Andrea’s practice moves between writing, editing, and curating. Under the long-term project Terra Infecta, it looks at epidemiological histories to untangle current eco-political and social conflicts.
collective exhibition /
Medical Borders
Les Arsenaux, Sion (CH)
Jan. 19–Apr. 5, 2024
Medical Borders
Les Arsenaux, Sion (CH)
Jan. 19–Apr. 5, 2024
The exhibition is the outcome of a collective research project on the history of forced medical checks that were performed on migrant workers, who crossed the Alps into Switzerland from Southern Europe in the second half of the 20th century. Medical Borders questions the logic of the archive that holds the traces of such history, and proposes new models to preserve the inaudible voices of the hundreds of thousands of people involved.
Principal investigator Jelena Martinovic; associate researcher Federica Martini; with contributions by Raphaël Cuomo and Maria Iorio, Lucia Bernini and Jonas Heller, Laurence Rasti.
read the exhibition booklet (in French)
Principal investigator Jelena Martinovic; associate researcher Federica Martini; with contributions by Raphaël Cuomo and Maria Iorio, Lucia Bernini and Jonas Heller, Laurence Rasti.
read the exhibition booklet (in French)
collective exhibition /
Criaturas Vulnerables
La Casa Encendida, Madrid
curated with Ivan L. Munuera
May 26–Sept. 18, 2022
Criaturas Vulnerables
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
Vulnerable Beings
MAAT, Lisbon
curated with Ivan L. Munuera
2021
A weekend-long public program with artists, academics, scientists, and activists to reflect collectively 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
essays
On neoliberal urbanism and design complicities in Milan
> Architect’s Newspaper, April 2023 > read
On whether 5G is harmful to your health
> written with Elisa Giuliano, Dirty Furniture n. 5, September 2021 > read or buy the magazine
On the spatial politics of pandemic confinement
> e-flux architecture, April 2020 > read
On cholera and gentrification in 1880s Naples
> AA Files no. 77, Summer 2020 > read, or buy the issue
On the New Towns of Fascism
> Migrant Journal n. 5, 2018, with photography by Anna Positano > read
On the colonial history of HIV
> e-flux architecture, December 2017 > read
On mosquitoes and the construction of the South
> Canadian Centre for Architecture, 2017 > read
> Architect’s Newspaper, April 2023 > read
On whether 5G is harmful to your health
> written with Elisa Giuliano, Dirty Furniture n. 5, September 2021 > read or buy the magazine
On the spatial politics of pandemic confinement
> e-flux architecture, April 2020 > read
On cholera and gentrification in 1880s Naples
> AA Files no. 77, Summer 2020 > read, or buy the issue
On the New Towns of Fascism
> Migrant Journal n. 5, 2018, with photography by Anna Positano > read
On the colonial history of HIV
> e-flux architecture, December 2017 > read
On mosquitoes and the construction of the South
> Canadian Centre for Architecture, 2017 > read
miscellanea
Difficult Heritage, annual gathering of the Entity of Decolonization in the Fascist town of Borgo Rizza in Sicily. Organised with DAAR (Sandi Hilal and Alessandro Petti) and the Decolonizing Architecture program at KKH Stockholm, 2024.
Let It Flood: Luca Danese and the Origins of Hydraulic Modernity, a research fellowship at the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal, 2023 (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)
Let It Flood: Luca Danese and the Origins of Hydraulic Modernity, a research fellowship at the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal, 2023 (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
2014
with Cooking Sections, Helene Kazan, Hannah Meszaros Martin
Kivalina: The Coming Storm
2014
with Cooking Sections, Helene Kazan, Hannah Meszaros Martin
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.
exhibitions:
Bonniers Konsthall, 2020
Meteorological Mobilities, Apexart, 2020
Forensis, Haus Der Kulturen der Welt, 2014
exhibitions:
Bonniers Konsthall, 2020
Meteorological Mobilities, Apexart, 2020
Forensis, Haus Der Kulturen der Welt, 2014
lectures and public talks
Triennale di Milano, “As Strong as You Can”, May 26, 2024
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal, July 6, 2023
Columbia GSAPP, MS Advanced Architectural Design, June 14, 2023
ETH Zurich, Chair of Architecture and Care, March 29, 2023
KKH Stockholm, Decolonizing Architecture course, October 6, 2022
KTH Stockholm, October 7, 2022
Goldsmiths College, London, conference “Border Environments”, May 13, 2022
Harvard GSD, Interdisciplinary Art and Design Practices course, April 6, 2022
Syracuse University in Florence, symposium “The Space/Times and Afterlives of Bonifica”, March 23, 2022
Princeton University School of Architecture, PhD pro-seminar led by Beatriz Colomina, Oct. 2019 and Nov. 2021
Bard College, “On (not) Staying at Home”, Oct. 22, 2021
Salon Suisse at Venice Architecture Biennale 2021, “Bodily Encounters”
Carnegie Mellon University, “Spaces of Containment and Care” lecture series, Feb. 2021
Konstfack Stockholm, conference “Pre- Mid- Post-”, Oct. 2020
Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam, conversation with Ivan L. Munuera, Oct. 2019
Contemporary Istanbul, conversation with Jumana Manna organised by The Delfina Foundation, Sept. 2019
Architectural Association, London, July 2019 - watch
Goldsmiths College, London, “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), May 2018
Manifesta 12, “The Heritage of Fascist Architecture” seminar, organized by DAAR and KKH, June 2018
Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam, conversation with Giovanna Borasi and Nabil Ahmed, March 2017- listen
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal, July 6, 2023
Columbia GSAPP, MS Advanced Architectural Design, June 14, 2023
ETH Zurich, Chair of Architecture and Care, March 29, 2023
KKH Stockholm, Decolonizing Architecture course, October 6, 2022
KTH Stockholm, October 7, 2022
Goldsmiths College, London, conference “Border Environments”, May 13, 2022
Harvard GSD, Interdisciplinary Art and Design Practices course, April 6, 2022
Syracuse University in Florence, symposium “The Space/Times and Afterlives of Bonifica”, March 23, 2022
Princeton University School of Architecture, PhD pro-seminar led by Beatriz Colomina, Oct. 2019 and Nov. 2021
Bard College, “On (not) Staying at Home”, Oct. 22, 2021
Salon Suisse at Venice Architecture Biennale 2021, “Bodily Encounters”
Carnegie Mellon University, “Spaces of Containment and Care” lecture series, Feb. 2021
Konstfack Stockholm, conference “Pre- Mid- Post-”, Oct. 2020
Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam, conversation with Ivan L. Munuera, Oct. 2019
Contemporary Istanbul, conversation with Jumana Manna organised by The Delfina Foundation, Sept. 2019
Architectural Association, London, July 2019 - watch
Goldsmiths College, London, “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), May 2018
Manifesta 12, “The Heritage of Fascist Architecture” seminar, organized by DAAR and KKH, June 2018
Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam, conversation with Giovanna Borasi and Nabil Ahmed, March 2017- listen
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