The Restitution of Dignity
La restituzione della dignità.
CONVERSATIONS AROUND THE SAVVY JOURNAL ㅤ12.11.2022 ㅤ14:00–22:00
WITH ㅤMuna Mussie, Chiara Cartuccia, Theo Eshetu, Alula Pankhurst and the SAVVY.doc
AT 14:00 ㅤSAVVY.doc display
AT 18:00 ㅤTalk with Muna Mussie
AT 19:00 ㅤConversation with Theo Eshetu and Alula Pankhurst
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Access Our space is accessible by wheelchair
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The Restitution of Dignity is an international bilingual editorial project and a series of four printed and online issues of the SAVVY Journal investigating focusing on restitution, reparation, and repair. It addresses the specific context of Italy and its colonial histories as they reverberate in the present. As a collaboration between Archive Books and SAVVY Contemporary, we have been gathering and inviting people to curate and produce four special issues of the SAVVY Journal to address the restitution of colonial loot, the (im)possibility of repairing the crimes of Italian and European colonisation, as well as to reflect upon contemporary daily struggles of communities and individuals against structural racism in Italy and beyond.
After a first launch event in Florence, Italy, we will come together in Berlin with the artists invited to contribute to the journal's issues to discuss the topics resonating with their artistic practices. After closed work sessions with the artists and the editorial team, conversations will be opened to the public through a talk by artist Muna Mussie reflecting on topics of feminism, internationalism, Black Mediterranean and bodily practices, as well as a conversation between artist Theo Eshetu and anthropologist Alula Pankhurst, unfolding topics of restitution and rehabilitation within and beyond the Italian context. In the space of SAVVY.doc, visitors have the possibility to take a look at some of the texts for this project, together with the covers designed by artist Diana Ejaita.
Founder & Artistic Director | Fondatore & Direttore Artistico Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung
EDITORIAL TEAM | TEAM EDITORIALE Elena Agudio, Chiara Figone, Elena Quintarelli
ASSOCIATE EDITORS | EDITORI ASSOCIATI Malab Alneel, Omar Delnevo, Emanuela Maltese, Arianna Jakubowski
DESIGN Diana Ejaita, Sara Marcon
MANAGEMENT Lia Milanesio, Lema Sikod
COMMUNICATIONS | PR-COMMUNICAZIONI Anna Jäger
TRANSLATIONS | TRADUZIONI Emanuela Maltese, Gemma Maltese
Cooperation & Support This project is a cooperation between Archive Books and SAVVY Contemporary – supported by the Italian Council (9th Edition, 2020), a program to promote Italian contemporary art in the world by the Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity of the Italian Ministry of Culture.
Questo progetto é una collaborazione tra Archive Books e SAVVY Contemporary ed è realizzato grazie al sostegno dell’Italian Council (IX edizione, 2020), programma di promozione internazionale dell’arte italiana della Direzione Generale della Creatività Contemporanea del Ministero italiano della Cultura.
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