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Thursday 1 January 1970

Conversation with Adelita Husni-Bey


Saturday 5 April, 17.00
MAXXI B.A.S.E., Graziella Lonardi Buontempo Hall – admittance free

Adelita Husny-Bey, an artist featured in the exhibition Utopia for sale? with the video Story of the heavens and our planet, meets the MAXXI public.

introduced by
Anna Mattirolo Director MAXXI Arte

moderator
Monia Trombetta Curator MAXXI Arte

speakers
Adelita Husni-Bey Artist
Gabi Scardi Critic e curator
Stefania Vannini Head of the MAXXI Education Department
Leandro Ventura Teacher at the Luciano Manara Classic High School

3, 4 and 5 April, 11.00 – 15.00
WORKSHOP AGENCY – POWER GAMES
Gallery 5

With the support of the other works on show, the Adelita Husni-Bey workshop project transforms part of the museum into a temporarily independent zone for utopian proposals.
The students from Rome’s Manara Classical High School will be analysing together with the artist the relationships of power characterising capitalist society. Divided into different groups, the participants are invited to take on the roles of social players: politicians, bankers, journalists and workers

The introduction of the performative dimension to an exhibition space permits the museum to develop a more direct relationship with the contemporary social context. Here, through the mediation of the museum educators, the artist, the students and the general public commit to an experiment in collaboration and the production of a creative project for a common alternative