Langue Lost, Language Found:

Poetic Interventions – Part 2

 

by Allison Grimaldi Donahue

with Riccardo Baruzzi, Paula Bozalongo, Derek MF Di Fabio, Rodrigo Hernández, Vincenzo Ostuni, Catherine Parsonage, June Scialpi

 

Thursday, June 25, 2026

from 6 pm to 9 pm

Società delle Api – Via Gregoriana 40, 00187 Rome

For this second event of Langue Lost, Language Found, presented by Società delle Api, Allison Grimaldi Donahue invites poets and artists to have conversations about each another’s work. Each pairing of poet and artist will examine questions common to all artistic practice and consider the eternal and continuous dialogue between these forms. Poets will share some poems and artists will present a work.

 

Paires in dialogue:

Allison Grimaldi Donahue & Catherine Parsonage (ENG)

Paula Bozalongo & Rodrigo Hernandez (ENG)

June Scialpi & Derek MF Di Fabio (ITA)

Vincenzo Ostuni & Riccardo Baruzzi (ITA)

 

The conversations will start at 6 pm and run in 30-minute sessions.

Registration required at info@societadelleapi.org

Limited capacity. 

 

The series Langue Lost, Language Found: Poetic Interventions is conceived as a space for exchange between artistic practices and writing through performances, readings, and workshops. Unfolding throughout the summer, it invites Italian and international artists to explore the collective dimensions of poetry, while emphasizing its accessibility and its presence in everyday life.

Full program

22 May

25 June

9 July

 

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES

Allison Grimaldi Donahue (1984, USA) is the author of Comporci (edizioni enemble, 2026) and The History of Breathing (Diaphanes, 2025), and the translator of Self-Portrait by Carla Lonzi (Divided, 2021). Recently, she has presented poetry performances, installations, and collective actions at the Guggenheim Foundation Venice, Luci d’Artista Turin, MACTE Termoli, Museo Madre Naples, Kunsthalle Bern, Sonnenstube Lugano, Short Theatre Rome, and Prosopopoeia Vienna. She is the recipient of the 14th Italian Council Award for Talent Development and the 2026 Premio Gallarate. She holds a PhD in Philosophy from the European Graduate School and lives in Bologna.

June Scialpi (1998, Italy) is a writer and translator. She published Il Golem. L’interruzione (Fallone Editore, 2022), which won the Premio Flaiano Poesia Under 35, as well as the chapbooks Condotta del simbionte (with illustrations by Majid Bita, La Collana Isola, 2023) and in mezzo ai giorni (i) dati (Zacinto/Biblion, 2024). Her short stories have appeared in various journals and in the anthology Stasera faremo cadere il cielo (Zona42, 2024). Her research interests include queer studies and transfeminism. She co-authored La promessa della luna. Genealogie di Sailor Moon(Moscabianca, 2025) and contribute to a range of online publications, including Lucy – Sulla cultura, L’altrosessuale, Ghinea, MediumPoesia, and lay0ut magazine. She translated Anne Boyer’s Garments Against Women (Tic, 2025). Her most recent book is Retriever (Tic, 2025).

Vincenzo Ostuni (1970, Italy) was born in Rome, where he studied (earning a degree in Psychology and a PhD in Philosophy) and where he continues to live. He worked first as an editor for minimum fax, then as a non-fiction editor and later editorial director at Fazi. Since 2008 he has overseen fiction and non-fiction at Ponte alle Grazie, where he has served as co-editorial director since 2020. In the 1990s he founded the Laboratorio Aperto di Ricerca Poetica and was part of the editorial board of the journal Dàrsena. In 2004 he published Faldone zero-otto (Oèdipus). In 2009 he was among the winners of the Premio Delfini. Faldone zero-venti was published by Ponte Sisto in 2012. Selections from Faldone zero-trentasette appeared in 2014 under the title Faldone zero-trentanove. Estratti 2007–2010, I (Aragno), while a further selection was published by Oèdipus in 2018 as Faldone zero-trentasette. Estratti, II. In 2014 he completed Faldone zero-cinquantanove, novantotto-novantanove; excerpts from this work appeared as Deleuze, o dell’essere chiunque chiunque(Tic Edizioni, 2019) and Faldone zero-cinquantanove, novantotto-novantanove. Estratti, II (Aragno, 2022). Il Saggiatore published an excerpt from the subsequent fifth version of Faldone in 2019 under the title Il libro di G.; a second excerpt, Opportune premesse, was published by Zacinto Edizioni in 2022. The sixth version was published in its entirety in March 2025 under the title Faldone (Il Saggiatore). A seventh version is currently in progress. Ostuni also edited Poeti degli anni Zero, an anthology of thirteen contemporary authors (originally published in L’Illuminista, no. 30, 2010, and reissued in book form by Ponte Sisto in 2011). He has been among the organizers of the literary series ESCargot, one of the promoters of Generazione TQ, an editor of Caffè illustrato, and a member of the collective C17, which organized the eponymous conference on communism in Rome.

 

Catherine Parsonage (1989, UK) is an artist and educator, graduating from the Royal College of Art in 2013. Catherine was the Freelands Painting Fellow at Bath Spa University 2021, a studio program fellow at Castro Projects, Rome 2018, and the 2016-7 Sainsbury Scholar at the British School at Rome. Selected exhibitions and projects include Invisible foundations FORM ICA, Bath, (2024) Your love is like a heatwave, 16:9 Billboard, Kingsgate Project Space, London, (2023) Speed Date, Oceans Apart Gallery, Manchester, (2023) Triangle, Freelands Foundation, London, (2022), Anecdotes & Attitude, Michael Pennie Gallery, Bath, (2021) Notes in Green, Clima, Milan, (2019) and Convivium, Bosse and Baum, London. (2017-8).

 

Rodrigo Hernández ( Mexico, 1983) lives in Mexico City. Studied at the Akademie der bildenden Künste in Karlsruhe, and at Jan Van Eyck Academie in Maastricht. He has been a fellow of the Laurenz-Haus Stiftung in Basel (2015), Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Cité International des Arts in Paris (2016), Istanbul Modern (2019) and ArtExplora, Paris (2025). His recent solo exhibitions include: Nonaka-Hill, Kyoto; Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York; Antenna Space, Shanghai; Wattis Institute, San Francisco US; Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover, D; Museo Jumex, Mexico City, MX; Swiss Institute/Offsite, New York, US; Museo de Arte Moderno, Medellin, CO; Kunsthalle Kohta, Helsinki, FI; CIAJG, Guimaraes, PT; Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam, NL; SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia, USA; Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros, Mexico City; Pîvo, São Paulo; Kunsthalle Winterthur, CH; Midway Contemporary, Minneapolis; SALTS, Basel; Kim?, Riga ; Heidelberger Kunstverein, Heidelberg; Kurimanzutto, Mexico City; Museo Universitario del Chopo, Mexico City; Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht; Parallel Oaxaca, Oaxaca, MX. His work has been exhibited in venues such as: CCA Vilnius; Museo Jumex; Kunstmuseum Den Haag; Kunsthalle Münster; Göteborg Konsthall; Istanbul Modern; PinchukArtCenter, Kiev; GaMec, Bergamo; ZKM Museum für Neue Kunst, Karlsruhe; Kunstverein Nürnberg; Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht; Gladstone Gallery, Brussels; Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City; Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow; Museum Haus Konstruktiv, Zürich;, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel.

 

Derek MF Di Fabio (Italy, 19987) (they/them) was born near Milan and lives in Berlin. Their research investigates how knowledge is transmitted between bodies, generations and environments, questioning the power structures that shape these exchanges. Through workshops, sculptures, performances, sound works, scenographies, walks and events, their practice produces experiences that can be reactivated as shared memory, beyond fixed notions of identity, authorship and place. A graduate of the Dutch Art Institute, they developed a thesis on prison abolition as a practice of quantum transfeminism. They have collaborated with the collectives Abolitionist Jelly, Cherimus and Motel Lucie. They exhibit regularly with Almanac Projects; recent presentations include projects at Museo Castello di Rivoli, Museo Madre in Naples and MAMBO – Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna.

 

Paula Bozalongo (Spain, 1991) Bozalongo’s work operates at the intersection of art, architecture, and literature. Her practice explores the potential of fiction within this shared territory, as well as the incorporation of affective readings and discursive reconfigurations into scientific methodologies. She graduated from the Madrid School of Architecture (ETSAM), Master’s Degree in Architecture (2020) and a Master’s Degree in Advanced Architectural Design from the same school. She currently develops her professional practice at Costura, Architectural Affairs Agency. Bozalongo was awarded the XXIX Hiperión Poetry Prize (2014) for her debut collection, Diciembre y nos besamos, as well as the UNESCO Bridges of Struga Award, presented to an outstanding first poetry book. Other publications include La piel de la Naranja (Hiperión, Madrid, 2023), El viento arrasará las autopistas (Mexico, 2017), Dreaming is Getting It Right in the Past (Poland, 2016), and Como una piel vencida (2015). Her poems have also been featured in several anthologies of contemporary Spanish poetry, including Nacer en otro tiempo (Renacimiento, 2016) and Re-generación (Valparaíso, 2015).

 

Riccardo Baruzzi (Italy, 1976) Baruzzi’s research is structured around the physical and poetic principles of drawing and sound. The artist born in Lugo in 1976 paints drawings and draws paintings to reveal the origin of images, tracing back to the essence as signs. In this operation of analysis and subsequent synthesis of the hidden structure of things, at times Riccardo Baruzzi involves the human element: the artist’s performance works call for the participation of art students, collectors, gallerists, assigned a role of interaction with the display of the painting or the very moment of its creation. Recent exhibitions include: Tri Lus, TOAST Project Space, Firenze, IT (solo, 2024); Rattles and Something Else, SUTURA, Torino, IT (2024); Portraits, IFT – Istituto Fisicoterapico di Torino, Torino, IT (live perfor- mance, 2024); Cinque Punti, Arena Paolini – GAM, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Torino, IT (live performance in collaboration with soprano Elena Busni, 2024); Il biondo, Traffic Festival (La quin- ta rotazione della terra), Teatro Mario Tiberini, San Lorenzo in Campo, Pergola (PU), IT (live session, 2023); My Valley, Galerie Mark Müller, Zurich, CH (2023); Il margine del cielo e della terra, Galleria d’Arte Contemporanea Osvaldo Licini, Ascoli Piceno, IT (2022); Resonance, with Pieter Vermeersch, P420, Bologna, IT (duo, 2021). He lives and works in Bologna.