Antonio Gagliano regularly resorts to drawing and writing as tools to research the different ways in which knowledge is produced, organised and disseminated. His work mixes visualisation and editing methods inherent to the formal structures of knowledge (the university, archives, television, etc.) with dynamic or emerging phenomena (Internet viral explosions, oral history, etc.) and he reworks them in order to intervene in their regulatory processes. The link of remote historical events and images, the creation of fantasy tales or the critical exploration of the conventions of information dissemination (cartography, articles, PowerPoint presentations, readings, fanzines, etc.) are some of the strategies that he uses.

His proposal under "Marginalia" has been to initiate "The Free Mimesis Project", an experimental editorial prototype designed to release and circulate materials "locked" in archives by means of their being copied by hand as drawings. In this first episode, the project will tackle a selection of materials from the vast set of documents (reading notes, press cuttings, post cards, etc.) that were initially found among the pages of the books that make up the Pepe Espaliú Library and were distilled from the collection in its institutional transformation from "private body" to public resource. As an informal appendix to the Library, this set of materials highlights the entropic nature of the collection and its resistance to the logics of the archive, at the same time that it provides indicators to produce new partial readings of the Espaliú practice. The graphical results will be published in an online repository with open licence.