Free Home’s Alessandra Pomarico and Nikolay Oleynikov are proud to take part in Resistenze! - a new edition of the Forum dell’Arte Contemporanea Italiana.

FOCUS FORUM #3

December 9th, 2020, 5 PM (CET) - Online

The third Focus of the Forum of Italian Contemporary Art named Resistances! Notes, thoughts, reflections, experiences and hopes for an alternative process of action and participation to bring change in the local social contexts, organized by Giuseppefraugallery/Scuola Civica Arte Contemporanea.

These Focus are in-depth monthly plenary sessions. Each addresses territorial and community-based criticalities, and presents the corresponding experiences, initiatives, studies and projects. The sessions are intended as bridges among different historical, geographical and social contexts. Open to public debate, a way to collect not only thoughts and impressions but also concrete proposals. The aim of the Focus is to activate a platform giving room to local collectivities in order to face critical issues which are linked to the spheres of public space and geo-politics.

Resistances! aims to connect theories, practices, thoughts and experiences coming from activist contexts, not necessarily belonging to the field of contemporary art. While avoiding to categorize and define such experiences through neither a specialized take nor any linguistic filters, we aim to let them flow through a story-telling approach. We will take a journey along the practices of the making, of the place-living, of the social change through the lens of the struggles for the rights of the environmental issues, of diversities and of all those urgencies that require acts of resistance.

Resistances! invites the participants to reflect on some of the following questions and to eventually add further ones:

• What does it mean to resist today – in action and being?

• Resistance as critical thought: how to foster it within the communities?

• Making politics is not enough to resist, but is it possible to resist without making politics?

• According to the Italian Constitution, Art. 1, the right to resist is legitimized by the principle of ‘popular sovereignty’: can then the notion of resistance be institutionalized without being deprived of its strength? Is it to be considered as a moment of opposition to the established power or rather as a constructive and transformative action?

• In the light of the pandemic, how can arts and culture contribute to the social, economic and environmental emergencies?

Link to join the session:

Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87013194034?pwd=YU9QWnFoS1RQYkJrcWVyUnR0eDRXZz09

Meeting ID: 870 1319 4034
Passcode: 283539

Programme

5 PM Intro
5:10 PM Resistances / Resistance / Restanza / R (e)esistence / Community
Beatrice Verri, Alessandro Ottenga / Fondazione Nuto Revelli / Paraloup
Ilaria Conti / Prove di R (i)esistenza Fondazione Baruchello
Gianni Fresu / President of the International Gramsci Society do Brasil
Vito Teti / Anthropologist and writer
Oreste Torri / Cooperativa di comunità valle dei cavalieri
Pierluigi Carta / Villaggio Normann
Gianluca Palma / Daìmon: A scuola per restare
Bianco-Valente / A Cielo Aperto
Paolo Mele, Claudio Zecchi / Ramdom / Lastation
Luigi Coppola / Casa delle Agriculture
Micaela Casalboni / Teatro dell’argine
6:55 PM Q& A

7:10 PM Resistances / Feminism / Work / Environment / Anti-specism / Climate Justice
Labourer Associazione Occupy Maflow
Cinzia Guaita / Comitato Riconversione RWM per la pace ed il lavoro sostenibile
Andrea Degl’Innocenti / Italia che cambia
Marco Pitò / Extinction Rebellion Italia
Daniela Spera / Committee Legamjonici, Taranto
Sara Manfredi / CHEAP Street poster art
Deborah Lucchetti / Fair-Campagna Abiti Puliti
Clara Mogno / Assemblea #ilmondocheverrà / Mediterranea Saving Humans
Leonardo Caffo / Curatore Triennale Milano e Docente di Estetica, NABA
Isabella e Tiziana Pers / RAVE East Village Artist Residency
8:50 PM Q& A

9:05 PM Resistances / Public Space / Gentrification / Center / Suburbs / Radical Pedagogy
Alessandra Pomarico, Nikolay Oleynikov / Free Home University
Francesca Traverso / Il limone lunare
Bertram M. Niessen / Che Fare
Corrado Gugliotta / Laveronica
Marco Baravalle / S.a.L.e Docks
Mariette Schiltz / Isola Art Center
Simona Bordone, Pasquale Campanella / Wurmkos
Pietro Gaglianò / Art critic and curator
10:25 PM Q& A

Links:

https://www.facebook.com/events/1120387235044292

https://forumartecontemporanea.wordpress.com/category/focus-resistenze/