ReSignifications: The Black Mediterranean conference and exhibition in Palermo, June 6-9, 2018
New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, NYU Florence La Pietra Dialogues, the NYU Institute of African American Affairs, Harvard University’s Hutchins Center for African & African American Research and the University of Palermo are pleased to present ReSignifications: The Black Mediterranean. This conference, held in Palermo on June 6-9, joins a series of international conversations, including Black Portraitures, breaking new ground in the fields of African and African Diasporic art, literature, cultural theory, history, and political practice. Scholars, writers, artists, and cultural activists from around the world gather in the heart of the Mediterranean to reason together about issues of representation, migration, diaspora, slave-trade, border, mobility, citizenship, and human rights.
Happening from April 10th to 15th this year. The 2018 edition reveals, through an unusual observation lens, the contemporary Middle East, with its theme this year, #MiddleEast. The festival wants to shift the attention, for the first time, on the storytelling that millions of individuals - from the Palestinian mother to the jihad fighter, from the professionals of the great urban realities to the young people curious about new life experiences. Middle East Now deals with cinema, art and contemporary culture , focused on strong themes of the contemporary world, as a powerful tool for knowledge of reality and cultural integration in the Middle East.
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How Do Humans and Plants Interact?: The Florence Experiment at Palazzo Strozzi
From April 19 to August 26 Palazzo Strozzi will host The Florence Experiment, a site-specific project by artist Carsten Höller and scientist Stefano Mancuso, curated by Arturo Galansino, director of Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi. The exhibition investigates the way human beings and plants interact and influence each other.
