TAM Pub grew out of the TAM Festival project. If the festival is a moment of physical encounter, TAM Pub is the space where those encounters take shape through a shared publication.
We approach publishing as a collaborative working environment: a place where artists, designers and cultural practitioners can meet, exchange practices and experiment with printing techniques, materials and editorial approaches.
Rather than a finished object, the publication becomes a testing ground — a space to explore ideas, collaborations and new ways of making books.
The first publication begins with Etruscan culture, to which the TAM project maintains a direct connection. Tham, the Etruscan word for “to build”, is not only the origin of the festival’s name but also a guiding method: bringing together different practices, forms of knowledge and perspectives to generate new ways of seeing.
Etruschi Misti revisits a selection of Etruscan artefacts through the illustrations and ceramic works of Livia De Magistris, placing ancient forms in dialogue with contemporary sensibilities.
The zine opens with a contribution by Giulia Basilissi — conservator-restorer at the Archaeological Museum of Florence — reflecting on the continuous relationship between the study of the past and contemporary artistic research.
Like the festival, TAM Pub exists thanks to a network of independent realities that support the project. Among them is Todomododilà, which made it possible to print the publication in its risograph studio.
TAM Pub is curated by the TAM Festival team — Livia De Magistris, Edoardo Cantarella and Elisa Basilissi — and each publication develops through an ongoing dialogue with different artists and collaborators.
It is precisely in these encounters between practices and contexts that the project finds its purpose: creating moments of exchange and cross-pollination that open up new perspectives on the present.
