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baracca (baˈrakka)

feminine noun

translations: hut
(pejorative) hovel
(informal, pejorative, oggetto) piece of junk

mandare avanti la baracca to keep things going
come va la baracca? how are you managing?
piantare baracca e burattini to throw everything up

baraka

noun ba·ra·ka \bəˈräkə\

translation: a blessing that is regarded in various Eastern religions as an indwelling spiritual force and divine gift inhering in saints, charismatic leaders, and natural objects

Baracca

to have no fixed abode; to weld artistic to curatorial practice; to explore and propagate a paradigm of art that descibes the 'underground' or less visible segment of contemporary art as a type of Folklore, that is, a living body of practices, ritual, and aesthetics that subtly shapes and informs the larger body of accepted culture; to fail; to fail better; to make catalogues for
exhibitions that do not exist; to celebrate ten years of existence in  the eleventh year of existence; to have no clue about good taste, or manners;
to try; to try again; to make the same mistake over and over again until it fits the circumstances ; to be insecure, but be bloody-minded in the resolve to be insecure; to get it right; to get it exactly wrong; to get it, by hook or by crook; to wilfully misunderstand the obvious; to restate the improbable in terms of the absurd; to have the cake, and make others eat it; to know when to stop, but ignore



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