7 September Public Gardens
8-10 September Teatro Massimo Terrace
The talks will be both in Italian and English
South Talks is a philosophical and artistic symposium that explores the concept of South as a poetic space, a state of mind, a praxis of resistance far from the hegemonic system.
Local and international artists and curators are invited to talk and share their practices, and through which, trace an analysis of the social and contemporary art issues.
Main Themes
- Act, react, decolonize: The Southern question today
- New pedagogies: critic to the hegemonic thought
- Theory of Praxis: social agency and aesthetic practice
Thursday, September 7th | Public Gardens
8 pm | Irit Rogoff (Goldsmiths, University of London, UK): Singularising Knowledge
In the past we assumed we knew what ‘education’ was about; an encounter with the world at another level through a set of personal transformations. We also knew what ‘research’ was about; an investigation into the world around us in order to ground bodies of knowledge. With the advent of ever more virulent neo liberal managerialism and rampant cognitive capitalism we have had to constantly revise our understanding of both, so as not to lose their capacity for critical and resistant invention. If we pursue a model of knowledge as singularity, never universal and constantly reinventing its alliances with far flung insights, practices, and protocols, we might have a form of learning that is not so easily captive by dominant cultures of evaluation and prediction.
9 pm | Introduction. Praxis and artistic paths in dialogue
Giovanni Columbu (Laboratorio di Comunicazione Militante, director), Claudia Losi (artist), Valeria Parrella (writer)
Friday, September 8th | Teatro Massimo Terrace
7 pm | Experimenting new pedagogies: critic to the hegemonic thought
with Ornella d’Argostino (C.Arte d’Imbarco, Carovana SMI, I), Juan Esteban Sandoval (Fondazione Pistoletto – Città dell’arte), Federico Zappino (I), coordinated by Enrica Puggioni
9 pm | Peter Mayo (University of Malta) in dialogue with Lisa Parola (Turin)
Peter Mayo, in dialogue with Lisa Parola, will shed light on the importance of the Gramscian thought for the development of the critical approach to school education, cultural education in general and adults education, contemporary art as a pedagogic tool.
10 pm | Marina Fokidis (Documenta14 – Athens, GR): South as a State of Mind
Saturday, September 9th | Teatro Massimo Terrace
7 pm | Act, react, decolonize. The Southern question today
with Luka Bogdanic (University of Zagabria, HR), Houria Bouteldja (Parti des Indigènes de la République, FR), Gianfranco Rebucini (EHESS), Atomic Culture (Malinda and Mathew Galindo, Curatorial platform, NYC), coordinated by Francesco Bachis (University of Cagliari)
9:30 pm | Alfredo Jaar (RCH): The Gramsci Trilogy
Screening The Ashes of Pasolini
“The Gramsci Trilogy is a series of project that I have dedicated to Antonio Gramsci, one of the most extraordinary thinkers of the 20th Century. Gramsci is one of the most lucid and illuminated intellectuals of our times. His radical political thinking coupled with his formidable cultural analysis are, in my view, more necessary than ever today to confront the new fascism threatening in the 21st century.” Alfredo Jaar
Sunday, September 10th | Teatro Massimo Terrace
6 pm | The assembly of workshops
7 pm | Stephen Squibb (e-flux, occupy Boston NYC): Beyond Hegemony: Gramsci in the 21st Century
8.30 pm | Theory of Praxis: Political Action and aesthetic practice
with Andreco (I), Leonardo Boscani (I), Fawzi Ismail, Cesare Pietroiusti (Fondazione Lac O Lemon), Stephen Squibb (e-flux, NYC)