Lecture by Cristina Baldacci (Università Ca’ Foscari, Venice)
Giornata del Contemporaneo 2023
Venice and Sydney share similar waterscapes and biennial art events. How are they facing new critical approaches to art and the environment? Starting from her research on Venice and the Anthropocene, Ass. Prof. Cristina Baldacci will try to answer this and other questions on the relationship between Italy and Australia’s contemporary scene.
With an ideal connection with the Talanoa Forum, curated by artist Yuki Kihara for the Powerhouse Museum (10-12 October), where Ass. Prof. Baldacci will participate in a panel on the semantics of ‘weather’ in visual art, the lecture at the Institute is included in the Program of the “Giornata del Contemporaneo” an initiative of AMACI in collaboration with Italy Ministries of Culture and Foreign Affairs.
Connections between the contemporary artistic practices of Italy and Australia are seldom explored, but the similarities between Venice and Sydney lend themselves as a fruitful terrain for a critical eco-guide. The Giardini of the Biennale, an anthropic presence within the Lagoon environment, the Australia and New Zealand pavilions in Venice, in which some of the recent shows (like My Horizon by Tracey Moffat) have explored themes such as climate change and migrations, and post-colonialism, are a few of the backdrops that prof Baldacci will expound on.
Cristina Baldacci is an academic and author examining art, archives and visual forms of knowledge. An associate professor (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice) in contemporary art, she is also affiliated with THE NEW INSTITUTE Centre for Environmental Humanities (NICHE) –where she is the principal investigator of the Ecological Art Practices research cluster – and a former fellow with ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry. Baldacci is the author (along with other publications) of Archivi impossibili. Un’ossessione dell’arte contemporanea (2016), a monograph on archiving as artistic practice, and the co-editor of Over and Over and Over Again: Reenactment Strategies in Contemporary Arts and Theory (2022) and Venice and the Anthropocene: An Ecocritical Guide (2022).
The lecture will be in ENGLISH.
Free entry. Limited seats.
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