“Once the writing movement became popular, almost every bookshop disposed a ‘graffiti section’ on their shelves, revealing how much this culture had been absorbed by society,” says Andrea Caputo, creator – or, in his words, “curator” – of “ALL CITY WRITERS”.
The title “ALL CITY WRITERS” describes a vast research project on the writing movement, focussing particularly on the process of its exportation from New York to the whole of Europe during the 80s. International crews, fanzine networks, inter-rail travelling are, among others, key chapters in which writers have become protagonists.
The whole project developed from the consideration that many of the stories that writers experience are just lost in time. Other than the pictures of their pieces, the adventures, and sensations a writer lives through often just disappear like so many other bits of oral culture. For that reason, “ALL CITY WRITTERS” contains the largest contribution of texts ever published in this field.
“ALL CITY WRITERS” tries to document the evolution and the consequences of a countercultural phenomenon that over the course of a few decades provoked a change in the aesthetics and the rules of communication of modern day society.