Survival Kit - The person who kept functioning 4/99

 Survival Kit - The person who kept functioning 4/99, 2016

 Dedicated to [you] when despite holding things carefully they break.

       

Survival Kit - Assaf 1/99

Survival Kit - Assaf 1/99, 2014, T-shirt, size M 

This Survival Kit was created as a contribute to Closer To Gaza. An auction that brings together more than 180 international artists to raise funds for medical assistance in Gaza. More on Closer to Gaza http://www.closertogaza.org/ 
To the auction: http://paddle8.com/auctions/closertogaza

Jade 1/99

Deborah Ligorio, Survival Kit - Jade 1/99, 2013. Assemblage: avocado peel, rope, 7 x 6 x 400 cm.

This Survival Kit is dedicated to Jade, who sits every morning at her table wondering about the connection between causality and contingency, in relation to the entropic smashing of an egg and the impossibility of unsmashing it.

London Book Launch | @ The Showroom |

London Book launch @ The Showroom, last week with: Federica Bueti, Stefan Heidenreich, Lucy Mercer, and Dieter Roelstraete.

Berlin Book Launch | @ Archive Kabinett |

http://www.indexberlin.de/openings-and-events

Federico Campagna | Skype Interview

federico campagna from on survival kits on Vimeo.

book is out!

http://www.sternberg-press.com/

upcoming book

Contributions by 
Marie-Luise Angerer, Armen Avanessian, Federica Bueti, Paul Feigelfeld, Graham Harman,
Stefan Heidenreich, Vincenzo Latronico, Lucy Mercer, Katherine Richardson, 
Dieter Roelstraete, Ana Teixeira Pinto, Giovanna Zapperi

For years now our lives have been shaped by a crisis impacting both our economy and our personal lives. But what is ultimately in crisis?

Survival Kits offers twelve perspectives on this issue—from fields as diverse as philosophy, politics, media theory, environmental activism, feminism, post-human theory, literature, geopolitics, art, and economics.

These theoretical investigations originated with artist Deborah Ligorio’s research. The book takes its title from an eponymous series of sculptures and video interviews describing situations of emergency, vulnerability, and struggle experienced by a living or a fictional person, which propose inventive tools for adaptation or resistance. A selection from this series is featured in the publication.

Design by Studio Manuel Raeder

Published by Sternberg Press 

September 2013, English

12 x 18 cm, 136 pages, 30 color ills., softcover

ISBN 978-3-95679-018-8

Survival Kit | Bellissima 5/99

Deborah Ligorio, Survival Kit - Bellissima 5/99, 2013, assemblage: egg box, padded fabric, vegan lanyard, 11x13x11 cm.

Survival Kit | Bellissima 4/99

Deborah Ligorio, Survival Kit - Bellissima 4/99, 2013, assemblage: egg box, organic fabric, woolen threads, 25x12x11 cm.

Survival Kit | Bellissima 3/99

Deborah Ligorio, Survival Kit - Bellissima 3/99, 2013, assemblage: egg box, fabric, masking tape, 25x12x11 cm.

The Survival Kit Bellissima is dedicated to Luchino Visconti's film (with the same title, 1951) and in particular to the aspirations and desperation, expectation and projections, of the mother Maddalena (Anna Magnani) towards her daughter and the dream of making her become a young actress in Cinecittà.

Survival Kit | Gayatri Spivak 2/99

Deborah Ligorio, Survival Kit - Gayatri Spivak 2/99, 2013, assemblage: package of plaster, sponge, silver hand mirror, 42x13x10,5cm.

This Survival Kit is dedicated to Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak when she says: "The double bind starts to kick in. (...) You cannot be against globalization; you can only work collectively and persistently to turn it into strategy-driven rather than crisis-driven globalization".

Survival Kit | Nuccio 2/99

Deborah Ligorio, Survival Kit - Nuccio 2/99, 2013, tin can, photo frame, 12x14x9cm.

Nuccio always grew his own chicory, his eggplants, his olives, his vineyard on his own piece of land. At 65 he was diagnosed lung cancer. He never smoked. His piece of land lies few kilometers east of Taranto's ILVA steel plant that emitted 92% of Italy's dioxins.  

Survival Kit | Panicos Poutziouri 2/99

Deborah Ligorio, Survival Kit - Panicos Poutziouri 2/99, 2013, assemblage: sand bag, coconut, poster putty, rubber band, 13x10x11cm.

This Survival Kit is dedicated to Mr.Panicos Poutziouri. On July 12, 2012 he became a member of the Board of Directors at Laiki Bank. On March 18, 2013 the Plan A for the Cyprus bailout included a levy on all bank deposits. The Plan B sealed on the early morning of the 25th the end to Laiki Bank.

Survival Kit | Gayatri Spivak 1/99

Deborah Ligorio, Survival Kit - Gayatri Spivak 1/99, 2013, assemblage: cloth, avocado seed, brush handle, 22x19x11cm.

This Survival Kit is dedicated to Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak when she says: "The double bind starts to kick in. (...) You cannot be against globalization; you can only work collectively and persistently to turn it into strategy-driven rather than crisis-driven globalization".

Survival Kit | Researcher Marcella 4/99

Deborah Ligorio, Survival Kit - Researcher Marcella 4/99, 2013, assemblage: kraft bubble envelope, gantlet, rope, 8x 13x 27cm

Marcella is one of the many academics forming part of the so called “brain drain”. A young Italian researcher that despite a double MA couldn't find a payed position in Italy. After a number of unpaid internships she decided to move abroad.

Claudio Sinatti

Claudio Sinatti on Survival Kits from on survival kits on Vimeo.

Survival Kit | Fabio 2/99

Deborah Ligorio, Survival Kit - Fabio 2/99, 2013, metal clamp, baby Nike-shoe, chickpeas pack, rubber band, 11x12x19 cm.

Fabio works at Taranto's ILVA steel plant, one of the biggest facilities of metallurgical industry in Europe and of the most polluting. He has three kids. When interviewed on TV about the measures to be taken against the factory he says “it's better to die of pollution than of starvation”.

Survival Kit | The person who kept functioning 3/99

Deborah Ligorio, Survival Kit - The person who kept functioning 3/99, 2013,

 paper box, hidden item, book, belt, 8x10,5x15cm

This survival kit is inspired by the story of Elaine. Despite she would hold things carefully they would break.

Survival Kit | Fabio

 Deborah Ligorio, Survival Kit - Fabio, 2013, bronze, 11x12x19 cm.

Fabio works at Taranto's ILVA steel plant, one of the biggest facilities of metallurgical industry in Europe and of the most polluting. He has three kids. When interviewed on TV about the measures to be taken against the factory he says “it's better to die of pollution than of starvation”.

Researcher Marcella 3/99

 
Deborah Ligorio, Survival Kit - Researcher Marcella 3/99, 2013, assemblage: collaged parcel, collants, lemon, headphones, 4x 17x 32cm

Marcella is one of the many academics forming part of the so called “brain drain”. A young Italian researcher that despite a double MA couldn't find a payed position in Italy. After a number of unpaid internships she decided to move abroad.

Survival Kit | Panicos Poutziouri 1/99

Deborah Ligorio, Survival Kit - Panicos Poutziouri 1/99, 2013, assemblage: bottle, tennis ball, passion fruit peel, rag, 15x16x9cm.

This Survival Kit is dedicated to Mr.Panicos Poutziouri. On July 12, 2012 he became a member of the Board of Directors at Laiki Bank. On March 18, 2013 the Plan A for the Cyprus bailout included a levy on all bank deposits. The Plan B sealed on the early morning of the 25th the end to Laiki Bank.

Annabelle the Dressmaker

Annabelle the Dressmaker from on survival kits on Vimeo.

Students in Lüneburg

Students in Lüneburg from on survival kits on Vimeo.

from a series of interviews about Survival Kits

Ministerialrätin from on survival kits on Vimeo.

Students in Lecce

Two girls in Lecce from on survival kits on Vimeo.

a series of interviews about Survival Kits

pensioners from on survival kits on Vimeo.

the optician | interview

the optician from on survival kits on Vimeo.