Alessandra Ferrini on Coloniality and Holding Oneself Accountable

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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 Ferrini on Coloniality and Holding Oneself Accountable

Diasporic Perspectives.

30 minutes

9 months ago

Alessandra Ferrini on Coloniality and Holding Oneself Accountable

Alessandra Ferrini: expanding the archive of coloniality and making oneself accountable

Alessandra Ferrini is a visual artist, researcher, and educator working between the UK and Italy. Her research is concerned with Italian colonial and Fascist history, memory, and heritage. Her work is rooted in lens-based media, postcolonial and critical whiteness studies, and historiographical and archival practices. Ferrini investigates the Italian archive of coloniality and its racial politics, through expanded documentary filmmaking, writing and education projects. She holds a PhD from the University of the Arts London and the outputs of this research - ‘Gaddafi in Rome: Dissecting a Neocolonial Spectacle’ - have been awarded the most prestigious contemporary art prize in Italy, the Maxxi Bvlgari Prize 2022, and have been exhibited at the 60th Venice Biennale curated by Adriano Pedrosa. In this episode we talk about engaging with the Italian history of colonial genocides from the UK; public heritage, fascist legacies and education; thinking about artistic practice through theoretical research; the archive of coloniality and other archives; how to make oneself accountable; and translation as an anticolonial practice.

Website: https://www.alessandraferrini.info/
Academia:https://arts-london.academia.edu/AlessandraFerrini
IG: @alessandra.ferrini