ON ARTISTIC UTTERANCE, THE LABOUR AND OUR POLITICAL TOOLS

30.09.2025

TALK — 30 September, 5–9 PM at NERO
We are happy to announce an evening of conversation organised in collaboration with Taring Padi and Institute of Radical Imagination (IRI)

𝘖𝘕 𝘈𝘙𝘛𝘐𝘚𝘛𝘐𝘊 𝘜𝘛𝘛𝘌𝘙𝘈𝘕𝘊𝘌, 𝘛𝘏𝘌 𝘓𝘈𝘉𝘖𝘜𝘙 𝘈𝘕𝘋 𝘖𝘜𝘙 𝘗𝘖𝘓𝘐𝘛𝘐𝘊𝘈𝘓 𝘛𝘖𝘖𝘓𝘚 brings together art workers, scholars, and curators to discuss the dynamic between labour and artistic production in different fields of struggles, from anti colonial and capitalism, to feminist and ecological, from local communities to international solidarity against genocidal regimes. On top of that, artificial intelligence reshapes these terrains of resistance: images and video are produced and circulated with unprecedented speed and economy; state and corporate algorithms mediate visibility and invisibility with little accountability; and new infrastructures of control confront activists and artists alike. This symposium asks what it means for art to continue to act as a medium of struggle in the age of intelligent machines.

Invited speakers:

Alexander Supartono (Professor at Edinburgh Napier University and Taring Padi member) on collective labour
Donatella della Ratta (Performer, curator and Professor at John Cabot University) on soft harm and the silent force of speculative violence
Emanuele Braga (Artist, philosopher and activist, IRI member) hacking AI and resistance
Fabiola Fiocco (Independent curator and researcher) on labour politics and art as infrastructure
Fitriani Dwi Kurniasih (Artist, Taring Padi member) archiving the resistance of indigenous people
Giulia Crispiani (Artist and writer) claims & broken ties
Leonardo Impett  (Assistant Professor at Cambridge University) AI and history from below
Marco Baravalle (Researcher, curator and activist, IRI member) alter-institutional work. Reactivating antagonism in the age of neoliberal governance and toxic philanthropy
Sara Alberani (Independent curator and organizer) on class, labour and boycott strategies

30 September 5-9pm, Lungotevere degli Artigiani 8/b