Andrea’s practice moves between writing, editing, and curating. Under the long-term project Terra Infecta, it looks at epidemiological histories to untangle current political and ecological conflicts.
collective exhibition / Vulnerable Critters
La Casa Encendida (Madrid), curated with Ivan L. Munuera, May 26–Sept. 18, 2022
La Casa Encendida (Madrid), curated with Ivan L. Munuera, May 26–Sept. 18, 2022
Social relations are intrinsically founded on continual contact and friction – yet, the history of modernity is one of continuous attempts at preventing contamination. The works in the show present non-normative understandings of infection, and reclaim vulnerability as a route toward new forms of coexistence.
With new commissions by Michael Wang, Rachaporn Choochuey, Nerea Calvillo, and works by P. Staff, Monica Bonvicini, Himali Singh Soin, Isil Egrikavuk, Pratchaya Pinthong, Pepe Espaliú
read the exhibition booklet
listen to the artists on La Casa Encendida Radio
visual design: Omnigroup
With new commissions by Michael Wang, Rachaporn Choochuey, Nerea Calvillo, and works by P. Staff, Monica Bonvicini, Himali Singh Soin, Isil Egrikavuk, Pratchaya Pinthong, Pepe Espaliú
read the exhibition booklet
listen to the artists on La Casa Encendida Radio
visual design: Omnigroup
public program / Vulnerable Beings
MAAT (Lisbon), curated with Ivan L. Munuera, 2021
MAAT (Lisbon), curated with Ivan L. Munuera, 2021
In two weekend-long assemblies, artists, academics, scientists, and activists gathered together to reflect on vulnerability and cohabitation.
Tuning In (Oct. 29–31)
Vivian Caccuri, Carlo Caduff, Teresa Fabião, Dan Glass, Anjuli Fatima Raza Kolb, Panagiota Kotsila, Meike Wolf, Rachaporn Choochuey, Sofia Gallisá Muriente, Cruz García, Tomaso de Luca, Marina Otero Verzier, Francesco Urbano Ragazzi
Sounding Out (Nov. 26–28)
Jack Halberstam, Himali Singh Soin, Isabel Amaral, Sofia Lemos, Edwin Nasr, Uriel Orlow, Sarah Schulman, Nerea Calvillo, Lucia Casani and Monica Carroquino, Tamara Giles-Vernick, Michael Marder, Elise Misao Hunchuck, Françoise Vergès, Michael Wang
read Vulnerable Beings: A Lexicon
read the program
Tuning In (Oct. 29–31)
Vivian Caccuri, Carlo Caduff, Teresa Fabião, Dan Glass, Anjuli Fatima Raza Kolb, Panagiota Kotsila, Meike Wolf, Rachaporn Choochuey, Sofia Gallisá Muriente, Cruz García, Tomaso de Luca, Marina Otero Verzier, Francesco Urbano Ragazzi
Sounding Out (Nov. 26–28)
Jack Halberstam, Himali Singh Soin, Isabel Amaral, Sofia Lemos, Edwin Nasr, Uriel Orlow, Sarah Schulman, Nerea Calvillo, Lucia Casani and Monica Carroquino, Tamara Giles-Vernick, Michael Marder, Elise Misao Hunchuck, Françoise Vergès, Michael Wang
read Vulnerable Beings: A Lexicon
read the program
A book on the landscape of Sardinia and the Mediterranean, written by Andrea Bagnato, with photographs by Anna Positano
read a preview (in Italian)
read a preview (in Italian)
book / Arrivederci ad Arborea
forthcoming: Humboldt Books, 2023
forthcoming: Humboldt Books, 2023
essay series
10 Gigabits per Second, 100 Times Faster, on a Different Wavelength
on whether 5G is harmful to your health
> written with Elisa Giuliano, Dirty Furniture n. 5, September 2021 > read or buy the magazine
Staying at Home
on the spatial politics of pandemic confinement
> e-flux architecture, April 2020 > read
We Must Disembowel Naples!
on cholera and gentrification in 1884
> AA Files no. 77, Summer 2020 > read, or buy the issue
The Normalization of Bodies
on draining wetlands and emptying caves
> in the book Archivi della Basilicata 1, Humboldt Books, 2019 > read
Arrivederci ad Arborea
on the new towns of Fascism
> Migrant Journal n. 5, 2018, with photography by Anna Positano > read
Microscopic Colonialism
on the environmental history of HIV
> e-flux architecture, December 2017 > read
Mapping Malaria in Italy
on public health as infrastructure
> Canadian Centre for Architecture, 2017 > read
on whether 5G is harmful to your health
> written with Elisa Giuliano, Dirty Furniture n. 5, September 2021 > read or buy the magazine
Staying at Home
on the spatial politics of pandemic confinement
> e-flux architecture, April 2020 > read
We Must Disembowel Naples!
on cholera and gentrification in 1884
> AA Files no. 77, Summer 2020 > read, or buy the issue
The Normalization of Bodies
on draining wetlands and emptying caves
> in the book Archivi della Basilicata 1, Humboldt Books, 2019 > read
Arrivederci ad Arborea
on the new towns of Fascism
> Migrant Journal n. 5, 2018, with photography by Anna Positano > read
Microscopic Colonialism
on the environmental history of HIV
> e-flux architecture, December 2017 > read
Mapping Malaria in Italy
on public health as infrastructure
> Canadian Centre for Architecture, 2017 > read
miscellanea
Medical Borders, an ongoing collective project coordinated by prof. Jelena Martinovic at EDHEA, Switzerland, 2022–2024
participation in the exhibition Sick Architecture, curated by Beatriz Colomina and Nikolaus Hirsch, CIVA, Brussels, 2022
a conversation with Ivan L. Munuera for Pin-Up Magazine, 2020 (read)
a conversation with Pelin Tan for Radio Al Alhara, 2020 (listen)
another conversation with Pelin Tan for ARQ journal, 2021 (read)
participation in the exhibition Sick Architecture, curated by Beatriz Colomina and Nikolaus Hirsch, CIVA, Brussels, 2022
a conversation with Ivan L. Munuera for Pin-Up Magazine, 2020 (read)
a conversation with Pelin Tan for Radio Al Alhara, 2020 (listen)
another conversation with Pelin Tan for ARQ journal, 2021 (read)
research / Kivalina: The Coming Storm
Global warming is transforming the Arctic landscape in ways that are not yet perceived at temperate latitudes. Threatened by increasingly violent storms, the Inupiaq village of Kivalina, Alaska, is trying to relocate to safer ground. Governmental agencies seem unable to tackle the issue in its complexity. The project presents the often conflicting voices of residents, engineers, politicians, to excavate the unresolved histories behind the current climate crisis.
Global warming is transforming the Arctic landscape in ways that are not yet perceived at temperate latitudes. Threatened by increasingly violent storms, the Inupiaq village of Kivalina, Alaska, is trying to relocate to safer ground. Governmental agencies seem unable to tackle the issue in its complexity. The project presents the often conflicting voices of residents, engineers, politicians, to excavate the unresolved histories behind the current climate crisis.
2014
with Cooking Sections, Helene Kazan, Hannah Meszaros Martin
exhibitions:
Bonniers Konsthall, 2020
Meteorological Mobilities, Apexart, 2020
Forensis, Haus Der Kulturen der Welt, 2014
with Cooking Sections, Helene Kazan, Hannah Meszaros Martin
exhibitions:
Bonniers Konsthall, 2020
Meteorological Mobilities, Apexart, 2020
Forensis, Haus Der Kulturen der Welt, 2014
talks (selection)
Presentation, Decolonizing Architecture course, Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm, October 6, 2022
Lecture at the conference “Border Environments”, Goldsmiths, May 13, 2022
Presentation, Interdisciplinary Art and Design Practices course, Harvard GSD, April 6, 2022
Lecture at the symposium “The Space/Times and Afterlives of Bonifica”, Syracuse University in Florence, March 23, 2022
Presentation, PhD pro-seminar led by Beatriz Colomina, Princeton University, Oct. 2019 and Nov. 2021
“On (not) Staying at Home”, lecture at Bard College, Oct. 22, 2021
“Bodily Encounters” conversation, Salon Suisse, Venice Biennial 2021
Lecture, “Spaces of Containment and Care” series, Carnegie Mellon University, Feb. 2021
Lecture at the conference “Pre- Mid- Post-”, Konstfack, Stockholm, Oct. 2020
Conversation with Ivan L. Munuera, Het Nieuwe Instituut, Oct. 2019
Conversation with Jumana Manna, “The Mediterranean as a Mindset”, organised by Delfina Foundation, Sept. 2019
Lecture at the Architectural Association, July 2019 - watch
“Circulations” conference organized with Dele Adeyemo and Francesco Sebregondi. With Christina Sharpe, Ross Exo Adams, Claudia Aradau, Shehab Ismail, Azadeh Mashayekhi, Nida Rehman, Anita Rupprecht. Goldsmiths, May 2018.
Lecture at Manifesta 12, “The Heritage of Fascist Architecture” seminar, organized by Decolonizing Architecture/KKH Stockholm, June 2018
Conversation with Giovanna Borasi and Nabil Ahmed, Het Nieuwe Instituut, March 2017- listen
Lecture at the conference “Border Environments”, Goldsmiths, May 13, 2022
Presentation, Interdisciplinary Art and Design Practices course, Harvard GSD, April 6, 2022
Lecture at the symposium “The Space/Times and Afterlives of Bonifica”, Syracuse University in Florence, March 23, 2022
Presentation, PhD pro-seminar led by Beatriz Colomina, Princeton University, Oct. 2019 and Nov. 2021
“On (not) Staying at Home”, lecture at Bard College, Oct. 22, 2021
“Bodily Encounters” conversation, Salon Suisse, Venice Biennial 2021
Lecture, “Spaces of Containment and Care” series, Carnegie Mellon University, Feb. 2021
Lecture at the conference “Pre- Mid- Post-”, Konstfack, Stockholm, Oct. 2020
Conversation with Ivan L. Munuera, Het Nieuwe Instituut, Oct. 2019
Conversation with Jumana Manna, “The Mediterranean as a Mindset”, organised by Delfina Foundation, Sept. 2019
Lecture at the Architectural Association, July 2019 - watch
“Circulations” conference organized with Dele Adeyemo and Francesco Sebregondi. With Christina Sharpe, Ross Exo Adams, Claudia Aradau, Shehab Ismail, Azadeh Mashayekhi, Nida Rehman, Anita Rupprecht. Goldsmiths, May 2018.
Lecture at Manifesta 12, “The Heritage of Fascist Architecture” seminar, organized by Decolonizing Architecture/KKH Stockholm, June 2018
Conversation with Giovanna Borasi and Nabil Ahmed, Het Nieuwe Instituut, March 2017- listen
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