Over 30 years since its establishment, Slam Jam, street culture brand leader, is opening the doors of its archive for the first time with an exclusive project devised by Nationhood. The project comprises a new location in Slam Jam’s headquarters in Ferrara, and a consultable online atlas stemming from an experimental publishing plan focused on […]

We call it avant-pop is a site-specific video installation by Nationhood inspired by the 20-year history of Club To Club, the festival recognized all over Europe as one of the greatest expressions of club culture and sound experimentation. C0C 2020 is an authentic performative manifesto based on an openness to new approaches to artistic production […]

Archives of Basilicata is a book series devised and edited by Nationhood and published by Humboldt Books. The monographic publications, commissioned by the Matera-Basilicata 2019 Foundation on occasion of Matera European Capital of Culture 2019 and part of the wider I-DEA project, are centred around important documentary heritage from national archives and private collections that […]

The Unreal Issue is a remodulation of the relationship existing between the human perception of history, the influence that the context exercises on it and the role that the practice of archiving plays in the processes to document and analyse events. Like our current tendency to complain of the emergence of an excessively subjective component […]

Documentation Technique du Présent is an exhibition curated by Anna Planas and Pierre Hourquet, authored and executed by Nationhood for the Les Rencontres de la Photographie festival in the city of Arles, France, in 2019. What the curators had proposed as an opportunity to involve the city’s historical archives instead saw the birth of an […]

Archives of Basilicata is a book series devised and edited by Nationhood and published by Humboldt Books. The monographic publications, commissioned by the Matera-Basilicata 2019 Foundation on occasion of Matera European Capital of Culture 2019 and part of the wider I-DEA project, are centred around important documentary heritage from national archives and private collections that involve […]

Atlante Immateriale is the project presented by Nationhood to open the new season of the Circolo del Design in Turin. The project consisted of an exhibition and a publication dedicated to the role of artisanship in contemporary society, its relations with design and its repercussions on the ground. The exhibition is a homage to intangible […]

‘The Americana Issue’: or, speaking of twentieth-century America to get an outline of the present and investigating modern America to understand the contemporary nation. For this third issue, the editors immediately started off by stating how outward-looking and present outside itself America is. This form of ‘dispersion’ of the American state in Western culture and […]

Prospettiva is an annual catalogue commissioned by Fondazione Fiera Milano. The project is a bridge between the public and hitherto unseen archive materials so that everyone can enjoy the foundation’s historical assets. The topic of this first issue deals with the development of Fiera Milano. The period under examination goes from 1907 to 2005: 98 […]

The idea for this issue sprang from a reply letter written by Elio Petri to a journalist in 1970, which was found during research in the Museo Nazionale del Cinema historical archive. In the letter, the great director reflects on the anthropological profile of the authoritarian structure, taking into consideration the function of the police […]

Progettare is a quarterly magazine published by Fiera Milano Media. The periodical, which first appeared in 1979, is the leading publication aimed at Italian designers and technicians who work in the main sectors of industrial design and mechatronics. Over forty years on, the magazine continues to be the biggest source of information and analysis for workers […]

Automazione Oggi is a periodical published by Fiera Milano Media devoted to in-depth analysis of industrial automation processes. Since 1983 the magazine has been one of the most wide-ranging focal points for the sector in Italy, offering technicians a vast assortment of contents such as surveys, editorials, panoramas, round tables and interviews on the development […]

ARCHIVIO is a biannual magazine of contemporary culture published by Promemoria. Upon its debut in 2017, the project, entirely edited by Nationhood, made a splash in the publishing field as the first magazine in the world built entirely from archive materials. An archive is a living place. Shuffling its pieces allows us to understand the […]