Alessandra Faccini
Research Assistant (DIST, Politecnico di Torino)
Biography
Alessandra Faccini is a PhD candidate in Architecture. History and Project at Politecnico di Torino and an art curator. She gained a bachelor’s (University of Verona) and master’s degree (University of Turin) in Theoretical Philosophy. After work experience in publishing and communication, she was selected for the 2023 edition of Campo, the curatorial studies and practices course of Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo (Turin). Currently, she is part of Krampo, a female collective based in Turin and operating in the sector of art education and radical pedagogies.
Research interests
Her research lies at the intersection of politics, art and architectural theory by focusing on artistic commoning practices and ‘alter-institutional’ spaces meant as grassroots, activist and highly situated realities which experiment with alternative economies and collective organisational forms. She is interested in the infrastructural aspect from both material and theoretical perspectives, co-management processes, and care politics. Moreover, she looks at transnational networks as a third way between the hyper-localisation tendency of such experiences and the dominant model of vertical growth of cultural institutions. She wrote about (artistic) labour and precarity, the evolution of the artist’s role and creative strategies against the neoliberalisation of the art sector in Europe.
Selected publications
Contested Soils, CUNY Brooklyn College Conference ‘Resisting the Divides: Contemporary Philosophy of Art,’ October 7-8, 2024
Italian Artistic Activism in Time of Precarity: Labour, Autonomy and Social Change, Association for Art History’s Summer Symposium 2024 ‘Agents of Change. Process, Transformation and Decentring Art’s Histories,’ Liverpool John Moores University, June 28.
Contested Soils, CUNY Brooklyn College Conference ‘Resisting the Divides: Contemporary Philosophy of Art,’ October 7-8, 2024
Italian Artistic Activism in Time of Precarity: Labour, Autonomy and Social Change, Association for Art History’s Summer Symposium 2024 ‘Agents of Change. Process, Transformation and Decentring Art’s Histories,’ Liverpool John Moores University, June 28.
Contacts: alessandra.faccini@polito.it
TEAM
Giovanna Astolfo
Co-Investigator
Camillo Boano
Co-Investigator
Edoardo Ciuffreda
Research Assistant
Antonio Di Campli
Research Assistant
Alessandra Faccini
Research Assistant
Manuel Grimaldi
Research Assistant
Stefano Mastromarino
Research Assistant
Richard Lee Peragine
Research Assistant
Antonio Stopani
Co-Investigator
Inappropriable is a research, a collective investigation and a condition of possibility which sets out to interrogate practices of inhabitation, infrastructures of life, of marronage and fugitive worldling, focusing on labour ecologies in territories of migration: frontiers where bodies, spaces and labour are reconfigured through extractive and plantation-like capitalist processes of accumulation, dispossession and exclusion.