Alessandra Cianelli - On the Practice of Wonder and the Need for an Archive

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Diasporic Perspectives.

Barbara Spadaro

4 episodes

5 months ago

Diasporic Perspectives. Unlearning Imperial Histories with Libyan and Italian artists.

Diasporic Perspectives is a series of conversations with artists from Italy and Libya and their perspectives on Coloniality, Archive, Heritage and Translation. It is a project by Dr Barbara Spadaro, Lecturer in Italian History and Culture at the University of Liverpool (UK), inspired by Ariella Aisha Azoulay’s book ‘Potential History: Unlearning Imperialism’. Each episode of the podcast is an interview with one artist about the artwork, ideas and questions explored in their practice. Each conversation reveals different perspectives on the past, present, and potential futures of these memories.

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Diasporic perspectives is produced by Botafuego Audio and Dr Barbara Spadaro with a grant of the British Institute of Libyan and Northern African Studies (BILNAS, https://www.bilnas.org/). Sound editing, effects and production by Botafuego Audio and Michael Bayliss. Interviews by Dr Barbara Spadaro.

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Alessandra Cianelli - On the Practice of Wonder and the Need for an Archive

Diasporic Perspectives.

23 minutes

9 months ago

Alessandra Cianelli - On the Practice of Wonder and the Need for an Archive

Alessandra Cianelli - On the Practice of Wonder and the Need for an Archive/ Sulla pratica della meraviglia e la necessità di un archivio

Alessandra Cianelli is a researcher, artist, and cultural practitioner based in Naples, trained in Yoga studies in the lineage of Krishnamacharia from South India. Her work explores the intersection of memory and historical narratives through various mediums, including video, audio, texts, installations, performances, and lectures. Cianelli's research engages with biological and biographical archives, examining themes such as coloniality, migration, Southern epistemologies and rural archetypes. Her project "Il paese delle terre d’Oltremare" [The land of the overseas territories] explores through performative interventions the ruins of the fascist empire exhibition (Mostra d’Oltremare) at the outskirts of Naples. Cianelli’s work has been exhibited at the Museo Madre in Naples and internationally. She is the founder of "Dormire", an informal residency project exploring memory through artistic research and production, and a member of the Centro Studi Postcoloniali e di Genere at the University of Naples "L'Orientale".

Website: https://www.alessandracianelli.com/
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In this episode we talk about the practice of wonder/wander and the colonial archive, an expedition into the ruins of a fantaesotic complex in Naples, South-South migration and colonialism, Francesco Rosi’s film Cristo si è fermato ad Eboli (1979), seas of wheat and seas of sand (from Irpinia to Libya), a journey on the footsteps of the ancestors, selfpositioning and the roots of the colonial self.