Friday, September 18, 5:30 PM–7:30 PM
Saturday, September 19, 10:00 AM–1:00 PM
Workshop by Alessandra Ferrini
BECOMING ACCOUNTABLE.
ETHICAL AND CREATIVE APPROACHES TO THE ARCHIVE OF COLONIALITY
GAMeC
What is the archive of coloniality, and how does it speak to us today about the present? What responsibility comes with approaching these materials from our specific positions? The workshop led by artist Alessandra Ferrini explores these questions around three key terms: positionality, visuality, and accountability. Through hands-on work with sensitive materials, participants will be introduced to critical and practical approaches for navigating the complexity of this archive. Participants will reflect on how our gaze is built on power relations and will learn the terms, methodologies, and ethical tools necessary to deconstruct and challenge whiteness as a normative system of oppression.
Free event; booking required: biglietteria@gamec.it
Saturday, September 19, 9:00 PM
Performance-Lecture by Alessandra Ferrini
GADDAFI IN ROME: THE EXPANDED SCRIPT
In collaboration with Performatorio
Gaddafi in Rome: the Expanded Script (2018–2021) transforms the news reports generated during the 2009 meeting between Muammar Gaddafi and Silvio Berlusconi into a script that analyzes the memory of this event and its media coverage, highlighting the persisting (neo)colonial relations between Italy and Libya.
Through text, archival imagery, footage, and amateur documentation of the meeting, Alessandra Ferrini’s performance-lecture reflects on how international politics was staged and embodied by two “strongmen” on opposite sides of the Mediterranean border, prompting a reflection on the present-day repercussions of that event.
Free event, in English with Italian support
Booking required: Eventbrite
Performatorio / Via Nazario Sauro 3A, Bergamo
Friday, September 25, 7:00 PM
Talk with Silvia Semenzin
INTERNET IS NOT A PLACE FOR WOMEN
Palazzo della Ragione, Piazza Vecchia
The Internet was born as a space of freedom, but its history is often told while forgetting the women who built it. An encounter with digital sociologist, researcher, and feminist activist Silvia Semenzin to explore how digital platforms—despite having been places of belonging for marginalized communities—have transformed into infrastructures that reproduce violence, misogyny, and new forms of toxic masculinity. Between algorithms, the body, desire, and resistance, we will examine the responsibility of technology and the possibility of reclaiming it through activism, education, and practices of freedom to imagine more conscious digital ecosystems.
Free event; booking required: biglietteria@gamec.it