10 August 2020
Online
Lucrezia Cippitelli
&
Francesco Tenaglia
In the third episode of Almanac Talks, Francesco Tenaglia is in conversation with cultural activist and scholar Lucrezia Cippitelli.
Lucrezia Cippitelli, cultural activist, scholar, PhD. Together with institutional and independent international partners, has developed educational and artistic activities which involve education through art, DIY culture, site-specificity and collectivism. She set up a Media Lab in Havana (Alamar Express Lab, with Omni Zonafranca, Cuba, and Inventati, Italy), a Master in Visual Arts at Alle School of Arts and Design of Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia; a lab for site-specific artistic production in Khartoum (Khartoum Art Lab, Sudan). She is currently artistic director of Atelier Picha, the long-term, site-specific educational program of Picha, the artist lead organization which runs Lubumbashi Biennale (Democratic Republic of Congo), and is professor of Aesthetics at Brera Art Academy, Milan.
Almanac Talks: the curatorial, communities and the social is a new series of podcast episodes organised and hosted by art critic and curator Francesco Tenaglia which explores curatorial and artistic practices focused not only on exhibition making, but also on public programs, workshops, reading groups, civic activism and other forms of community engagement, as well as emerging theoretical and sociopolitical issues.
Listen to the previous episode here.
The project is supported by Arts Council England Grants for the Arts.
