about such as Italy's colonial record in Africa and the threat of fascism in Europe.Lucy Ash samples their brand of art and activism, first at a reading in Turin and then with Italy's most famous social protest movement, which is fighting a high-speed rail link under the Alps
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BBC Radio 4 - Europe's Troublemakers, Italy: Wu Ming

Wu Ming Foundation: Who we are and what we do
Wu Ming - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Everyone does everything | Red Pepper
Altai by Wu Ming, review - Telegraph
Wu Ming on Altai and the political subjectivity of writing as a collective - Features - Books - The Independent
Wu Ming interview | Books | The Guardian
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