NABA is proud to present the "UMANITARIA IMMAGINA", promoted by Società Umanitaria di Milano in collaboration with the Academy and curated by Andrea Tinterri, unfolding in various multidisciplinary gatherings. The goal is to transform the spaces of Società Umanitaria (Via San Barnaba 48, Milan) into a laboratory capable of engaging, through various forms of relationship and exchange, a diverse audience on themes that interweave our present and, even more so, our near future. Talks, lectures, workshops, and exhibitions on themes that, although seemingly distant from one another, can define a complex canvas through which to imagine new perspectives.
"UMANITARIA IMMAGINA", February and March meetings
The first event will be "RASSEGNATI", two days dedicated to viewing and analysing video content produced using artificial intelligence, on February 15 and 27. According to the curator Alessandro Sambini, NABA lecturer, the dual interpretation of the event's title (rassegnàti - noun – and rasségnati - imperative) "Provokes and alludes to the impossibility of confining the theme in a stagnant valuative binary that seems to cast artificial intelligence as the end of a supposed human creative independence in favour of a content apocalypse".
On Tuesday, March 5, "UMANITARIA IMMAGINA" will continue with the first of two planned workshops: "Pedagogia della cura". Andris Brinkmanis, Bachelor of Arts in Painting and Visual Arts Course Leader, along with some students from the Academy's Milan campus, will focus on reciprocity and dialogue in public space, offering the audience a series of immersive and performative input to imagine together new ontologies of sharing.
On Tuesday, March 12, the anthropologist and NABA lecturer Andrea Staid, in conversation with the initiative curator Andrea Tinterri, will reconstruct the evolution of European anthropocentrism that has led to the current climate and environmental crisis. Starting from everyday practices like critical gardening, responsible shopping, and waste recycling, Andrea Staid proposes a new virtuous cultural model that can replace the current anthropocentrism.
In the second talk on Tuesday, March 26, authors Alessandro Bertante, Bachelor of Arts in Film and Animation Course Leader, and Gabriele Sassone, Academic Master in Art and Ecology Course Leader, will converse with the writer Sara Loffredi, moderated by Andrea Tinterri. During the evening, they will explore the concept of future, understood not only as a perspective, a story yet to be written, but also as something that travels alongside, but above all, that lies behind.
“UMANITARIA IMMAGINA”, April and May meetings
On Tuesday April 9, the day will be dedicated to the workshop “Abitare la trama”, envisioned and crafted by the curatorial collective Sinergie Naturali (composed of Francesca de Chiara, Giulia Bianchi, Matilde Crucitti, Francesca Bullo, alumnae of the Master of Arts in Visual Arts and Curatorial Studies. This initiative seeks to reconceptualise habitation as a living ecosystem, where profound relationships are interwoven between the plant world and humanity.
On May 7, in conjunction with the final talk of the “UMANITARIA IMMAGINA” series, the critic and curator Marco Scotini, NABA Visual Arts Department Head, through the exhibition “Disobedience Archive”, reaching its twentieth anniversary and set to be showcased at the upcoming Venice Biennale, will endeavour to address the issue of the relationship between art and society as one of the most pressing concerns of the contemporary era.
“UMANITARIA IMMAGINA”, the final event in June
The “UMANITARIA IMMAGINA” programme will culminate with the exhibition “Diversi presenti”, curated by NABA lecturer Stefano Serretta, featuring works by students of the Bachelor of Arts in Painting and Visual Arts, which will open on June 20. Employing a variety of languages, the students will occupy and reinterpret the spaces of the garden and the Glicini cloister. The exhibition title, “Diversi presenti”, highlights the diverse geographical and cultural backgrounds of the exhibiting students, as evident in the themes and execution of the displayed works.
The exhibition will be accompanied by a publication to historicise the event and to expand the related contents and initiatives.
“UMANITARIA IMMAGINA”
From Thursday, February 15, to Thursday, June 20
At Società Umanitaria
Via San Barnaba 48, Milan