THE SYMPOSIUM OF CANICULA
A two-day programme on moving images, aesthetics and politics
Fondazione In Between Art Film
Monday, 26th October 2026
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
Focus on Canicula
- Leonardo Bigazzi, curator, Fondazione In Between Art Film
- Alessandro Rabottini, artistic director, Fondazione In Between Art Film
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
The Right to Sacrifice: Animalization, Superiority and Virility (Conversation)
- Janis Rafa, artist
- Daniela Zyman, curator and writer
Lunch break
Composting: The Life and Afterlife of Images (Conversation)
- Yuyan Wang, artist
- Rebecca Lamarche-Vadel, independent curator
Legal Imagination in a Time of Disasters (Lecture)
- Xenia Chiaramonte, associate professor, Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage, Ca’ Foscari University, Venice
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
The Left of Absence (Conversation)
- Wang Tuo, artist
- Alvin Li, curator, International Art, supported by Asymmetry, Tate Modern, London
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
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
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
Inner Cinema (Conversation)
- P. Staff, artist
- Daniel Blanga Gubbay, writer and curator
Lunch break
Scaling Intensity (Lecture)
- Doreen Mende, co-founder, Harun Farocki Institut, Berlin
Sonic Commons (Conversation)
- Lawrence Abu Hamdan, artist
- Damir Arsenijevic, professor of Literary and Cultural Studies, University of Tuzla
The Guernica Screen (Lecture)
- Chema González, head of Film and New Media Department, Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid
In Proximity (Conversation)
- Maya Watanabe, artist
- Julian Ross, sector manager – Programming, Distribution and Exhibitions, Eye Filmmuseum, Amsterdam
Break
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
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
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