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

Lanfranco Aceti’s The Crocodile’s Lament continues his ambitious four-part series exploring the environmental and cultural crises of our time. Following A River of Crocodile Tears and The Home of the Crocodile and leading to The Flight of the Crocodile, this third chapter focuses on the Tiber River, transforming it into a site of memory, resistance, and renewal. In collaboration with Tevereterno, IPER Festival delle Periferie,

THE CROCODILE’S LAMENT: RECLAIMING THE RIVER, RESHAPING THE NARRATIVE2025-02-20T17:49:02+00:00

THE CROCODILE’S HOME: THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME

Lanfranco Aceti’s The Crocodile’s Home confronts the intertwined environmental and cultural crises of the 21st century through the intimate lens of the home. Premiering in the spring of 2024 with a thought-provoking installation at the Museo dell'Altro e dell'Altrove (MAAM) in Rome, the project transforms rivers—often dismissed as mundane elements of the landscape—into powerful loci of refuge, memory, and contested identity. Aceti employs the

THE CROCODILE’S HOME: THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME2025-02-20T18:05:22+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? Lanfranco Aceti’s A River of Crocodile Tears dives into the heart of his four-part series

CRY ME A RIVER OF CROCODILE TEARS: FLAVA TIBER2025-02-20T18:06:45+00:00

ACCURSED

  What is in a curse? And who are the accursed? The artist, Lanfranco Aceti, has created a performance titled Accursed and curated by Areti Leopolou that addresses the theme of the Thessaloniki Biennale, Imagined Homes, by bringing the privacy of the home into the public space. The accursed plebs—lower class and middle class alike—voice their angers and frustrations at the Thessaloniki Concert Hall in the form

ACCURSED2020-05-27T18:18:30+00:00

CLOUD AND MOLECULAR AESTHETICS

Cloud and Molecular Aesthetics is a volume that situates a critical discourse on the molecular data–cloud and aesthetics within contemporary experiences of art and society. It reflects varied perceptions and current thinking by artists, curators, scientists, and theorists in comprehending the appropriation and colonization of the cloud. The cloud can be seen as a veiling of information, where it becomes clouded, foggy, fuzzy, obscure, or

CLOUD AND MOLECULAR AESTHETICS2017-07-18T13:33:34+00:00

ARTFORUM, 1967

I am currently working with Janice Glowski and Charles Csuri to the catalog Sketchbooks of Time that follows the exhibition by the same name held at Kasa Gallery in Istanbul. This image, courtesy of the artist, will be appearing in the catalog in order to showcase how things have changed and continue to change in the history of contemporary art. "I can't imagine ARTFORUM ever

ARTFORUM, 19672018-02-06T18:38:40+00:00

The New LEA Moving On

Ozden and I often joke about the above snippet of video from Doctor Who, that represents 'The Editor in Chief.' Although Ozden and I have not reached 'world domination' yet, we continue to work on the Leonardo Electronic Almanac (LEA) ensuring its transformation into an international publication and research hub. Six months ago we completed the transfer from the old system to the new Wordpress

The New LEA Moving On2018-02-06T18:38:44+00:00

MY ABSTRACTS AND ARTICLES…

I am now finally able to put in order all of my abstracts and articles. I have decided to start with the abstracts of papers published over the years. It will be a job that will take several months since most papers need reviewing and updating. Something to look forward to with the hope of achieving both a digital archive of activities that took place over the

MY ABSTRACTS AND ARTICLES…2013-01-21T19:35:31+00:00

ONCE MORE FROM THE BEGINNING

A new website signs another beginning for something new. There have been several websites, blogs and projects in my past that have underpinned research and aesthetic developments. Each website was focused on one particular aspect: artworks, writings, academic endeavors... This new website is conceived as an archive for both past works and projects in development. It should allow the viewer to quickly search and identify

ONCE MORE FROM THE BEGINNING2018-02-06T18:39:04+00:00
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