PEANUT FIELDS NEAR FRIENDSHIP
curated by Piersandra Di Matteo, Edoardo Lazzari, Annalisa Sacchi


What remains of a friendship?
What does it produce, transmit, transform?
What worlds does it make possible?

Peanut fields near friendship emerges as an inquiry into friendship understood not as a sentimental theme or a confessional device, but as a performative force, an invisible infrastructure, a form of cooperation that exceeds itself. A field of proximity in which thought, artistic practices, dissent, survival, and the possibility of imagining the world otherwise are constructed.

Beginning in May 2026, the project takes shape as a constellation of encounters, conversations, acts of listening, and crossings devoted to friendship as a relational magnitude capable of shaping modes of creation, transmission, and forms of life. Each event brings together a pair: two friends. These are neither interviews nor biographical testimonies, but public dispositifs in which friendship is examined as a working method, a support structure, a space of conflict, a form of critical proximity, and a mode of co-constructing thought.

Far from the idea of friendship as a private sphere detached from politics, Peanut fields near friendship moves through artistic, philosophical, and performative genealogies that recognize friendship as a practice of cooperation, dissidence, and the shared construction of the world. Friendship appears not merely as an emotional bond, but as the often invisible yet enduring infrastructure of artistic production, knowledge transmission, and intellectual life.

The project builds an oral and situated archive of affective and intellectual relationships: a repertoire of forms through which languages are transmitted, vulnerabilities are sustained, and shared imaginaries are generated. A landscape of proximity that leaves room for the possibility of exposing oneself, reciprocally, to the risk of transformation. Alongside the public encounters, the project extends into a series of radio formats and sound materials created in collaboration with Radio Papesse, giving rise to a dissemination of voices, fragments, dialogues, and relational constellations.