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OHT confronts a classic of Western literature; Frankenstein or the modern Prometheus. Moving around the time of the experiment, OHT makes partial and vertical lunges into the text, without limits of form, language and duration. The novel becomes material to be examined, dissected, re-stitched, a body available for different experiments: a performance, a reading session, an installation, an EP, an aborted radio drama, a filmic adaptation and finally a book are generated as parts of the same experimentation that proceeds horizontally through the Shelley’s story to investigate its multiple ramifications.

Frankenstein. If You Love Solitude You Don't Love Freedom is the publication that brings together OHT's research and Filippo Andreatta's travels to the monster’s places.

A book as a monstrous object: grafted between the pages of Mary W. Shelley appear the materials produced by the encounter between OHT and the novel. They are pieces, fragments of works whose life takes place elsewhere and which here interact with Shelley's original text exploding it.

year

2024

durata

∞

genre

book

press

coming soon

credits

Frankenstein. If You Love Solitude, You Don't Love Freedom
by OHT — Office for a Human Theatre

Texts by
Filippo Andreatta, Kelsey Camacho,
Lucrezia Calabrò Visconti, Dehlia Hannah

production history

2.XI.2024 > Libreria Bodoni Spazio B, Turin
4.XII.2024 > bruno, Venice
13.III.2025 > Leporello Bookshop, Rome
28.IV.2025 > Adad books, Athens
15.V.2025 > MOTELSALIERI, Milan
20.V.2025 > Manifatture Knos, Lecce
19.IX.2025 > Centro Pecci, Prato

number of copies

600