OPEN CALL ‘SPORT’
Alexey Tikhonov
‘Street Football’
Street football is not really a sport. Yes, it’s sometimes about competition and kind of personal glory, but there
is a thing that really paces it apart - it doesn’t have to have designated place. In fact the opposite is true - street football is all about conquering urban landscape and converting it to something other, just for fun. It is especially interesting when recreational zones in the city are weak or underdeveloped, when children have to mark some corners as their own and make their own playgrounds. And that is in itself a ritual. By playing football they impose set of strange rules on different landscapes and declare that places as their own.
‘Primapersona’ is a biannual magazine that features unpublished autobiographical texts, whether they are memoirs or autobiographies, diaries or letters that are traces of life written by “ordinary people”. The magazine gives voice to the National Diary Archive of Pieve Santo Stefano in Italy, and moreover, to the general debate on the issues of autobiography.
In each issue, depending on the subject matter, are presented excerpts from these texts, from all periods of our recent history and from all regions of Italy. Their responses act as in an indirect dialogue with the study and theoretical reflections of those who, anthropologist or historian, sociologist and linguist, philosopher and writer, are convinced that writing is a gesture of inquiry. (to understand something more of ourselves).
Photography has an important role in this magazine. In each article, words torn from the diaries and autobiographical memories are accompanied by images in black and white. Photographs are carefully selected to dialogue with rather than interpret these words.
Urbanautica will take part in this new issue dedicated to Sports by suggesting a series of photographic projects that will be collected through an open call. In addition our editorial manager Steve Bisson will write a specific essay.
Submission have to bent sent to info@urbanautica.com. Deadline for submission March 4, 2013.