Respicio (and other look-back stories)
Paradox of respect: what if it was our obsessive demand for respect causing its current scarcity? Raffaele Alberto Ventura investigates for O13 respect in philosophy, anthropology... and rap.
For a decolonization of the global food system: the Masala y Maíz model. Conversation with Saqib Keval and Norma Listman
Mestizaje Rebelde is the reference locution for what happens to food cultures in the global South, historically despoiled until two fighting chefs decided to confront the system. Their story, through their voices.
The body and the shelter: respect for rights and contemporary art. A conversation with Berlinde De Bruyckere
No one, more than she, knows how to mold respect for life, beyond its skin. No one, more than she, creates beauty from the non-zone of the margin. On a journey between respect and its opposite, O13 meets Berlinde De Bruyckere.
Beneath our feet _ by George Monbiot
«Beneath our feet is a miracle», writes the award-winning Guardian columnist, essayist and environmental activist George Monbiot, for the opening act of Ossigeno 12. But if we cannot know the reasons for miracles for they are supernatural, nothing is more natural than the soil, which we do not know only because of our guilty neglect. Between data and enchantment, Monbiot tells us that miracle of life and vitality that is soil.
The soil that cultivates water. In conversation with Lorenzo Costa
Like his Renaissance namesake, a great artist at the court of the Este family, Lorenzo Costa paints new morphologies by shaping the soil with water. An Italian pioneer of permaculture, his practice responds to three imperatives – to slow down, to distribute, to infiltrate – by listening to and respecting the land of Chianti and cultivating, like his fellow countryman Leonardo, the spark of experimentation.
The body and the shelter: land rights and contemporary art. In conversation with Carsten Höller
Yesterday an academic background in Agricultural Sciences, today one of the most acclaimed artists on the international scene. Ossigeno 12 met Carsten Höller, who took us on a path - the one of his unmistakable imagery - to investigate the shelter offered by his art both to the human right to the land, and to the sacrosanct rights of the land.
Land of Enough: soil and intergenerational justice. In conversation with Alberto Pirni
What does the philosophical principle of intergenerational justice mean? We asked one of its noble fathers, the philosopher and professor Alberto Pirni, to find out how it fertilely grafts not only onto the abstract concept of morale, but also onto the concrete reality of the soil, in terms of sustainability and responsibility in the consumption of resources. Revolutionizing the alibi of Enough.
Veryverywhite: the water and mercury polyptych by Angelo Del Negro
The white surrounding the exterior of this Ossigeno issue also concludes its interior through the photographic series by Angelo Del Negro, immersed in the White Beaches of Rosignano, boldly renamed the Caribbean of Livorno. However, white sand and crystal clear water are nothing but the fake Paradise of the spill of bleaching agents by the nearby Solvay. Because appearances can sometimes be deceiving.
Divine drawing and human hand. A conversation with Nicola Mari
Climate change outlined through the eyes and traits of cartoonists. Together with Nicola Mari, Ossigeno inaugurates a path dealing with the subject through the strength and sensitivity of illustration.
The body and the shelter. Contemporary art in defense of human rights
The introductory chapter of a path of reflection that Ossigeno here undertakes on the intimate relationship between human rights and contemporary art, between the body and the shelter, because critical thought is humankind's greatest line of defense.