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Art/Anthropology
PhD @iulm_university
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Works with @alessandro.rabottini @fondazioneinbetweenartfilm

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We went to a café on the road to find someone willing to drive us.
Then the road thinned out. Then disappeared.
Desert. Dust. Distance.
And two teenagers in the car, not quite knowing why we were going so far to see something built by a man they had never heard of.
And then, there we were.

Hansjörg Voth’s “Himmelstreppe”, “Goldene Spirale”, “Stadt des Orion”, rising from the Marha Plain. Their scale is difficult to understand from photographs. Their remoteness even more so.

The “Himmelstreppe”: severe, almost archaic, a staircase climbing towards something that cannot quite be reached, the sky.
The “Goldene Spirale”: mathematics made inhabitable, curling low against the earth, precise and bodily at once.
The “Stadt des Orion”: a constellation brought down from the night sky and fixed, tower by tower, into the desert.

Geometry. Earth. Labour. Distance. Time.

All the things a photograph leaves out.

Voth worked on these projects for more than two decades. An abstract system became a wall. A line became a stair. A constellation became architecture.

Something imagined acquired weight. And shadow. And heat.

Standing there, only 6 of us, the persistence behind the work felt almost as present as the work itself.

Perhaps because of the two teenagers, I kept returning to this. I kept thinking about what it means to carry an idea for years. To protect it from practicality, fatigue, doubt. To keep returning to it until something that exists only in the mind begins, slowly, to occupy space in the world.

At this particular moment, that felt important.

Not as a lesson. Not as optimism.
More as a form of evidence.

We crossed the desert to find the evidence of someone else’s determination.

Maybe that was the real monument! by @anninacastelli

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a month ago

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Back from Zürich, where I had the pleasure of taking part in the symposium “The Conventions of the Unconventional”, organized by the Collegium Helveticum and the University of Zürich.

I have no photos from the conference itself, so this is the most accurate report I can offer:

1. My presentation (actually a different sail, the one here is painted by Kerry James Marshall and currently on view at the Kunsthaus Zürich - detail).
2. The audience’s reaction (Omar Victor Diop’s work from the exhibit “Almost a Paradise. Photography of the Colonial Era in Contemporary Art” at the Museum Rietberg, Zürich).
3. The other speakers (actually a work by Wendy Red Star from the same exhibition at Rietberg - detail).
4. Me, after a full day of talks and discussions (after Caravaggio).

End of scientific report.

Thank you to the organisers and to all colleagues that presented! taken in Zürich, Switzerland by @anninacastelli

4 months ago

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A few days ago I flew in from Barcelona and arrived late, without breath and a little dizy at the Victoria and Albert Museum @vamuseum for the “Making Ecologies” symposium. To my surprise I walked into a room full of people laughing, and I remember thinking how rare it is to encounter that kind of energy in a seminar room. There was curiosity, generosity, and a real sense of collective attention.

It was a privilege to be among the speakers that day, surrounded by thoughtful work and conversations. I left feeling unexpectedly hopeful. Hopeful because so many people share that the challenge is not to dominate the world around us, but to become more attentive to it.

Thank you to the organizers (@eco_plexis Nikoletta Karastathi, Hannah Auerbach George, and Alicia Gonzalez-Lafita) for curating such a generous and inspiring space of conversation, to all the other speakers and especially to @ceciliacharlton for sharing the panel and the day with me, and to @heidijalkh for the pictures. taken in Victoria and Albert Museum by @anninacastelli

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$𝗦𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗮 𝗥𝗼𝘀𝗮 è 𝗾𝘂𝗶, 𝗻𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗮 𝗺𝗶𝗮 𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗼 22 aprile 2026 17:00 - 19:00 DAMSLab/Auditorium Piazzetta P.P. Pasolini 5b, Bologna Proiezione del documentario e incontro con le autrici Anna Castelli e Delfina Stella in dialogo con Elena Cervellati (Antropologa \ IULM) e Cristiana Natali (Storica della danza \ Unibo). Vi aspettiamo a Bologna. Per info: https://disci.unibo.it/it/agenda-eventi/evento/santa-rosa-e-qui-nella-mia-mano-palma-production-2024 taken in DAMSLab / La Soffitta - Università di Bologna by @anninacastelli$

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