Category: Curatorial practice
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#ALMANACCARE: Damni Kain and Meenakshi Thirukode in conversation
Damni Kain and Meenakshi Thirukode join us as part of #Almanaccare in a conversation which questions the currently available pedagogical spaces and their possibilities of teaching and fostering praxes of critique to openly oppressive apparatuses. I invited Meenakshi Thirukode to share her experiences with School of Instituting Otherwise — an experimental pedagogical space of unlearning…
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#ALMANACCARE: Open-weather feminist handbook
Who or what gains power from satellite imagery, radio technology and meteorological data? I invited Sophie Dyer and Sasha Engelmann to join us as part of #almanaccare by sharing for the first time the series of feminist principles guiding their open-weather project, which probes the noisy relationships between bodies, atmospheres and weather systems. The open-weather…
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#ALMANACCARE: Acoustic Commons Study Group
Acoustic Commons Study Group: Memory Materials29 November 2020Online2-3:30 pm GMT Free, booking required via this link Acoustic Commons Study Group: Memory Materials is an online, chat-based meeting which will host responses to the subject matter of Burning House / Burning Horse, a poetic and sensorially-rich comment on our times conceived by feminist writer Ella Finer…
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#ALMANACCARE: Ella Finer
Burning House / Burning HorseNovember 5, 2020 at 7 pm Burning House / Burning Horse is a new audiovisual piece by feminist writer Ella Finer which will be broadcast from Almanac Projects’ website on the night of 5th November, traditionally coinciding with the Guy Fawkes or Bonfire Night and this year with the beginning of…
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#ALMANACCARE – a curatorial collaboration with Almanac Projects, London/Turin
I have collaborated with Joanna Harrison and Astrid Korporaal to #ALMANACCARE, an online research platform hosted by Almanac Projects to reflect on care, ecology and community over the coming months. More info here. Photo courtesy: Virginia Ariu. Graphic design: Christel Martinod.A text which says ‘Care, Community, Ecology’ is overlaid on the image detail of a…
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ROUND TABLE: “Lilith, Akin, San, Ido, and others: Mythopoesis as Resistance”
Monday, 24th June 2019, 7-8 pmCastro ProjectsPiazza dei Ponziani, 8eRome This roundtable discussion will explore those contemporary art and feminist speculative fiction practices which create stories with an emancipatory potential. Specifically, we will consider beings exceeding the anthropocentric paradigms of humanity, volume, and reality, as agents of political resistance. Among these bodies-at-large, there are Lilith and Akin, the characters…
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Reading Group: Stereotyper
Organised in collaboration with Altalena, this reading group engages with feminist speculative fiction and its emancipatory potential. These stories, in fact, question the power relations that imbricate and regulate one’s subjectivity by opposing strange and estranging scenarios. The aim is to open up a time-space to critically imagine with the desires and forces of the…
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Armada presents Isabella Costabile and Emiliano Furia
Armada has opened “Gli Ultimi Artisti”, the double solo show by Isabella Costabile and Emiliano Furia running from October 9-November 17. Pics. Photo: Alessandro Zambianchi
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In Conversation: Melanie Jackson at Primary, Nottingham
I did an ‘in conversation’ with Melanie Jackson on June 30 at 3 pm at Primary, Nottingham. Please do come if you will be around! The conversation drew upon some of the most relevant issues in Jackson’s research, with the aim of interrogating the effects of biotechnologies modulating and commodifying bodily matters. In this sense,…
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Armada presents Marco Conoci
Armada has opened “Undercover”, the solo show by Marco Conoci running from June 8 to the moment when the flowers in the exhibition will wither. Pics. Photo: Alessandro Zambianchi