THE SYMPOSIUM OF CANICULA

A two-day programme on moving images, aesthetics and politics
Fondazione In Between Art Film

Monday, 26th October 2026

09:30 – 10:00

Welcome and curatorial introduction

  • Bruno Racine, director and CEO, Palazzo Grassi, Pinault Collection, Venice
  • Alessandro Rabottini, artistic director, Fondazione In Between Art Film
  • Bianca Stoppani, curator for the editorial and discursive programmes, Fondazione In Between Art Film
10:00 – 10:30

Focus on Canicula

  • Leonardo Bigazzi, curator, Fondazione In Between Art Film
  • Alessandro Rabottini, artistic director, Fondazione In Between Art Film
10:30 – 11:00

Blinded by It All: On Art, Agency, and Critical Distance (Lecture)

  • Daphne Dragona, assistant professor, Department of Audiovisual Art, Ionian University, Corfu; independent curator and writer
11:00 – 12:00

The Right to Sacrifice: Animalization, Superiority and Virility (Conversation)

  • Janis Rafa, artist
  • Daniela Zyman, curator and writer

Lunch break

14:00 – 15:00

Composting: The Life and Afterlife of Images (Conversation)

  • Yuyan Wang, artist
  • Rebecca Lamarche-Vadel, independent curator
15:00 – 15:30

Legal Imagination in a Time of Disasters (Lecture)

  • Xenia Chiaramonte, associate professor, Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage, Ca’ Foscari University, Venice
15:30 – 16:30

Camera Obscura (Conversation; in Italian with simultaneous interpreting in English)

  • Massimo D’Anolfi and Martina Parenti, artists
  • Enrico Camporesi, head of Research and Documentation at the Film Collection of the Musée national d’art moderne – Centre Pompidou, Paris

Break

17:00 – 18:00

The Left of Absence (Conversation)

  • Wang Tuo, artist
  • Alvin Li, curator, International Art, supported by Asymmetry, Tate Modern, London
18:00 – 18:30

Discussion and Round-up of Day 1

  • Xenia Chiaramonte, associate Professor, Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage, Ca’ Foscari University, Venice
  • Daphne Dragona, assistant Professor, Department of Audiovisual Art, Ionian University, Corfu; independent curator and writer

Moderated by Bianca Stoppani, curator for the editorial and discursive programmes, Fondazione In Between Art Film

Tuesday, 27th October 2026

09:30 – 10:00

Welcome and curatorial introduction

  • Bruno Racine, director and CEO, Palazzo Grassi, Pinault Collection, Venice
  • Alessandro Rabottini, artistic director, Fondazione In Between Art Film
  • Bianca Stoppani, curator for the editorial and discursive programmes, Fondazione In Between Art Film
10:00 – 11:00

Focus on The Trilogy of Uncertainties

  • Leonardo Bigazzi, curator, Fondazione In Between Art Film
  • Francesca Lantieri, architect, designer, and 2050+ partner
  • Ippolito Pestellini Laparelli, architect, curator, and 2050+ founder
  • Alessandro Rabottini, artistic director, Fondazione In Between Art Film
11:00 – 12:00

Inner Cinema (Conversation)

  • P. Staff, artist
  • Daniel Blanga Gubbay, writer and curator

Lunch break

14:00 – 14:30

Scaling Intensity (Lecture)

  • Doreen Mende, co-founder, Harun Farocki Institut, Berlin
14:30 – 15:30

Sonic Commons (Conversation)

  • Lawrence Abu Hamdan, artist
  • Damir Arsenijevic, professor of Literary and Cultural Studies, University of Tuzla
15:30 – 16:00

The Guernica Screen (Lecture)

  • Chema González, head of Film and New Media Department, Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid
16:00 – 17:00

In Proximity (Conversation)

  • Maya Watanabe, artist
  • Julian Ross, sector manager – Programming, Distribution and Exhibitions, Eye Filmmuseum, Amsterdam

Break

17:30 – 18:00

Dreams Against Images (Lecture)

  • Quinn Latimer, writer and head of the MA at the Institute Art Gender Nature, Basel Academy of Art and Design FHNW
18:00 – 19:00

The Afterlife of the Present: War, Memory, and Cinematic Time (Conversation)

  • Roman Khimei and Yarema Malashchuk, artists
  • Natalia Sielewicz, chief curator, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw
19:00 – 19:30

Discussion and Round-up of Day 2

  • Chema González, head of Film and New Media Department, Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid
  • Quinn Latimer, writer and head of the MA at the Institute Art Gender Nature, Basel Academy of Art and Design FHNW
  • Doreen Mende, co-founder, Harun Farocki Institut, Berlin

Moderated by Bianca Stoppani, curator for the editorial and discursive programmes, Fondazione In Between Art Film