Occulto affirms the cultural value of scientific knowledge and the potential of an interdisciplinary approach opened to deviance and irony. Its research also questions past and present attempts to find shortcuts to knowledge (and power), the fascination towards the irrational and revealed truths.
What lies behind the insurmountable gap dividing humanities and science?
Occulto Magazine has been founded in 2009 by Alice Cannava and Irene Lumpa Rossi. Laura Nozza has joined the team in 2011 as co-editor. Occulto main editorial office is based in AC Galerie in Berlin Pankow.
Occulto Issue Zero was released as a self-produced experiment on October 2009: a small, stapled, glossy magazine featuring articles about astronomy, mathematics, history of religion, parascientific theories and an artist's project, a series of collages by Alessio delli Castelli.
Sie Leben, the catalogue-fanzine of the homonymous exhibition at AC Galerie, was released on July 2010, featuring five artists contributes and three unreleased texts.
On March 2011 Alice Cannava co-curated with Federica Rossella the first Occulto Fest, a two days festival featuring a series of sound performances, a group exhibition with a focus on video works, and a workshop.
Occulto Issue √-1 has been released in November 2011.
Occulto research and work will keep on developing and producing publications, shows and events in Berlin, Milano and Turin.
