Rita (she/her) - Berlin - 2022

We first met officially through Michele Servadio (we must have crossed paths already as AKA and the screen printing place was a block away). Since then we have been landing on the same pages in several iterations.

She moved to Berlin after finishing art school in Venice (then only speaking Italian and French but picking up English and immediately went to school for German). A punk drawn to noise, squats, community and performance (has a degree in all of it surely) stayed for 10 years then gypsied away a year ago or so now.

Over the years I’ve gladly taken care of her dog Pooka (being a dog myself in another life certainly). She assisted me in producing the last full season of UNIV ERSE (of which I still have much of). She saved enough form our time in collaboration (and as a cleaner) to put on a free weekend festival in Palermo. Sometime later recovery brought us closer again (as it often does).

There’s a lot shared in this episode as we sit in the studio (until my neighbour rings the klinger to collect a package and Pooka decides he’s been patient enough).

See you soon, safe travels!