July 15, 2025
Como 22100
Italy
Fondazione Antonio Ratti is pleased to announce The Sun, a performance by Ed Atkins that will be held at Teatro Sociale in Como on July 15 at 7:30pm.
In this performance piece, Ed Atkins recites Gilbert Sorrentino's poem The Morning Roundup (1971), interspersed with songs. The Morning Roundup is a poem frustrated by the finitude of all things and the promise and failure of language to provide comfort or reparation. The poem's brevity reinforces this experience, so that each time Atkins recites it, it moves further away from his failed attempt to communicate sentiment: the weather, love, the past; that which is gone forever. There is the poem and then there are songs.
Ed Atkins will be Visiting Artist to Low Realisms, XXIX CSAV—Artists' Research Laboratory, guiding a group of 17 young artists from across the globe through workshops, readings, viewings, discussions, performances, and guest spots, thinking through some of the less traversed, more convoluted kinds of artistic realism.
Attendance is free with compulsory reservation.
For info and reservation please write to: far@fondazioneratti.org
