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Library Research Grant, The Getty Research Institute

March - April 2025, The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, USA.

Recipient of a Library Research Grant (2025) from the Getty Research Institute, from March to April , I am conducting my research (as part of my P.h.D thesis), War on Paper, which explores the aesthetics of war and conflict in visual poetry and artists' books in Italy from the postwar period to the present.

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Isole. A Conversation with Nikolás Jaar

8th of September, 2024. Ocean Space, Venice.

On Sunday, September 8, I have engaged in a dialogue with musician and producer Nicolás Jaar, making his literary debut, to present his book "Isole," published by Timeo.

This event is a collaboration with the Timeo publishing house and the Marco Polo Bookstore in Venice.

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Curator, Pastasciutta Antifascista. Anti-nationalistic culinary experiments

July 13, 2024, Venice.

Together with Tocia! Cucina e Comunità, I curated and organized the first Pastasciutta Antifascista (Antifascist Pastasciutta) in Venice, in collaboration with Palestra Popolare Zenobia in Campo Junghans, Giudecca.

Commemorating the historic "Pastasciutta Antifascista" of the Antifascist Cervi Brothers, we reinterpreted the traditional dish, highlighting the migrations, cultural exchanges, inspirations, and contaminations that have shaped Italian cuisine. Alberto Grandi and Daniele Soffiati presented "La cucina italiana non esiste. Bugie e falsi miti sui prodotti italiani cosiddetti tipici" (Mondadori, 2023), followed by a concert by Moulaye Peace Trio and a free pasta dinner open to all.

In collaboration with Palestra Popolare Zenobia and Libreria MarcoPolo, with the patronage of ANPI Venezia - Sezione 7 Martiri, Istituto Cervi, and Istituto Veneziano per la Storia della Resistenza e della Società Contemporanea (IVESER).

Graphics by Giulio Zanocco. Illustrations by Stian Rampoldi.

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Co-curator, Floating Cinema / Cinema Galleggiante - Acque Sconosciute (Edition I, II & III)

August - September 2021, 2022, 2023, Venice, IT.

Part of the curatorial team of Floating Cinema - Unknown Waters, a cultural event that takes place on the waters of the Venetian lagoon. Conceived by Paolo Prosso and Edoardo Aruta and presented by MICROCLIMA, Floating Cinema consists of films, videos, performances, music and theater involving both international and local artists are presented on a stage and screen in the waters behind the island of Giudecca, at the end of Rio de Sant’Eufemia. Created with the intention of making a shared vision concrete, the Floating Cinema – Unknown Waters aims to create an amphibious settlement stemming from a small utopia.

The central theme of the third edition of the festival was the surreal, dreamlike and hallucinatory visions, and the absurd.

In partnership with TBA21–Academy’s Ocean Space, Pentagram Stiftung, Palazzo Grassi - Punta della Dogana - Pinault Collection, In Between Art Film Foundation, the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, COMBO, Chantal Crousel Consulting, and National Pavilion of Uzbekistan. And the support of Giancarlo Ligabue Foundation, OGR - Officine Grandi Riparazioni.

Ph: Riccardo Banfi.

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Metagoon: Water Communities across the Adriatic and Pacific, Teatrino di Palazzo Grassi

27th of March, 2024. Teatrino di Palazzo Grassi, Venice.

The Teatrino di Palazzo Grassi hosted an event curated by Metagoon, a multimedia platform collecting stories from the Venetian archipelago and inviting us to go beyond the geographical, environmental, social and cultural boundaries of the lagoon metropolis.

Projections of Ubaldo Magnaghi, Vele chioggiotte, (1951), Martha Atienza, Fisherfolks Day, (2022), and Matteo Stocco & Matteo Primiterra's Metagoon24, accompanied by a musical performance by Macedoniasintetica (C. Camerin, M. Rigon and S. Carraro).  

Presented by me in dialogue with Cristina Baldacci (Ca' Foscari University Venice and NICHE) and film scholar Maria Ida Bernabei (University of Turin). In collaboration with CSC-Cineteca Nazionale, D.H. office, Ocean Space, TBA21-Academy and THE NEW INSTITUTE Centre for Environmental Humanities (NICHE).

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In Conversation with Frances Morris, Director Emerita, Tate Modern | Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia (CSC)

25 September, 2023. Island of San Servolo, Venezia.

I was invited as guest speaker in dialogue with Frances Morris (Director Emerita, Tate Modern) for Out of the Box. A School of Thinking for the Moving Image (Scuola Nazionale di Cinema, 25-30 September 2023).

Out of the Box is a residential “school of thinking” for audiovisual professionals and creators. Designed by Carlo Cresto-Dina, Ootb has been developed and supported by Fondazione Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia – Scuola Nazionale di Cinema, in collaboration with Den Danske Filmskole, the National Film School of Denmark, and FAMU, the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. Some of the international experts who were part of the Ootb program were the Indian-American author Vikram Chandra, neurologist and Professor Hannah Critchlow (University of Cambridge), scientist and Professor Stefano Mancuso (University of Florence), museum curator and Director Frances Morris (Tate Modern, London), composer Lucia Ronchetti (Director Music Department, La Biennale di Venezia).

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La Nuit des Cabanes at Villa Medici, Rome

27 June, 2022. Académie de France à Rome.

A selection of film about the non-human world, from Cinema Galleggiante / Floating Cinema (2022):

I. Dated Fragments, Henrik Håkansson (2000-ongoing), presented by MICROCLIMA.

II. Turtle Dreams, Robert Withers & Meredith Monk, 11 min (1987), presented by Festival delle Arti Giudecca - Sacca Fisola.

III. Tahlequah, Dominique Knowles, 12 min (2019), presented by Vdrome.

IV. The Snorks: a concert for creatures, Loris Gréaud, 28 min (2012), presented by Palazzo Grassi - Punta della Dogana - Pinault Collection.

© Still video from Tahlequah, Dominique Knowles, 2019.

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Researcher & Community Engagement Consultant | CSC - Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, Roma

February - September, 2023.

Island of San Servolo, Venice.

Researcher & Community Engagement Consultant for the upcoming new department CSC Immersive Arts of Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia (National Film School of Italy) that will open in fall 2023 on the Island of San Servolo, Venice. I was involved in the start-up of the department, from researching the visual identity of the project to collaborating on writing about the vision of the department between experimentation bonding with the territory to organizing the presentation panels during the 80th Venice International Film Festival.

A project of the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia supported by NRRP grants and the Veneto Region.

Image: Kensuke Koike, 2023.

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Education Department, The Milk of Dreams, La Biennale di Venezia

1-27 November, 2022, Venice, IT.

I worked in the Educational Department of Fondazione La Biennale di Venezia as an educator and tour guide for the 59th International Art Exhibition The Milk of Dreams, curated by Cecilia Alemani.

The Milk of Dreams takes its title from a book by Leonora Carrington (1917–2011) – Cecilia Alemani stated – in which the Surrealist artist describes a magical world where life is constantly re-envisioned through the prism of the imagination. It is a world where everyone can change, be transformed, become something or someone else. The Exhibition The Milk of Dreams takes Leonora Carrington’s otherworldly creatures, along with other figures of transformation, as companions on an imaginary journey through the metamorphoses of bodies and definitions of the human.

©2022, Roberto Marossi.

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Head & Curator of Public Program, Ocean Space

January 2019 - September 2021, Venice, IT.

For three years I was Head and Curator of the public program of Ocean Space, Venice. I worked for the creation and coordination of a program of public activities linking different city institutions and associations that share the same objectives as the foundation: a new awareness on oceanography, and strengthening knowledge about environmental sustainability, all under the lens of art and participatory social practices.

Exhibitions: Joan Jonas, Moving Off The Land II (2019), curated by Stefanie Hessler. Territorial Agency: Oceans In Transformation (2020), curated by Daniela Zyman. Taloi Havini: The Soul Expanding Ocean#1 (2021), curated by Chus Martìnez.

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Curator, 'Nowtilus. Stories from an Urban Lagoon in the 21st Century' (Podcast)

Nowtilus. Stories from an urban lagoon in the 21st century is a research podcast, a polyphonic archive of stories, notes, and themes relating to rethinking Venice today, dispelling myths about the city, and placing the lagoon back at the center of attention.

Nowtilus leads listeners on a journey of discovery and discussion, addressing the lagoon’s sustainability, and the creative and life-affirming activities that its inhabitants carry out every day to keep it alive and extraordinary. Venice is a meeting place for cultures, an aquatic crossroads of knowledges, and a mixture of flavors and outlooks. An invitation to reflect on inclusion, the notion that sustainability can only be achieved through mutual respect between human and non-human lifeforms, and the fact that the city itself, the Queen of the Adriatic, is the result of migrations, exchanges, encounters, connections, and defenses.

Nowtilus. Stories from an urban lagoon in the 21st century is available on Ocean-Archive.org and on TBA21–Academy Radio on SoundCloud, Spotify, Apple Podcast and Google Podcast. In Italian only, apart from episode 2.8 (in English).

Episodes narrated and curated by Alice Ongaro Sartori and Enrico Bettinello.

Music from Christian Fennesz (Season I) and Enrico Coniglio (Season I & II).

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Curatorial editor, 'Metagoon'. A film-archive about the Venetian Lagoon by Matteo Stocco

Since 2021 I have been collaborating as a curatorial editor of the project Metagoon, a non-fiction archive film on the ecosystem of the Venice lagoon, designed and realised by video-maker Matteo Stocco.

Metagoon is a tool for observing and investigating the Venetian lagoon. The project, which was started in 2015 and is still expanding and developing, consists of an archive of footage and interviews that survey the varied and complex aspects of the Venetian lagoon and the communities that inhabit it.

https://metagoon.net

Events:

12th September, 2022, CareOf, Milano

April - October 2023: ITALY. A New Collective Landscapes, ADI Design Museum, 2023.

©Matteo Stocco

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Co-curator, MICROCLIMA

2016-2023, Serra dei Giardini, Venice, IT.

Since 2016 I have co-curated, coordinated, and produced projects and exhibitions of MICROCLIMA, a cultural project founded in 2011 by Paolo Rosso. MICROCLIMA is based at the Serra dei Giardini in Venice, but it also has branches in other cities in Italy, India, and Mongolia. MICROCLIMA was born with the purpose of giving a new social and creative life to a public orangery that had been abandoned for years and was the first structure ever created for the International Art Exhibition that began in 1895. Through experimental synergies and actions generated by professionals and amateurs of all kinds, Microclima seeks to stimulate the interest of the discovery, or rediscovery, of a delimited area and its social, symbolic and cultural aspects that characterize it as such.

MICROCLIMA curates multiple initiatives and projects also outside of Italy, such as The Guwahati Research Program, an artistic residency based in the capital city of Assam, India and RedHero, a long-term local and international project built around Mongolian arts and culture.

©Adam Mork

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Co-Curator, RedHero

2015-2019, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.

RedHero is a long-term local and international project constructed around Mongolian arts and culture with a particular focus on the capital city of Ulaanbaatar, whose name translates to “Red Hero”.

RedHero is an open map to explore Mongolian culture, observing different aspects of society and bringing to light unexpected and unknown Mongolian stories. To do so, RedHero has created an online Atlas, a digital and interactive platform, realized by video-makers Kinonauts, conceived to be a tool to virtually explore Mongolian culture and its society. To trigger a transdisciplinary disciplinary narration, RedHero has created a long-term research program both for international and Mongolian artists, to develop an in depth research on Mongolian context and culture. Artists involved in RedHero has been: Antoni Muntadas, Mark Dion, Dana Sherwood, Tuguldur Yondonjamts, Michael Beutler, Spagna e Caretto.

With the support of Bodi Dharma Foundation.

www.redhero.mn

©RedHero/Kinonauts

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RedHero at MoMA Doc Fortnight 2020, The Museum of Modern Art

9 February 2020, The Museum of Modern Art, New York.

RedHero was selected as part of MoMA Doc Fortnight, Festival of International Nonfiction Film and Media, 2020. Presentation & screening. RedHero founders Paolo Rosso and Dulguun Batbold are joined by the New York–based artists Mark Dion and Dana Sherwood, as well as Tuguldur Yondonjamts, artist from Ulaanbaatar, in a conversation about current projects on paleontology, herding culture and shamanism, Mongolian epic literature, and new avenues of discovery and interpretation within this unique region. The project is a joint collaboration with video-makers Kinonauts and collaborators Alice Ongaro Sartori, and Elisa Calore.

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Mystical geographies and landscapes of deep time: three artists explore Mongolia. Mark Dion, Dana Sherwood, Tuguldur Yondomjams

22nd of June - 12th October, 2019, Pinksummer Gallery, Genova, IT.

As part of RedHero, I have co-curated the exhibition that grouped the works of artists Mark Dion, Dana Sherwood, and Tuguldur Yondonjamts. The artists have been part of a three-year program of research with RedHero, a cultural project located in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. After traveling in different parts of Mongolia, such as the Altai Mountains in the Ulghi region, the Gobi desert and the capital city Ulaanbaatar, Mark Dion, Dana Sherwood, and Tuguldur Yondonjamts have produced a series of research around Mongolian culture. These artworks represent a step in this long-term residency.

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Curatorial Internship, The Peggy Guggenheim Collection

August-December 2018, The Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, IT.

Recipient of the first curatorial internship in honor of Philip Rylands, previous and first director of the museum. Assisting the curator Grazina Subelyte, and museum director Karole P. B. Vail, with conducting curatorial research for the upcoming exhibitions "Peggy Guggenheim. The Last Dogaressa" (2019) and "Surrealism and Magic" (2021). Furthermore, I help the curatorial department with updating exhibition and publication history checklists, assisting art handlers with re-hanging of the permanent collection, and collaborating with registrar, education and publication offices when needed.