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Let’s start digging in the global cultural underground!
Goodmorning Beirut, Harare, Buenos Aires, Yerevan, Tokyo, Napoli, Dubai, Aruba, Ramallah, Lima, Kurdistan, Capetown, Tbilisi, Sao Paulo, Rio, Shanghai, Ahmedabad, Portland, Prishtina, Kobe, Kabul, Sarejevo!
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As we mentioned before, part of the Travel Agency will be a mass distributed, glossy travel brochure. A somewhat tacky guide (in as much it follows the typical templates of your average mass tourism brochure) that serves as a inspiring entree into the cultural underground of numerous cities around the world.
To get us started, we would like all of you to make your first contribution. Make it as ambitious as your city seems worth off.
Big Five Lists
How would you characterize your city and its art, culture and nightlife in four top 5 lists? (for example: top 5 live acts/venues/street art pieces of Beirut, top 5 influential art manifestos published in Sao Paulo, top 5 grungy moonshine bars of Tbilisi, top 5 underground art spaces of Shanghai, top 5 zines of Detroit).
Snapshots
What five images would picture the cultural underground in your city? The wild, the new, the imaginative, the classical, the astounding; the five (only five!) pictures that frame the underground and are the unmmistakable and unique ingredients of culture in your city.
Wardrobe
What are the essential accesoirs of underground identity? What makes a hipster, cool critic, punk intellectual, art star in your neighborhood? We would like you to get out of your comfort zone for this one an reassess the people around you for a moment; what are the five absolute must-haves?
These are just three formats that should get you started, and will enable us all to include your city in the Agency.
Funny and skull splitting intelligent; LEAVE YOUR LISTS AND REACTIONS BELOW!
Your sky team,
Joost, Merel, Christian
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Naples tips to survive enjoying the city
Five underground places in Naples:
1) visual and body art, performance, expandend cinema, events: The new location of FONDAZIONE MORRA, a private foundation led by Peppe Morra and his dautghter Raffaella Morra, placed into an old electric plant upside Piazza Dante (www.fondazionemorra.org). It is the house of Hermann Nitsch Museum with the collection of the Wien artist, but also guests other exhibits, workshops, art and music performances and the Independent Film Show, curated by Raffaella. It is the only one Expanded Cinema Festival in South Italy, surely one of the few in Europe.
2) exhibits, djing, cinema: Largo Baracche, no profit association located in Largo Baracche, Spanish Quartiers, Naples.
3) a free thinkers academy, off theatre, happy hours: Assise di Palazzo Marigliano, nomadic encounters on large-scale issues (as garbage, etc): a free academy of citizens located into the beautifil Palazzo Marigliano (Via S. Biagio dei Librai, 39) with sunday morning briefings open to the public. Do not miss it (with an Italian speaking friend). In the same building there is a nice little bar-theatre, named Tintadirosso, where sometime is possibile to find theatre and happy hour together.
4) live music: Casa della Musica, council concer hall (Via Barbagallo 115, Naples): a ugly sport building dressed as concert hall. The sole public one in the city devoted to all pop music.
5) off theatre: Teatro Elicantropo, Vico Gerolmini 3 into a XV Cent. Buiding, a little avantgarde theatre founded by Carlo Cerciello. It is not open everyday, check before coming.