Free Home University
Free Home University (Lecce, Italy) is a pedagogical and artistic experiment focused on generating new ways of sharing and creating knowledge by experiencing life in common. The name shows our desire to be a non-vertical, energy-liberating, insurgent environment (Free), within a protected and intimate space (Home), committed to creating a temporary autonomous community of learners (University).
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LEARNING INTENTIONS / LEARNING IN TENSIONS an exhibition @ San Francesco della Scarpa, Lecce
December 11, 2024
Simultaneous Arrivals in Residence at LoopHouse
March 10, 2024
Art Residency in San Cesario for a group of sound- and visual artists, scientists, and architects
ASSEMBLY Against War in the Midst @ArsElectronica, Linz
September 07, 2023
World Artists' Agency Against War | KunstUni
People of Flour, Salt, and Water @MUAC, MEXICO
August 11, 2023
Film Screening + Public Talk \w Alejandra Labastida & Alessandra Pomarico
EL MÚCARO A LO LEJOS program for MATERIA ABIERTA, MEXICO
August 07, 2023
What Is the Sound of Contested Space?
School of the WE | Editorial Meeting @ <rotor>, Graz
June 26, 2023
June 23-25
Ecoversities Gathering | Regione Europae | chapter 2
June 23, 2023
Le Fattize d'Arneo, Salento
CURATORIAL PRACTICES at the INTERSECTION of COMMUNITY BUILDING, LEARNING PROCESSES, and POLITICS of EVERYDAY LIFE @tranzit.sk
June 20, 2023
a conversation between curators Ukhona Ntsali Mlandu and Alessandra Pomarico
Expanding Our Wor(L)ds @ <rotor>, Graz
June 15, 2023
series of events with Alessandra Pomarico
MAKING the INVISIBLE VISIBLE | Saodat Ismailova & Alessandra Pomarico @tranzit.sk
May 09, 2023
online discussion
ECOLOGICAL TRANSITION: How, for Whom, and Whose Expenses? @Re-Imagining Education Ecoversities Festival
April 20, 2023
READING as a SUBVERSIVE PRACTICE: a series of exercises with Free Home University and Dreaming in Women* @ halle-fuer-kunst, Lueneburg, Germany
March 30, 2023
01:04 @ halle-fuer-kunst, Lueneburg, Germany
RADIO DAY | firefly frequencies @ ecoversities
February 11, 2023
listening | learning | resonating
FHU w/FFF in HALLE FÜR KUNST LÜNEBURG
January 24, 2023
29. January 2023 – 02. April 2023
Loop-House Rewind | Arkadiy Kots Band and Anna Moiseenko in residency
October 22, 2022
protest present time
Becoming Fireflies | documenta fifteen encounter
September 19, 2022
Sept 21 | 3-5pm
Becoming Fireflies with the Lumbung
September 18, 2022
documenta fifteen fff transmissions
RiForestival | Le Fattizze
September 16, 2022
Sep. 15~18 | 2022
COMMONINGS w Chto Delat at HKW
September 15, 2022
NEW ALPHABET SCHOOL
COMMONINGS w Silvia Federici, Peter Linebaugh moderated by Alessanra Pomarico
September 13, 2022
The NEW ALPHABET SCHOOL
Pasolini @ Notte Verde | 2022
August 24, 2022
Aug 29-31 | 2022
Alessandra won an Italian Council award
August 06, 2022
People of Flour @ FATTIZZE DOC FESTIVAL
August 05, 2022
Aug-6 | book'n'film presentation
Becoming Fireflies @ lac o le mon
July 26, 2022
practices of radio > affective listening > transversal transmission
Reclaiming Wider Ecologies of Knowledge @ tranzit.sk
July 05, 2022
July 7-8-9
ECOLOGIES of CARE | Ljublijana
June 24, 2022
23 –25. 6. 2022
screening & talk || Chto Delat @ Grounding~Seeding
May 24, 2022
film screening and artist talk || 26 May 2022, 7pm
Grounding~Seeding @ tranzit.sk
May 17, 2022
exhibition project in Bratislava
Guelph Book Launch @ Musagetes
May 17, 2022
When the Roots Start Moving: Film Screening & Conversation with Alessandra Pomarico and Nikolay Oleynikov
Sunday, May 29, 2022 /// 2pm
Heritage Hall /// 83 Essex Street, Guelph, ON
Ecoversities Sixth Planetary Gathering in Egypt
March 05, 2022
19-26.03.2022
FAJU in Dakar || Feb, 9 to 16
February 02, 2022
second edition gathering
Kirill Medvedev is imprisoned
October 30, 2021
Partizan Jam at Partisan Cultures
October 04, 2021
When the Roots Start Moving || launching tour
September 15, 2021
Françoise Vergès and Rachele Borghi || public events of M.E.D.U.S.E. in Salento
August 13, 2021
Aug 26 & 28
M.E.D.U.S.E. in Dialogue around the Mediterranean @ Domus, Galatina
July 19, 2021
19 – 25 July 2021
"R" is for "Revised" (and sent to print)
July 19, 2021
the book is delivered to the print house Giorgiani
SLOW SPATIAL READER | book launch
July 08, 2021
July 8th, 2021, 19:30–21:00
SUSTAINING ASSEMBLY | PAV, Torino
May 15, 2021
07.05.21 / 24.10.21
ZKM || Assembly for Permacircular Museums
April 16, 2021
ZKM || Apr 23
ARTS for WOMEN'S STRIKE
March 03, 2021
octopusVSpatriarchy
ON ECOLOGIES OF KNOWLEDGES || Alessandra in debates @ the School of Mutation (IRI)
January 21, 2021
Institute of Radical Imagination in dialogue w Dm. Vilensky
#Healing (Faju) || Feb 4-6
January 19, 2021
New Alphabet School @HKW (Berlin)
2 new pieces in Partizan Jam collection
January 08, 2021
keep on studying antifascism
FHU@Forum dell'Arte Contemporanea Italiana
December 09, 2020
Resistances / Radical Pedagogy
M.E.D.U.S.E. float @ Ecoversities
December 05, 2020
Dec.06 || 9.oo PM CET
Firefly Frequencies || since Dec 5, 2020
December 03, 2020
launch of the online radio
International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women
November 24, 2020
bad-times-story
#HEALING Dakar\Berlin || Feb 2021
November 07, 2020
FHU@HKW
In Memoriam || David Graeber's intergalactic night || Oct 11th, Lecce
October 01, 2020
Notte dei Cuori Dentati
People of Flour on display in Athens
September 25, 2020
European Premiere
Cultural Workers of Belarus: Open Letter
August 17, 2020
open letter
Indigenous Resilience || Learing w COVD: chapter 5
August 13, 2020
Aug 23 || 11:00 (EST)
The Black Diaspora || Political Resistance and Radical Love
June 21, 2020
Learning w covid series
What's there to (un)learn? || June 17-19
June 16, 2020
LaForesta Academy feat. FHU
la Cura || the Care (we want) by A. Pomarico
June 01, 2020
A contribution to the Italian Contemporary Art Forum
S. Federici, G. Esteva, M. Fasheh
May 28, 2020
Ecoversities in Conversation
Trans-European Partizan Jam || Chapter 1: Bella Ciao
May 18, 2020
Chapter 1
Antifascism for the Future? Live Music and more
May 08, 2020
live concert online
Bella Ciao teach-in: pedagogies of Antifascism
April 20, 2020
April 25 || Castiglione d'Otranto
S. FEDERICI's NEW BOOK
March 08, 2020
acknowledgements
CALL for POSTERS
February 28, 2020
Women's Strike NYC Street Fest
Oaxaca || Forms of R-existence
February 20, 2020
El Primer Semillero
Polit-Informatsia Under the Mango Tree
February 15, 2020
02.02.-07.02.2020
Free Home on the news
January 11, 2020
La Repubblica & Telerama
Ecoversities Europea || Gathering at the Threshold
January 10, 2020
27.12.2019 - 03.01.2020
People of Flour... @ Lo Spirito del Grano
December 28, 2019
Chto Delat is back to Casa delle Agricullture
Corpi+Anticorpi Festival of FHU (Italian announcement)
December 17, 2019
23-27 Dec 2019 || Lecce
Altar to Our Teachers
November 08, 2019
Pedagogies of the Dead
Back to School: FHU @ Banzi, Liceo Scientifico, Lecce
October 29, 2019
Oct || Dec, 2019
FHU@Ecoversities Global in Mexico
October 29, 2019
Oct26 || Nov2
SHIFTER 24 || NYC Art Book Fair
September 22, 2019
book launch, Spt 22, 2019
Wearing Our Questions || Sticking On Our Mottos
August 30, 2019
FHU's Mutual-Aid Fund and Graphic Guerrilla Campaign
BABI BADALOV || Refugees Will Come {and more}
August 19, 2019
RURALI MURALI || FHU Lab
EDITORIAL MEETING
July 01, 2019
Specchiulla || July 2019
Silvia Federici, Chto Delat, Babi Badalov: Summer Sessions 2019
June 07, 2019
FHU summer sessions
SILVIA FEDERICI || a public talk || S.a.L.E. DOCKS
May 20, 2019
June 9th, 18:30 || S.a.L.E. DOCKS, Venice
Publics, Pedagogies & Policies
March 23, 2019
FHU Budapest-2019
The 8th Floor, NYC. Learn-in: arts, pedagogy and reimagining our existence in dark times
February 28, 2019
On March 9th Free Home together with Chto Delat is proudly co-hosting a pedagogical event at The 8th Floor (an art venue of Rubin Museum of Art, Shelley and Donald Rubin Foundation) in New York.
FHU at ArtsEverywhere festival
January 24, 2019
On January 24 the ArtsEvery festival started in Guelph, Ontario with an opening lecutre presenting pedagogies, practices and urgencies of Free Home University. At the Art Gallery Guelph Alessandra Pomarico gave a talk about the vision, the various articulations and the tools that have emerged during these 5 years. In the room with us Dani D'Emilia, Elwood Jimmy, Shawn Van Sluys, Vanessa Andreotti, Rene Susa, who contributed sharing their perspective and experience of our process.
Michael Roberson at the 2018 ArtsEverywhere Festival
December 03, 2018
in the beginning of 2018 ArtsEverywhere festival in Guelph, Ontario, has started with a speech by our iconic comrade Michael Roberson, activist, historiographer of the house\ballroom community, artist, member of many organizations and father of dozen of houses. Free Home University is proud to announce that 2019 festival will start with an activation by Alessandra Pomarico co-piloted by Nikolay