Telepoesia was a poetry night that beamed writers direct from London and Spain to Palermo.

Jaichun Gao
Valerie Kong
Jack Strange
Rosie Lee Wilson
Eamon Gamee
Tom Hardwick Allen
Xisi Sofie Ye Chen
Joe Davies
Veronica Byrne

With translations by Pietro Librizzi

Rover.live
Via Roma 206, Palermo
October 2018

Rover welcomes the people in Palermo, temporary visitors, and the world wide web to its flexible facility on Via Roma 206.

Rover is a particular recycling + broadcast plant (rampicante) that tries to understand matter (acting as a decomposer), and how to process it altogether.

It incorporates various activities and is in celebration of fully tangled conglomerate outputs, which occupy a multitude of different dispersal / communication techniques, including.. film making, film screenings, paper / poster making, filtration systems, live broadcasts, music events, maquettes to model forecasting and currents, loose scripts for theatre, solar radio systems. For Manifesta in Palermo, the project takes ideas from waste management chains that process matter, to figure out different communication tools (and the loss that occurs in the widest sense of translation) that will question what is waste itself.

Rover.live has two workshops operating simultaneously at Via Roma 206.

Upstairs is a recycling plant focused on making posters. The posters are made from a pulp of blended paper, left-over from different organisations now based in Palermo: cards, wraps and all kinds of printed information (that might inform about the current concurrences in town) are added to the mix, along with discards/detritus found around the streets and squares, small solar powered radio systems (opening FM wavelengths in fluctuation with sunlight) and germinating seeds. These communications tangle in the pulp pool to create inadvertent archives of activity both internal and external to the facility. Various parameters recreate air and underwater currents, and other alterations in flow and direction. Filtration systems operate in tangent with this pool, and various sieves are used to produce the paper. They are distributed to public spaces across the city and disseminated online, to announce the facility's activity, a continuous open call, and a conglomerate of surrounding events and organisations.

Downstairs is a cinema which hosts film screenings in the form of a perennial moving image playlist, in accumulation throughout our time here. A permanently open - open call - initially stemming from artists and filmmakers in Palermo, Barcelona, London, and announced via various communication methods, including the posters, invites participation. The cinema will celebrate it’s existence every Sunday (MOSTRA) at 20.00 with presentations of particular films, with the idea of fostering further exchange and in appreciation of the difference of things occupying space together.

The intention of these activities is to gather a group of people interested in developing a series of filming events in response to the current climate in Palermo. Rover.live is a platform that processes, edits and broadcasts live links simultaneously and is looking for collaborators to exchange impressions while making films using the available media in Palermo.

To get involved, or for any questions about the project, please send to join@rover.live , or visit us at Via Roma 206

MOSTRA / FILMS

VIA ROMA 206, PALERMO

TOM CHISHOLM +
CLÀUDIA DEL BARRIO +
AUSTIN YOUNG +
ELIZA COLLIN +
CALIXTO RAMIREZ CORREA

DOMENICA 28 OTTOBRE

Join us for Tom Chisholm's Gap 2, Insect Death March (2018), Clàudia Del Barrio's Huge Mood (2017), Austin Young's The Worm Episode 8.. a panel discussion with Cher, Britney and Madonna.. (2009), Eliza Collin presents two short films to illustrate a series of clothes designed for performance artist Rhoda Boateng 'Drowned Statues' (2016)and a presentation of video works by Calixto Ramirez Correa.

GODAI SAHARA +
JAUME CLOTET +
JOE DAVIES +
AGNÈS PE

DOMENICA 21 OTTOBRE

Godai Sahara's 'How to Make Rainwine'(2018, Glasgow). Sahara makes wine from rainwater. Rainwine tastes simple, made from plain ingredients, almost like rainwater with a subtle hint of alcohol. It varies depending on the location of rain collection. Sometimes it’s pure and clear, sometimes it’s filthy leaving unidentifiable flavour. Jaume Clotet's vidmixtape(2018, Rotterdam)a video mixtape from recent works. Readings of 'Big Boy Poem', 'Mechanical Processes And Their Excesses' and 'Slim Volume' (2018, London) by Joe Davies and Agnès Pe's TORRE (2011, Madrid). Una comunidad que funciona de forma autónoma por unos agentes con tareas muy definidas. Todo se concentra en dos hectáreas. Ni primitivos ni modernos. Su arriendo es una unidad económica y un hogar.

ALBERT GARCIA-ALZORRIZ +
ANSSO ANN +
PIETRO LIBRIZZI

DOMENICA 14 OTTOBRE

Join us at Rover, Via Roma 206, on SUNDAY 14TH of October at 20.00 for the screenings of Pietro Librizzi's Softman (2016, Palermo), Albert Garcia-Alzorriz's Tras Los Eucaliptos (2018, Barcelona) and Ansso Ann's Lemon Impromptu and Q P DElusion (2018, London).
The three films reflect on the way inhabitants of very particular environments communicate and share their thoughts on how the initial purposes of the places they find themselves in have dissolved.
Together, they will find ways of detangling their past and bonding together exponentially.

Telepoesia was a poetry night that beamed writers direct from London and Spain to Palermo. Jaichun Gao Valerie Kong Jack Strange Rosie Lee Wilson Eamon Gamee Tom Hardwick Allen Xisi Sofie Ye Chen Joe Davies Veronica Byrne With translations by Pietro Librizzi

Telepoesia was a poetry night that beamed writers direct from London and Spain to Palermo.

Jaichun Gao
Valerie Kong
Jack Strange
Rosie Lee Wilson
Eamon Gamee
Tom Hardwick Allen
Xisi Sofie Ye Chen
Joe Davies
Veronica Byrne

With translations by Pietro Librizzi