Shortly before his murder in 1975, Pasolini published a series of letters addressed to an imaginary student named Gennariello, a young boy from Naples, in the Italian newspaper Il Corriere della sera.
The Indiani Metropolitani (Metropolitan Indians) were the so-called creative wing of the Italian students movement who often dressed up like Native Americans.
This essay was originally commissioned by the Office for Contemporary Art Norway (OCA) within the lecture series “The State of Things,” as part of the official Norwegian representation in the 54th edition of the Venice Biennale and it was published in the volume The State of Things (OCA and Koenig Books London, 2012), edited by Marta Kuzma, Pablo Lafuente and Peter Osborne. The State of Things publication is available in bookstores, at OCA Norway, and internationally at Koenig Books .