Lucia Pietroiusti: Talk and Events

Talks and events

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Part of the Infinite Ecologies Marathon, Serpentine, 13 July 2024.
With Kalpana Arias, Marcus Coates, Annalee Davis, Belinda Holden, Caroline A. Jones, Sandra Knecht, Remi Kuforiji, Eva Papamargariti, Yinka Shonibare, Graeme Smith and Carla Subrizi.

The Sacred, the System and the Place of Shelter

Presentation at FRAME Contemporary Art Finland’s Sustainable Visual Arts Day, 24 June 2024

In conversation with Love Ssega at 5x15: Art & Nature

Kew Gardens, 8 May 2024

The Art Of… Kapwani Kiwanga

Video contribution on the occasion of Kapwani Kiwanga’s Canadian Pavilion at the 60th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, 2024. Produced by Goodman Gallery.

Infinite Ecologies Marathon: The Prelude

14 October 2023, Serpentine, London

Hospicing Modernity: A conversation with Vanessa Machado de Oliveira Andreotti

Published on e-flux Journal #139, October 2023.

The Worldbuilders: The Influence of Fantasy Literature on Production Design

With Deb Riley, Will Htay and Adam Brockbank. Moderated by Lucia Pietroiusti, curated by Jo Paton Htay and Will Htay. British Library, 24 February 2024

The Hope Forum 2024

Video contribution for The Hope Forum, La Biennale di Venezia, 2024.

Genders of the Forest

Conversation with Filipa Ramos, Institute Art Gender Nature HGK Basel FHNW. 24-25 May 2023.

Conversation with Tai Shani

Tate Modern Lates, London
28 April 2023

The Last of Us

A conversation about worldbuilding and ends of worlds, with John Paino (Production Designer/The Last of Us) and Liam Young at The World Around Summit, Guggenheim Museum, New York
22 April 2023

Ecology as Anticipation

Conversation with Shumon Basar, Global Art Forum 16: Predicting the Present, Dubai, UAE

3 March 2023

Life Perceives

Senses of Purpose: Talk at Life Perceives symposium, Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts, University of Sussex

20 January 2023

Senses of Purpose

Lecture at the Fondazione Ratti’s symposium, Livability, curated by Martina Angelotti and Annie Ratti.

Como, 22-23 October 2022.

Create for Tomorrow: The London Culture and Climate Conference

1 July 2022. Barbican, London

To enflesh and ensoul that complex, messy, fleeting thing that is living on this planet: More-than-Human paradigms and senses of purpose

30 June 2022. CreaTures, Seville.

Panel: Art for Hope at The Hope Forum

Art2030 for the United Nations Agenda for Sustainable Development & UNESCO ResilientArt

22 April 2022, Venice

In conversation with Amitav Ghosh, The World Around Summit

In conversation with Amitav Ghosh at The World Around Summit, 5th February 2022, Guggenheim New York.

Deep Time, Deepdream, DeepMind

Talk at Casino Luxembourg, 27 January 2022

On having a sense of Purpose

Talk and workshop at CoMuseum Conference, 1-2 December 2022

TEDxDanubia Countdown: Drops Make an Ocean

20 September 2021

Gallery Climate Coalition conference: Decarbonising the Art World

Barbican, London, 24 November 2021.

The Only Lasting Truth Is Change: talk at BEK, Bergen

19 November 2021

The Art Newspaper podcast

In conversation with Ben Luke, 5 November 2021

In conversation: Lina Lapelyte and Rugile Barzdziukaite

Teatro Argentina, Rome, 25 June 2021

Talk: Intelligent Earth

Part of Speculative Futures London. With Olivier Cotsaftis.

28 May 2021

Talk: Art as a Catalyst for Change

Expo Chicago / Malmö Konstmuseum. 19 May 2021.

theVOV Unites: On Art and Botany

22 April 2021

Talk / Panel: Assembly for Permacircular Museums, ZKM Critical Zones

21 April 2021. Part of Assembly for Permacircular Museums, ZKM Karlsruhe, 21-23 April 2021.

Trees in Forests, Webs, Onions: Talk at Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris

20 April 2021. Part of the conference, Making and Unmaking Exhibitions — Sustainability in Times of Planetary Crisis.

Featured

In conversation with Revital Cohen & Tuur Van Balen, Heavens

Published January 2021. Artists Revital Cohen & Tuur Van Balen discuss their ongoing project, Heavens in the context of ecologies, invisible global infrastructure and exhibition-making.

The Shape of a Circle in the Mind of a Fish: The Understory of the Understory

The fourth instalment in an ongoing series of festivals on consciousness and intelligence across species. Curated by Lucia Pietroiusti and Filipa Ramos.

Art, Tech and the Environment: 3-part video series

Presenter, Art + Technology season 3, episode 5, parts 1-3
September 2020

Growing Gaia

Talk, Therme Wellbeing Culture Forum, Berlin. September 2020.

In conversation with Isabel Lewis: Sensory Studies for Social Innovation

Sensory Studies for Social Innovation, part of The Artist as Consultant series hosted by E-Werk Luckenwalde.
August 2020.

Talk: Interspecies I/O

A brief talk at the Interspecies Conversations Public Event 2020 in collaboration with the Coller Foundation, Google and MIT's Center for Bits and Atoms.

Talk: Declaring Emergency: Museums and the Climate Crisis

This discussion, hosted by the MA Curating the Art Museum course at the Courtauld Institute of Art, focuses on the courses of action available to institutions and artists concerned with the climate crisis, and what influence these stakeholders can actually have on a local and global level.

Talk: HangarBicocca

‘In the Understory of the Understory’, talk at HangarBicocca, Milan conference, Foreste Plurali, 22 November 2019

Talk: Architectural Association

‘How to Think with Others?’ Part of Territorial Agency’s series, Plan the Planet, 7 October 2019.

Panel: The Carbon Footprint of Contemporary Art

12 June 2019, ArtBasel. With Catherine Bottrill and Andrew Stramentov. Moderator: Chris Hampton

Past talks and events (selected)

In conversation: Duke University Social Practice Lab: The Ongoing Biennial, 24 February 2021
Lecture: Staedelschule: Paranoids, Parasites, Diviners and Healers, 2 February 2021
Workshop: Williams College, 30 November 2020
Panelist: IKT: Tools for Sustainable Curating, 17-18 October 2020
Panelist: Eden Project / University of Exeter: Art, Ecology, Emergency, 17 June 2020
Moderator: Institut français, Night of Ideas: Remapping Nature, 30 January 2020
Moderator: Royal Academy of Arts, Designing from a Depleted World, 20 January 2020
In conversation: Matadero/Microhabitable: Marisol de la Cadena, 13 December 2019
Moderator: Design Museum, Designing for the Planet, 4 December 2019
Panelist: University of Kent: Is Extinction Imminent? Imagining Existential Risk in a Time of Climate Emergency, 19 November 2019
Panelist: Therme Art: The Right to Refuse, 23 November 2019
Moderator: Frieze Talks: Performing Trouble, 6 October 2019
Host: Frieze Academy / UAL: Sustainable thinking: An evening of talks, 10 September 2019