BASILISCO

 
 

Basilisk / Basilisk / Василиск (or How to Run on Water)
by Franco Ariaudo
Viaindustriae publishing / Colli publishing platform, 2018

Through a series of instructions about how to run on the water, analyzed from different perspectives and multidisciplinary fields, the book is the very basis for a broader discussion about the challenges of transforming anything that appears impossible to accomplish by human beings into something feasible, just by shifting the point of view. When, how and in what way is the image of walking on water in different religions used and expressed at the theological level? What animal species are able to perform this action and in which particular conditions are they forced to do it? What are the physical forces put in place and what are the prerequisites that would allow a person to run on water?
 

Texts by: Cristiano Ghibaudo (professional coach), Riccardo Mangione (project manager), Daniele Sciannandrone (phisicist), Gianni Magrin (theologian), Massimo Delfino e Marco Isaia (herpetologist and ecologist).
Illustration by: Franco Ariaudo.
Graphic design by: Lina Ozerkina & Lucía Garza (Friends Make Books).
Risograph, digital and offset print.
300 copies, 144 pages, Italian/English/Russian.