Wu Ming and the Art of radical resistance

‘Wu Ming and the art of radical resistance’ explores the ramifications of the creative work of Wu Ming, the Italian collective of militant and avant-garde storytellers, and on the experiences emanating from their active engagement in shaping a different narration of the last two decades of Italian underground cultural and political struggle. The story of Wu Ming starts in the 1990s, when, under the pseudonym and visionary project Luther Blissett, they published Q, a historical novel that became a best seller in Italy and was translated into several languages. A documentary on the Wu Ming Foundation, or rather on the strange ‘Italian’ case of collectives and communities, emerged from discussions on a blog of novelists, exploring paths and landscapes, guerrilla odonomy, J.R.R. Tolkien and fantasy, historiographic hoaxes, climate change, collective writing, colonialism, putting the collective practice of walking at the centre of storytelling…