MU N. 04 – Snow Crash. This new issue opens up to the theme of snow, considered through the possibility of its extinction, its biomorphic transformation, and its resonance within both the collective and individual spheres.

Inspired by the Il Senso Della Neve exhibition, Snow Crash takes its title from Neal Stephenson’s 1994 novel of the same name, which described — far more accurately than could have been imagined at the time — the state of the world today.

“Snow represents the elegy of subtle layering. That is, something that can melt away without leaving a trace, or something that can compact itself into a solid foundation. In this sense, MU — even with a delicate and complex theme such as this one — extends, in rarefied and never literal terms, the journey undertaken with the group exhibition Il Senso Della Neve, conceived for MUDEC: going beyond, both in terms of content and dissemination.”
Marina Pugliese, MUDEC Director

“The new climatic era, with the disappearance of snow and the shrinking of glaciers, is only a starting point. And the Lynchian ‘television snow’ of the last century has become the visual snow (‘snow vision,’ technically speaking) now affecting the residual clarity of our eyesight, saturated by the millions of images that have flooded our eyes for decades up to the present day. Science fiction books and films were the only ones capable of understanding the real future scenario, as usual. Everyone eventually reached the conclusion that, deep down, we no longer want to fully understand what is happening. After all, we enjoy remaining in this cognitive fog (‘brain fog,’ or therefore ‘snow fog’), and we are beginning to love this sort of snow-covered brain. It is a mode of survival, for as long as possible.”
Carlo Antonelli, MU Editorial Director

Featuring: Chiara Barzini, Andrew Berardini, Björk, Mark Borthwick (with a special project), AA Bronson, Tommaso Calarco, Federico Campagna, Pierpaolo Caputo, Abby Chen, Massimo De Carlo, Elena Filipovic, Peter Fischli, Elisa Giuliano, David Hammons, Tim Ingold, Katya Inozemtseva, Saodat Ismailova, Summer Mei-Ling Lee, Andrea Lissoni, Ari Marcopoulos (with a special project), Chus Martinez, Alessandro Oldani, Philippe Parreno, Telmo Pievani, Paola Pivi, Sara Rizzo, Edoardo Sanguineti, Chiharu Shiota, Andrea Staid, Neal Stephenson, Bruce Sterling, Patricia Urquiola, and Enrico Vanzina.