Libro Vivo, curated by Saul Marcadent, is a festival which involved together for three days a group of authors from the Italian cultural and editorial scene in the library of the Iuav University of Venice. The Libro Vivo is a non-definitive object, designed as an unstable format, associated with dangerous contents, which expresses a system of rules as much as the pleasure of forcing them.

The publishing experiences gathered by Libro Vivo act in a gradient between the self-curatorial hardness that the involved authors impose and the surprises generated by the new dispositions of the contents and their circulation. Libro Vivo enhances the editorial nature of a library that – coordinated by Mario Lupano – frequently acts as a magazine or publishing house and uses as an interface the relationships and authorial processes of Stefano Graziani, Luca Trevisani, Fabio Quaranta, Ilenia Caleno, involved in teaching and in IUAV research and used to solicit the communication devices of their research: actions, exhibitions and books.

The visual identity of the festival – designed by Superness in collaboration with Giovanni Spera, he still follows an autonomous project, associating scans of books sampled by OBA (open by appointment) to keywords extracted from the search for the guests.