—exhibitions / public actions
La festa dei vivi (che riflettono sulla morte) / The celebration of the living (who reflect upon death), 13th ed., San Cesario di Lecce, IT, Nov 2, 2022
La festa dei vivi (che riflettono sulla morte) / The celebration of the living (who reflect upon death), 12th ed., a hidden place, Nov 2, 2021
La festa dei vivi (che riflettono sulla morte) / The celebration of the living (who reflect upon death), 11th ed., San Cesario di Lecce, IT, Nov 2, 2020
La festa dei vivi (che riflettono sulla morte) / The celebration of the living (who reflect upon death), 10th ed., Milano, IT, Nov 2, 2019
The Independent. Nesxt, MAXXI, Roma, IT, 2018
Lu cafausu: Uno specchio per cinque, Nesxt Independent Art Festival, Torino, IT, 2017
Leandro e Lu Cafausu, Musei di San Domenico, Forlì, IT, 2016
Gelosia, Kunsthalle Marcel Duchamp, Cully, CH, Apr-June 2014
The celebration of the living (who reflect upon death), 4th ed., Phoenix, AZ, Nov 2, 2013
The Celebration of the Living, public meeting and dinner, ASU Combine Studios, Phoenix, Arizona, US, 2012
Lu cafausu, public lecture, ASU Art Museum, Tempe, Arizona, US, 2012
Illustre Scultura Polimaterica, book launch, Libreria coop Ambasciatori, Bologna, IT, 2011 (cur. by Rita Correddu, Alice Militello; pres. by Francesca Marianna Consonni)
Click or Clash?, Galleria Bianconi, Milano, IT, 2011 (cur. by Julia Draganovic)
Italia Ora, Museo H.C. Andersen, Roma, IT, 2011 (cur. by LUISS Master of Art)
Dove finisce il destino? A-logicità dell’esistenza, Teatro Valle, Roma, IT, 2011 (cur. by Elena Abbiatici, Valentina G. Levy)
Investigations for the Celebration of the Living, San Cesario di Lecce, 2010 (PHOTO ALBUM)
Illustre Scultura Polimaterica, Link, Bologna, IT, Jan 2010 (PHOTO ALBUM)
Lu cafausu in Second Life, project developed with Stanford Humanities Lab, Stanford University, US, 2008
Forgotten Sculptors, Performa07, Sculpture Center, New York, US, Nov 2007
Forgotten Sculptors, Performa07, Sculpture Center, New York, US, Nov 2007 (PHOTO ALBUM)
Contemporary Passages: temporary roots and interweaving paths, Tent, Rotterdam, NL, May 2007 (cur. by Angela Serino)
A false luke, Vertexlist, New York, US, Jan 2007
Lu cafausu, San Cesario di Lecce, IT, Oct 2006
—books
Messaggi di ventura, la casa cafausica, 2022 (ita)
The Cafausica Tales, la casa cafausica, 2021 (eng)
Meeting Through Fasting. A one-day meditation about some plates and A Smiling Dictatorship, Pantagruel and the Kamikaze, The Need of Incorporating Goods, la casa cafausica, 2021 (eng)
Qualche storia cafausica / The Cafausica Tales, Fondazione Lac o Le Mon, 2018 (ita/eng)
Besides, it’s always the others who die, published by Verlag für moderne Kunst / Kunsthalle Marcel Duchamp, 2014 (eng)
Illustre Scultura Polimaterica, Comune di Bologna, 2011 (ita)
—texts
Uno specchio per cinque (A mirror for five), Artseverywhere, CA (five episodes) (eng)
Microclima: La festa dei vivi, 2 (ita) / Microclima: The celebration of the living, 2 (eng)
Rovine, scarti, ricordi, by Cecilia Guida (ita)
Meeting Through Fasting, for the «First international lunchtime summit» by 16beaver, NY
Lavorare gratis godendo (rubrica di economia) (ita)
Potluck June 17, 2008 with Basekamp, Philadelphia (skype chat history) (eng)
—bibliography
Gaglianò, P., Memento. L’ossessione del visibile, Postmedia Books, Milano 2016.
Madaro, L., La morte che non fa paura, Exibart, 2013.
Guida, C., Spatial Practices. Funzione pubblica e politica dell’arte nella società delle reti, Franco Angeli, Milano 2012.
Hamelijnck, R. – Terpsma, N. (ed. by), Italian Conversations. Art in the age of Berlusconi, Fucking Good Art/NERO/post editions, Roma/Rotterdam, 2012.
Pasini, F., L’intuizione è vita vissuta, «Exibart onpaper», 79, June 2012.
Rosso, P. (ed. by), Microclima, Venezia 2011.
Boragina, F. – Brivio, G. (ed. by), «boîte», 6, 2010.
Guida, C., Scarti, rovine e ricordi. L’uso nell’arte contemporanea, in Borrelli, D. – Di Cori, P. (ed. by), «Rovine Future. Contributi per ripensare il presente», Lampi di stampa, Milano 2010.
Brusarosco, P. – Farronato, M. (ed. by), Souvenir d’Italie. A nonprofit art story, Mousse Publishing, Milano 2010.
N.P., Forgotten Sculptors, at the Sculpture Center, «Art in America», Feb 2008.
—audio
Steve piccolo reading the first three episodes of Lu cafausu
Sarina Basta interviewing Cesare Pietroiusti on Forgotten Sculptors (streaming)
—ext. links
performa07, biennial of new art performance
—references
Gordon Knox, Stanford Humanities Lab
Premio Nctm e l’Arte, 2012
—the old website
lu cafausu 