Terra Infecta
A Moving Border
Rights of Future Generations
Arrivederci ad Arborea
EXHIBITIONS
Vulnerable Beings
Medical Borders
PEDAGOGY
Al Masha + Difficult Heritage
The Interior Inside Out
CRITICISM
andrea.bagnato
[at] me.com
Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm
2023–2024
The Decolonizing Architecture program (DAAS) is a post-master program run by Alessandro Petti, based on horizontal and site-specifc pedagogy. In 2023–24, the course focused on the concept of al Mashaa’ – a form of communal land use that was found throughout the Levant and the Ottoman Empire.
The year’s program drew a line connecting the history of al Mashaa’ with the territorial condition of Southern Italy, once subaltern and now marginal. We worked first in Salento, where a group of artists are exploring collective forms of inhabitation and cultivation; and then in Sicily, where a former Fascist village is being transformed into a laboratory for decolonial thought and practices.
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Difficult Heritage
Borgo Rizza (Carlentini)
May 6–10, 2024
Besides his role as a tutor, Andrea Bagnato was the curator of Difficult Heritage, an annual gathering hosted together by DAAS, the Royal College of Art in London, Museo delle Civiltà in Rome, and the city of Carlentini. Set in a former Fascist village near Siracusa, the week-long intensive program consisted of collective learning, walks, assemblies, and performance with a wide range of local and international guests.
Participants included Sandi Hilal, Alessandro Petti, Emilio Distretti, Judith Wielander, Luigi Coppola, Pelin Tan, Cooking Sections, Matteo Lucchetti, Ana Maria León, Agostino Quaranta, and more.
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