#Ephimera

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Ephimera Dialoghi sulla moda

a cura di Sofia Gnoli

testi di Antonio Mancinelli, Maria Luisa Frisa, Alessandro Michele, Anna Piaggi, Luca Stoppini, Mariuccia Casadio, Quirino Conti, Bonizza Giordani Aragno, Maria Grazia Chiuri, Giuseppe Scaraffia, Gabriella Pescucci, Valeria Palermi, Daniela Baroncini, Silvia Venturini Fendi, Andrea Mecacci

Electa, Milano 2020, 115 pagine, 16x24cm, brossura con alette, ISBN 9788892820319

euro 29,00

email if you want to buy booksinprogressmilano@yahoo.it

La moda nelle sue innumerevoli sfaccettature è la protagonista Ephimera, un volume nato dal ciclo di conversazioni che si è tenuto al Parco archeologico del Colosseo, nella Curia Iulia, cuore della civiltà romana, tra il 2019 e il 2020.

Fugace, velocissima, radicata nel presente, la moda sta sempre sul punto di diventare qualcos’altro, di cambiare pelle. È proprio per questo che la curatrice Sofia Gnoli ha scelto Ephimera – da epi “sopra” che messo insieme ad emera “giorno”, significa di un sol giorno – come titolo di questi dialoghi. Il risultato è un libro che esplora la moda da una molteplicità di punti di vista: moda come linguaggio di segni, come espressione artistica, senza trascurare argomenti classici quali l’androginia o il dandysmo e il suo legame con il cinema e con la letteratura, con la fotografia e con il kitsch.

Il continuo scambio tra presente e passato, così come la natura polimorfica di questa disciplina si riflettono anche sulla diversa formazione dei partecipanti di Ephimera, nonché autori del volume: direttori creativi, artisti, saggisti, studiosi e giornalisti, hanno approfondito, attraverso la loro personale visione, un aspetto della contemporaneità. Attraverso tutti questi racconti, Ephimera traccia un quadro della moda con le sue mutevolezze, le sue imprevedibilità e le sue compulsive morti e rinascite. Così, tra presente e passato, tra effimero ed eternità, la moda non smette di incantare.

EPHIMERA SOFIA GNOLI L’AVVENIRE È LA PORTA, IL PASSATO È LA CHIAVE ANTONIO MANCINELLI E SILVIA VENTURINI FENDI ALESSANDRO MICHELE: ARCHEOLOGO DELLE COSE A VENIRE MARIA LUISA FRISA E ALESSANDRO MICHELE MODA: STRUMENTO DI CONSAPEVOLEZZA, ARTE DEL POSSIBILE VALERIA PALERMI E MARIA GRAZIA CHIURI LE D.P. “DOPPIE PAGINE” DI ANNA PIAGGI LUCA STOPPINI ANNA PIAGGI “PRIVATE” PAOLO CASTALDI FENOMENOLOGIA DEL DANDY GIUSEPPE SCARAFFIA IL DANDISMO DI LUIGI ONTANI MARIUCCIA CASADIO L’INDISTINTA SESSUALITÀ DELLA MODA QUIRINO CONTI OSCAR AI COSTUMI GABRIELLA PESCUCCI IL GUARDAROBA DELL’EROS: LETTERATURA, MODA E EDUZIONE DANIELA BARONCINI SGUARDI ITALIANI: LA FOTOGRAFIA DI MODA IN ITALIA BONIZZA GIORDANI ARAGNO CONSIDERAZIONI SUL KITSCH ANDREA MECACCI

23/05/24

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[guillemelgat]

Hey hello I made a thing! As perhaps a few of you know, I have spent the last half a year being completely unhinged about Patrick O’Brian’s Aubrey-Maturin books, and I’ve always been particularly interested in the character Stephen Maturin and his relationship to Catalonia. I saw that there was a lack of stuff about this part of his identity, and, being me, I felt the need to fill it in the only way I could: compiling music and yelling about it for thirty pages. Hence this playlist.

You really don’t need to know anything about these books to listen to this playlist. You also don’t need to know anything about Catalan (I hope). Catalonia and the Catalan Countries in general (including Valencia, the Balearic Islands, and parts of southern France, Aragon, and Sardinia) have a really interesting musical and literary tradition, and I wanted to make that more accessible, so I put together a few songs I liked, translated them, and wrote a bit about each of their significance, including the most important cultural tidbits I could. Some things don’t translate super well, and I hope my Catalan followers will forgive me for trying to adapt them more for English-speaking audiences than perhaps would be preferable; I usually don’t choose to do that, but in this case I wanted to open the door, and not to intimidate people.

Now that that’s out of the way, here is a link to the PDF of the liner notes (graphic design is my passion, as they say): https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MUpRM84W8aypznEIrt0eA1jG5OxaRZvz/view?usp=sharing

Under the cut I’ve included the ephimera and unnecessary commentary that you know and love, feel free to read or ignore it as you will

These roughly follow the order of the songs and are varying levels of seriousness

If you like "Sant Joan, feu-lo ben gran" then I'd highly recommend listening to the whole Tornaveus album. I almost included the “Stabat Mater de Sudanell” and the “Goigs de Sant Julià de Lòria”, which are both from western Catalonia, and they also have more cançons de pandero, in perhaps a slightly more traditional style. A lot of the other songs have interesting cultural commentary in them, especially on feminist topics, and they’re very well-researched because literally one of the members of the group is basically the ethnomusicologist of Catalan music at the moment. Anyways, if people would like the liner notes perhaps next time I’m home I’ll scan them, they’re in Catalan and English and very well-written. Also note the legendary Lluís Llach song which has been turned into a polyphonic piece lol (and I did not include the “Goigs de la Nostra Senyora de la Llibertat” but tbh that might have been a mistake on my part) (Blorbo side note that I think this fits Stephen’s childhood very well which is mostly why I chose it)

“L’Hereu Riera” is one of my favorite Catalan folk songs I love it so much and if you want to hear the Catalan version (as opposed to the Valencian one included here) and see the dance and also see a cobla, I am including a link to this version by Germà Negre which is tragically not on Spotify. I chose the Valencian one because (1) Al Tall and (2) I think it fits The Blorbo better (specifically I was thinking of his fiancée who dies before Book One who idk if anyone ever remembers shdjfhskf). That being said, Stephen would probably know the Catalan one (and almost certainly not the Valencian one). Also, on a memey-er note, Hereu Riera bisexual king and literal icon <3 love how he has to remind his girlfriend on her deathbed that actually he'd technically be interested in both her sisters AND her brothers if he wasn't so into her that he never wanted to marry anyone else

I literally did put in Roger Mas just so there would be at least one person with a Lleidan accent, #diversity win

Many points about the “Cançó de pandero de l’Urgell” and “Jo no canto per la veu” so here we go:

I put these two songs in mostly because I got very obsessed with the cançó de pandero from Alcarràs (which is a great movie that came out last year about a farming family in a village near Lleida that is winning all the awards atm). Anyways, since Carla Simón has been too busy winning things to put up the gotdam soundtrack, I did a bit of digging and it turns out that it was written for the movie?? By her brother??? It's excellent and very anticapitalist and you can listen to it here and see the trailer for Alcarràs all in one! (Includes English subtitles)

The original “Canto per un amic meu que per mi daria la vida” is probably from a Valencian cant de batre, although I could not get any confirmation on that. But regardless everyone should listen to Pep Botifarra's version of it, which I would literally marry if it had a physical form it’s so so good. (I posted it here back in ye olden days but it's been long enough I think I can post it again)

Valencian music side note because I can’t stop myself: the second pair of verses in the "Cançó de pandero de l'Urgell" (starting with “vos esteu ben acotxada…”) are sung by Miquel Gil, who is a very famous Valencian traditional singer, anyways you should listen to this version of him singing “Del Sud” by Obrint Pas (you want to go down a Valencian music rabbit hole so so bad)

I firmly believe that Stephen would canonically be obsessed with Ausiàs March, and the fact that he has not yet recited any of his poems is Patrick O’Brian’s biggest failing in my eyes. Anyways I have more thoughts but I’m saving them for other posts shdfjsd

If you read this before listening to the playlist please just listen to "El testament d'Amèlia" and follow along with the lyrics in real time before reading the blurb, it's such a good experience to let that song hit you as it comes. I won't say more than that but you'll get it when you get it. (Also obligatory listen to Marala they're so good <3)

From the Càntut album, I also quite like the songs "El pomeró" and "El divino vull cantar", and Càntut in general is an incredible resource, it's a database of folk song field recordings from northeastern Catalonia.

Brief pause to scream about the fact that Maria Arnal and Marcel Bagés WERE ON NPR??? AND NO ONE TOLD ME???? Anyways link in the sources section, also they're great and you should listen to their whole discography

As the #1 Roba Estesa stan blog on Tumblr, listen to Roba Estesa. And Ebri Knight. And El Diluvi.

I chose this version of "La presó de Lleida" because I like it but here's a more traditional one sung by Joan Manel Serrat, another Catalan legend. Here's another one in Catalan rumba style with Sílvia Pérez Cruz singing, the sound is a bit wonky but it's also one of my favorites. The Valencian version of this song is called "La presó de Tibi" and El Diluvi have done a very explicitly anti-monarchical rendition of it (the Balearic one is "La presó de Nàpols").

I'm sorry for never putting the Sílvia Pérez Cruz version of "Corrandes d'exili" but if you want it here it is. Also note that the statue of the Virgin in the poem is a reference to the Virgin of Montserrat, it literally all goes back to her shfjkshdf (also apologies for being very bad at Christianity and Catholicism, if I mistranslated things let me know)

HOO BOY SARDANA TIME

Okay so I have a whole essay to deliver on this that I've been holding inside for the past like two months or so, I apologize in advance for my excessive pedantry on the topic.

In Master and Commander, Stephen delivers this speech:

"‘Then I must tell you that on Sunday mornings it is the custom, in that country, for people of all ages and conditions to dance, on coming out of church: so I was dancing with Ramon Mateu i Cadafalch in the square before the cathedral church of Tarragona, where I had gone to hear the Palestrina Missa Brevis. The dance is a particular dance, a round called the sardana.’"

I hate to be a hater but it is very, very unlikely that anyone would have been dancing a sardana as far south as Tarragona in this time period. The sardana as the symbol of equality and brotherhood emerged in the Renaixença and would not yet have been a thing; Stephen could well have heard sardanas in Ullastret, but they would have been a more typical folk dance, and not anything like the way they're described in the book. It's very ironic, then, that they've become THE Catalan music style for Aubreyad readers, but hopefully this playlist can change that a bit :)

(also sorry for being a sardana-hater on main, someone bring me to dance a sardana and maybe I'll feel better)

Songs that didn't make the cut: La cançó del lladre, Rossinyol que vas a França, La balanguera, La gavina - I'm always happy for more recs!

Originally, this list was also going to include songs in Irish; I quickly realized that I was in over my head with that one, but the working list of songs is here (may be subject to changes so save songs elsewhere if you like them!). Also I would add "Fé Bhláth" by Imelda May and Kíla if it was on Spotify but alas it is not; and "Amhrán na Leabhar" which I have not had time to add but was kindly recommended by someone. I'd love it if someone was interested in actually doing a proper playlist for Irish though—it's a gap in my knowledge that I'd love to start filling.

Aaaaaaand that's a wrap. I hope. Final comment to say thank you to everyone who voted in the cover image poll, turns out you all won :) (Pirineus did win and take the cover of the liner notes though)

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Carta De Amor

Llámenme cursi, romántica, o lo que sea, realmente me importa poco; pues ahora que sé que tu corazón no me pertenece quería agradecerte por este amor efímero que jamás olvidare, porque te ame con locura, hasta el delirio, y gracias a ti ahora le tengo miedo a la muerte, tu recuerdo era lo que me hacía conciliar el sueño en noches de insomnio, y aunque se que tu corazon ahora es de otra , tienes que saber que mi corazon seguira siendo tuyo para siempre...

[10centsblog]

Hola! Soy nueva aquí, sólo quiero compartir lo que siento y espero se puedan identificar con lo que escriba 😊

[mada-mada-music]

New set at @ephimeratulum #soundcloud Check it out in my Story and Their soundcloud #music #rooftop #producers #ephimera (en La Veleta Tulum) https://www.instagram.com/p/CchPlO2sRgk/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Announcement for the exhibition Tapisserien von Sonia Delaunay, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, 1974

[oliviafrankenstein]

I found all of these cute papers at an asian market yesterday! And then i found out they're called "Joss Paper" or "ghost paper" and you burn them for your ancestors or at funerals. They also have paper bills called "Hell money" that you burn and it's basically like commissary for ghosts?! It reminds me a lot of dia de los muertos and Whaaaat I need to learn more... #heydadthisonesonyou #heydisneymakethisintoamovie #josspaper #ghostpaper #cute #ephimera #halloween #stationary #chinese #howdidinotknowaboutthis https://www.instagram.com/p/B0JRdq_h5uc/?igshid=az06v51qocre

[pixeles]

As always, thanks for your hairstyles, everything you create and others is super cool.They make the game entertaining!!!

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[yanyare]

Nos alegra mucho poder invitaros este fin de semana a la maravillosa sexta edición de venta efímera pop-up organizada por @singularesmag Singulares Inventory Room. Os mostraremos una exclusiva selección de nuestras baldosas y además @petabi realizará un precioso taller gratuito DIY con nuestras baldosas Yanyare (plazas limitadas). Estaremos felices de veros 😍 #singularesinventoryroom #SIR2017MADRID #ephimera #baldosahidraulica #cementtiles #encaustictiles #carreauxdeciment #deco #interiors #tilenvy #renovation #design #interiorsdesign #zementfliesen #loquiero #shoponline #ihavethisthingwiththisfloors #vintage #elegance #luxurytiles #nosinmisbaldosas #yanyare_design #cuki #popup #mercadillo #decoracion (en Ephimera)

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NEW ORLEANS STREETCAR HISTORY

1902 Tourist Guide to New Orleans, Published and Distributed Gratis by the NEW ORLEANS CITY RAIL ROAD Co. Folding booklet with what to see and how to get there , with photographs and the most amazing New Orleans Map showing all 13 streetcar lines , railroad and special cars routes . A must for the historian , railroad collector and all around Nola history buff. Rare piece of New Orleans street car and railroad history.

Item No. E4982-26

Dimensions: 7″ x 3 3/4″ folded . Map is 13 1/2″ x 14″ 

List Price” $ 195

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[jennchubeold]

Youchube -> Jennchube

I decided to change my username so I can have the same username on all my social media. I might change it again in a couple of months but for now i’m sticking with it