Terra Infecta is a long-term research project, started in 2013, on the architecture and ecology of infectious disease. It considers both historical and current case studies, investigating epidemics as a product of colonial and extractive geographies.
Vulnerable Critters / Criaturas Vulnerables
An exhibition at La Casa Encendida, Madrid
May 26–Sept 18, 2022
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
Curated by Andrea Bagnato and Ivan L. Munuera
read the exhibition booklet
listen to the artists on La Casa Encendida Radio
visual design: Omnigroup
An exhibition at La Casa Encendida, Madrid
May 26–Sept 18, 2022
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
Curated by Andrea Bagnato and Ivan L. Munuera
read the exhibition booklet
listen to the artists on La Casa Encendida Radio
visual design: Omnigroup
Vulnerable Beings / Seres Vulneráveis
A two-part public assembly on the space and time of epidemics at MAAT, Lisbon
Tuning In (Oct 29–31, 2021)
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, 2021)
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
Organised by Andrea Bagnato and Ivan L. Munuera
read Vulnerable Beings: A Lexicon
read the program
A two-part public assembly on the space and time of epidemics at MAAT, Lisbon
Tuning In (Oct 29–31, 2021)
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, 2021)
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
Organised by Andrea Bagnato and Ivan L. Munuera
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
forthcoming: Humboldt Books, 2023
read a preview (in Italian)
forthcoming: Humboldt Books, 2023
read a preview (in Italian)
Arrivederci ad Arborea
[working title]
[working title]
Terra Infecta 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
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)
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)
Kivalina: The Coming Storm
2014
Climate change is transforming the Arctic landscape in ways that are still invisible at temperate latitudes. Threatened by increasingly violent storms, the Inupiaq village of Kivalina, Alaska, is trying to relocate but without success. Governmental agencies seem unable to tackle the issue in its complexity. The project weaves together the voices of residents, engineers, and politicians, to narrate the stakes and histories involved.
2014
Climate change is transforming the Arctic landscape in ways that are still invisible at temperate latitudes. Threatened by increasingly violent storms, the Inupiaq village of Kivalina, Alaska, is trying to relocate but without success. Governmental agencies seem unable to tackle the issue in its complexity. The project weaves together the voices of residents, engineers, and politicians, to narrate the stakes and histories involved.
video, 36 min.
with Daniel Fernandéz Pascual, Helene Kazan, Hannah Meszaros Martin, Alon Schwabe
exhibitions:
Forensis, Haus Der Kulturen der Welt, 2014
Meteorological Mobilities, Apexart, 2020
with Daniel Fernandéz Pascual, Helene Kazan, Hannah Meszaros Martin, Alon Schwabe
exhibitions:
Forensis, Haus Der Kulturen der Welt, 2014
Meteorological Mobilities, Apexart, 2020
selected talks
Presentation at Decolonizing Architecture course, Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm, October 6, 2022
Lecture at “Border Environments” conference, Goldsmiths, May 13, 2022
Lecture at Interdisciplinary Art and Design Practices course, Harvard GSD, April 6, 2022
Lecture at “The Space/Times and Afterlives of Bonifica”symposum, Syracuse University in Florence, March 23, 2022
Presentations at 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 “Pre- Mid- Post-” conference, 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 “Border Environments” conference, Goldsmiths, May 13, 2022
Lecture at Interdisciplinary Art and Design Practices course, Harvard GSD, April 6, 2022
Lecture at “The Space/Times and Afterlives of Bonifica”symposum, Syracuse University in Florence, March 23, 2022
Presentations at 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 “Pre- Mid- Post-” conference, 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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