Arrigo Lora Totino (Turin, 1928-2016) is one of the greatest interpreters and exegetes of international concrete and sound poetry. He is a very well-known and respected performer and has produced numerous publications and recordings connected to the work of neo-avant-garde artists around the world, participating in and organizing festivals, study sessions, events, and sound poetry evenings.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n The collaboration and partnership between Arrigo Lora Totino and the Morra Foundation began in the late 1980s when the Turin-based author took part in the \u201cTemperature Flegree\u201d event organized by Studio Morra at the Solfatara in Pozzuoli and the Cuma Acropolis, an event attended by poets and scholars such as Henri Chopin, Lamberto Pignotti, Eugenio Miccini, and Corrado Costa. Here, Lora Totino presented his performance \u201cFluenti traslati\u201d, for which he published the performance directions in 1988 in a volume of the same title curated by edizioni Morra. A year later, in 1989, Totino repeated the performance of \u201cFluenti traslati\u201d for his personal exhibition of verbal-visual works held at Studio Morra in via Calabritto.<\/p>\n After this first intense collaboration, Totino took part in a new project organized by Studio Morra curated by Luciano Caruso, \u201cSerate in onore di Cangiullo\u201d, an event dedicated to the Neapolitan Futurist poet Francesco Cangiullo. Totino took part in a round table discussion with Stelio Maria Martini (8 May) and Luciano Caruso, marking the release of the volume \u201cCangulliana\u201d (Belforte\/edizioni Morra, edited by Caruso himself). He also presented a mime declamation performance (9 May) dedicated to the Futurist free-word and pentagrammed tables.<\/p>\n In 2003 he accepted Giuseppe Morra\u2019s invitation to bring one of his own performances to the Morra Foundation\u2019s monographic exhibition dedicated to the Living Theatre: \u201cLabirinti dell’Immaginario\u201d (curated by Achille Bonito Oliva, as part of the \u201cAnnali delle Arti\u201d project), held in the Castel dell\u2019Ovo in Naples.<\/p>\n Lastly, in 2014, the Morra Foundation dedicated a solo exhibition to Totino and Henri Chopin as part of the \u201cLa scrittura totale\/La Parola totale\u201d (\u201cThe Total Writing\/The Total Word\u201d) project, an extensive and in-depth four-stage exhibition dedicated to authors and international movements linked to visual poetry, a project set up by Giuseppe Morra in the underground spaces of the Library of the Nitsch Museum as part of \u201cProgetto XXI\u201d, supported by the Donnaregina Foundation for Contemporary Arts.<\/p>\n In 2018 the Morra Foundation acquired Totino\u2019s private archive and dedicating a special area to it \u2013 the Arrigo Lora Totino Collection \u2013 at the Casa Morra Archive of Contemporary Art, entrusting the research and curatorship to Domenico Mennillo.<\/p>\n The Arrigo Lora Totino Collection<\/strong><\/p>\n The Arrigo Lora Totino Collection contains materials from the artist\u2019s private archive covering a period from 1964 to 2016, the year of the artist\u2019s death in Turin. In line with Totino\u2019s original arrangements, the Collection has been divided into the following sections by theme:<\/p>\n Correspondence; Professional Documents; Printed Papers; Graphic Documentation; Photography; Audio and Video Records; ALT’s Private Library.<\/b><\/p>\n