{"product_id":"virus-il-punk-e-rumore-punk-is-noise-1982-1989-by-marco-teatro-giacomo-spazio","title":"Virus: il punk è rumore (Punk is Noise) 1982-1989 by Marco Teatro \/ Giacomo Spazio","description":"\u003cp\u003eGOODFELLAS \/ SPITTLE 2021\u003cbr\u003e\nBOUND PAPERBACK - 560 PAGES\u003cbr\u003e\n11.5\" x 1.5\" x 8.5\"\u003cbr\u003e\nIntro and Manifesto in both english\/italian language\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eVirus, Il Punk È Rumore is a historically powerful book chronicling the iconic Italian DIY punk and hardcore scene that emerged from Milan in the 1980s\u003cbr\u003e\nThe anarchic Punk collective Virus is and was one of the most important and radical collectives ever formed in Italy, in an anarchic place among the most well-known worldwide.\u003cbr\u003e\nThis book is a collection of various materials: posters, fanzines, and fliers with the signature of the Virus collective, which the authors of this volume managed to retrieve.\u003cbr\u003e\nAll the materials present were made public and distributed freely during the years of its impetuous presence: from 1982, the year of its creation, to its final closure in 1989. Reproduced in chronological order, they retrace with no need for additional captions a chronicle of the city of Milan and the Italian province in the 80s. Graphic simplicity and aesthetic roughness are an integral part of the content narrated in the lyrics. The name Virus is remembered, not only as synonymous with PUNK, but above all as a real place for experimenting with alternatives to the system.\u003cbr\u003e\nLovers of graphics, social history, punk, anarchy, underground stories.\u003cbr\u003e\nVirus – Il Punk è Rumore. 1982-1989\"\" is a visually powerful and historically essential documentary book that chronicles the rise of one of the most radical punk collectives in Italy. Curated by Marco Teatro and Giacomo Spazio, this extensive hard-cover volume documents the activities of the Milan-based Virus collective between 1982 and 1989 — years that marked a turning point for Italian and European underground culture.\u003cbr\u003e\nAcross more than 500 pages, the book presents an extraordinary chronological archive of original materials produced and distributed by Virus: flyers, fanzines, posters, political leaflets, concert announcements, manifestos, and graphic ephemera, reproduced in their original raw form. The visual language is uncompromisingly DIY — photocopied textures, aggressive typography, collage aesthetics — embodying the very essence of punk as noise, resistance, and collective action.\u003cbr\u003e\nCentral to the book is the documentation of the most influential punk and hardcore bands of the Italian and international scene that gravitated around Virus and performed in its space. Among the groups featured are Negazione, Wretched, Indigesti, Raw Power, Crash Box, Peggio Punx, alongside international acts that passed through Milan’s underground circuit. These bands are not presented as isolated music projects, but as part of a wider network of political activism, self-managed spaces, and anti-commercial cultural production.\u003cbr\u003e\nOn the book’s cover, there is the stencil with the anarchist\/punx A and a broken syringe because one of the first posters published by the collective 1981 was for a meeting “against heroin” – a radical attitude that distinguished Virus: “It was one of the first spaces to take on the problem of heroin, which in Milan in those years was a big issue,” Teatro explains.\u003cbr\u003e\n“The attitude of those who frequented the collective was what we call ‘Crassian’ (from Crass, the English punk rock band), and it was linked to the hardcore music movement. There was no fashion punk. To be punk in Italy at that time, you had to be radical.”\u003cbr\u003e\nTeatro says that they also wanted the book to be graphical: “It is difficult to explain, but the book has an irresistible force. The images are mostly particularly ugly collages, improvised, made by people who, as it were, did not have an academic style (laughs). You feel the spontaneity. There were no colours of the psychedelic generation, and there were still no alternative ones like the graffiti of the hip hop generation. In the decade of punk, black and white dominated.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePLEASE NOTE: Virus – Il Punk è Rumore. 1982–1989 is a bilingual book (Italian and English). All introductory and contextual texts are presented in both languages, while the main body of the book consists of original archival materials—flyers, posters, fanzines, and political leaflets—reproduced in their original language, exactly as they were distributed at the time. This makes the book fully accessible to an international audience while preserving the authenticity of the historical documents.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e- Marco Teatro (Milan, 1968) is an artist, painter, and set designer. He joined the punk collective Virus in 1985, and in 1988 he was one of the founders of the Cox 18 social center. He was the creator and curator of the ten editions of the Happening Internazionale Underground, an annual event that animated the city of Milan from 1993 to 2003. He is among the pioneers of Milanese street art and in 2021 he wrote the book 'La Guerra Dei Segni – Un Altra Atoria Dell'Arte' .\u003cbr\u003e\n- Giacomo Spazio (Milan, 1957) is an artist and graphic designer. Mentally punk, he is constantly entangled in adventures within the alternative sphere. His editorial works include Pulp Libri, Rumore, Vinile, and Decoder. In 2002 he wrote 'A New Loop' , a short audiovisual essay on music, and in 2006, 'Fuc\/K\/H\/sia, Manual of Graphic Counter-Culture for the New Generations' . Since 1982, he has never stopped publishing fanzines.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"RADIATION","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56563849003174,"sku":"9788899770235","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/0237\/5590\/files\/virus.png?v=1780455024","url":"https:\/\/citynoiserecords.com\/products\/virus-il-punk-e-rumore-punk-is-noise-1982-1989-by-marco-teatro-giacomo-spazio","provider":"CITY NOISE ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}