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
“[…] 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
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
Histories, Theories and Practices of Sound Art May 15 – 16 – 17, 2014 Venues: Goldsmiths, University of London, May 15 and 16, 2014; The Courtauld Institute of Art May 17, 2014. Conference website at: https://ocradst.org/soundartcurating/ Traditionally, the curator has been affiliated to the modern museum as the persona who manages an archive, and arranges and communicates knowledge to an audience, according to fields of
DEADLY CUTS TO THE ARTS: THE ART OF SURVIVAL, RESISTANCE OR FIGHT? by Lanfranco Aceti Art-Athina - International Contemporary Art Fair Faliro Pavilion (Taekwondo) Hellenic Olympic Properties 2 Moraitini str., 175 61 Palaio Faliro Athens, Greece Sunday May 19, 2013, from 15:00 to 16:00 Chaired by: Artemis Potamianou Curator & Co-ordinator for Art Athina 2013: Contemporaries & Platform Project A talk at the Art-Athina -
We Have Come to Shack Up with You is a new art project by Lanfranco Aceti. Lanfranco Aceti Inc. sponsors 10 return train trips from London to Wendover, to the country home of the current Prime Minister. In the spirit of sacrifice and in order to share the costs of the current debt, perhaps the Prime Minister may consider providing accommodation in the extra number of rooms
