CRY ME A RIVER OF CROCODILE TEARS: FLAVA TIBER
“[…] hunc inter fluvio Tiberinus amoeno verticibus rapidis et multa flavus harena in mare prorumpit […]” Virgil. What remains of the mythology of the blonde Tiber, strictly linked as it is to the birth of Rome and over 2000 years of history, as its
FLIPPING
FLIPPING A Note on Acquisition, Time, and Responsibility Works of art do not begin their life when they are sold.They begin when someone decides to live with them. For this reason, acquisition here is not treated as a transaction but as an entry into
PERIPHERAL BUT NOT IRRELEVANT
"Silence does not mean surrender!" Lanfranco Aceti, Athens, 2018. Performance. Curated by Artemis Potamianou. Peripheral but not Irrelevant: Peripheries' Contribution to the Centrality of the Globalized Cities (Periferico ma non Irrilevante: Il contributo delle Periferie alla Centralità delle Città Globalizzate) is the talk that I
ZERO FUCKS TO GIVE: A TALK, A MANIFESTO, AND A WORK OF ART
"One world approved thy wisdom; another, mine." Antigone, Sophocles Zero Fucks to Give is a work of art for Platforms Project, Athens, Greece, May 14-31, 2020. It consists of a talk, a manifesto, and a video performance. It is part of a larger set of
LIVING AFTER THE APOCALYPSE
"Even if you encounter opposition, have conviction and finish what you start. People in the end will understand." Kotoko Wamura Living After the Apocalypse is a curatorial proposal I conceived and developed when I was invited to submit a conceptual framework for an art
DIGITAL MEDIA AND DEMOCRACY
Digital Media and Democracy, aka From Democracy to Post-Citizenship is a panel I am organizing at MIT for the Media in Transition 10 conference entitled Democracy and Digital Media with the assistance of Rob Halperin. The panel was developed following the encouragement of Professor William