One Year Performance
Performance, notes exchange, book
One Year Performance series is a long‑term performative and editorial project conceived to unfold over the course of ten years. Co‑written by Cinzia Delnevo and Shervin Kianersi Haghighi, artists living and working between Italy and Belgium, the series is grounded in a daily writing practice as a shared artistic gesture.
Each volume gathers short sentences noted down every day for one year, in the artists’ respective mother tongues (Italian and Farsi), with an English preface. The daily act of writing activates an “invisible” and long‑lasting performance, which finds in the book its form of sedimentation and public restitution through independent, limited‑edition publications.
One Year Performance and One Annoying Moment Each Day
by Cinzia Delnevo and Shervin Kianersi Haghighi
preface by Phyllis Dierick
la centrale edizioni, series la c., vol. 43, August 2023
112 pages, no illustrations, b/w
paperback, 14 × 20 cm
languages: English, Farsi, Italian
The first book in the series collects, day after day, the recording of an “annoying” moment experienced by the two artists over the course of a year. The sentences, noted daily and shared at a distance, build a minimal archive of the most disturbing everyday moments, in which personal experiences, different cultural contexts, and a synchronized temporality intertwine. The repetition of the gesture transforms annotation into a performative practice, while the book becomes a space of accumulation and silent comparison.
One Year Performance and One Pleasing Moment Each Day
by Cinzia Delnevo and Shervin Kianersi Haghighi
preface by Elio Ticca
la centrale edizioni, series la c., vol. 44, May 2025
112 pages, no illustrations, b/w
paperback, 14 × 20 cm
languages: English, Farsi, Italian
The second volume focuses on the “pleasing” moments of daily life. Through the same rigorous and repetitive structure, the artists construct a counter‑archive made of micro‑events, sensations, and minimal attention. The practice of daily writing, shared and silent, activates an intimate and long‑lasting performance that offers a sensitive reading of lived time and of the value of ordinary experience.
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A full year of annotations dedicated to “Funny” moments has now been completed and will constitute the third volume of the series, currently in editorial development.