Lanfranco Aceti

About Lanfranco Aceti

Lanfranco Aceti is known for his social activism and extensive career as an artist, curator, and academic. He is a visiting professor and research affiliate at ACT @ Massachusetts Institute of Technology and professor and director of the Arts Administration Program at Boston University. He is the founder of The Studium: Lanfranco Aceti Inc., the founder and Director of OCR (Operational and Curatorial Research in Contemporary Art, Design, Science and Technology), and founder and Director of MoCC (Museum of Contemporary Cuts).

THE CROCODILE’S LAMENT: RECLAIMING THE RIVER, RESHAPING THE NARRATIVE

The Crocodile’s Lament is a groundbreaking project by Lanfranco Aceti that confronts the environmental and cultural crises of our time. Created in collaboration with Tevereterno, IPER Festival delle Periferie, organized by the Azienda Speciale Palexpo, and supported by curators Giorgio de Finis (Museo delle Periferie), Rosario Pavia (Tevereterno), and Alessandro Melis (NYIT), this ambitious three-part series delves into the contested history, present, and future

THE CROCODILE’S LAMENT: RECLAIMING THE RIVER, RESHAPING THE NARRATIVE2024-12-17T15:04:06+00:00

CRY ME A RIVER OF CROCODILE TEARS: FLAVA TIBER

“[…] hunc inter fluvio Tiberinus amoeno verticibus rapidis et multa flavus harena in mare prorumpit […]” Virgil. What remains of the mythology of the blonde Tiber, strictly linked as it is to the birth of Rome and over 2000 years of history, as its waters dwindle season after season? The  epochal changes of waters in the twenty-first century speak of a revolutionary upheaval that

CRY ME A RIVER OF CROCODILE TEARS: FLAVA TIBER2024-03-13T08:55:30+00:00

PLEASE FLIP SOMEWHERE ELSE

Now that I am less occupied with the works of art I created for the Venice Architecture Biennale, I have the time to write a post that I wanted to publish for a rather long time. It is about the economics of art and the role that buyers, collectors, commissioners [1], and patrons play in my life. Since I look at this relationship both

PLEASE FLIP SOMEWHERE ELSE2022-04-11T09:58:32+00:00

PERIPHERAL BUT NOT IRRELEVANT

"Silence does not mean surrender!" Lanfranco Aceti, Athens, 2018. Performance. Curated by Artemis Potamianou. Peripheral but not Irrelevant: Peripheries' Contribution to the Centrality of the Globalized Cities (Periferico ma non Irrilevante: Il contributo delle Periferie alla Centralità delle Città Globalizzate) is the talk that I will give to discuss some of my recent artworks installed at and performed as part of the Italian Pavilion, Resilient

PERIPHERAL BUT NOT IRRELEVANT2021-05-22T23:32:25+00:00

ZERO FUCKS TO GIVE: A TALK, A MANIFESTO, AND A WORK OF ART

"One world approved thy wisdom; another, mine." Antigone, Sophocles Zero Fucks to Give is a work of art for Platforms Project, Athens, Greece, May 14-31, 2020. It consists of a talk, a manifesto, and a video performance. It is part of a larger set of artworks started in 2017 with the same title. Zero Fucks to Give: A Talk, a Manifesto, and a Work of

ZERO FUCKS TO GIVE: A TALK, A MANIFESTO, AND A WORK OF ART2022-01-25T19:09:10+00:00

LIVING AFTER THE APOCALYPSE

"Even if you encounter opposition, have conviction and finish what you start. People in the end will understand." Kotoko Wamura Living After the Apocalypse is a curatorial proposal I conceived and developed when I was invited to submit a conceptual framework for an art and architectural biennial in 2011. While I was writing and preparing the proposal an earthquake happened in Japan and the

LIVING AFTER THE APOCALYPSE2023-12-11T09:35:08+00:00

DIGITAL MEDIA AND DEMOCRACY

Digital Media and Democracy, aka From Democracy to Post-Citizenship is a panel I am organizing at MIT for the Media in Transition 10 conference entitled Democracy and Digital Media with the assistance of Rob Halperin. The panel was developed following the encouragement of Professor William Uricchio, Department of Comparative Media Studies at MIT. The panel seeks to engage with and discuss issues related to contemporary

DIGITAL MEDIA AND DEMOCRACY2020-05-27T17:21:09+00:00

REDUCED

Reduced: Uninfluential, Disintegrated, and Bent is a new exhibition and sculptural installation by Lanfranco Aceti. With a series of writings on paper, paintings, photocopies of stones, foliage, and grass, rolled out fax paper, videos, and vinyl cutouts the exhibition explores the meaning of reduced forms of democracy and citizenships. The consumption of what is left, the remainder to use Baudrillardian terminology, is a hypermarketed but

REDUCED2020-03-16T20:22:32+00:00

BUT I CAN’T HELP MYSELF

But I Can't Help Myself: Against the Resurgence of the Millennial Issues of Ignorance and Idiocy is Lanfranco Aceti's inaugural lecture at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne (KHM). The lecture focuses on the role of contemporary politics in reshaping our understanding of society and the modalities for practicing art. Professor Aceti introduces a series of concepts and frameworks to define his aesthetic approaches

BUT I CAN’T HELP MYSELF2020-05-27T17:22:22+00:00
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