Daphne Dragona, Assistant Professor in the Department of Audio and Visual Arts, is taking part in a symposium taking place at the Teatrino di Palazzo Grassi on 26 and 27 October 2026. The symposium is organised by the Fondazione In Between Art Film to mark the group exhibition ‘Canicula’, which is currently on display in Venice at the Complesso dell’Ospedaletto.
Building on the curatorial, artistic and architectural concepts embodied by the exhibition – which utilised the conditions of blinding light and scorching heat as a material and metaphorical framework, within which matter, people and ideas are subjected to immense pressure – the two-day symposium examines the aesthetics and politics of art and exhibition-making amidst today’s cultural, political, social and climatic crises.
Daphne Dragona will be giving a lecture entitled “Blinded by It All: On Art, Agency, and Critical Distance".
Speakers include 2050+ architects Ippolito Pestellini Laparelli and Francesca Lantieri, artist Lawrence Abu Hamdan, scholar Damir Arsenijevic, curator Leonardo Bigazzi, writer Daniel Blanga-Gubbay, curator Enrico Camporesi, scholar Xenia Chiaramonte, artists Massimo D’Anolfi and Martina Parenti, curator Daphne Dragona, curator ChemaGonzález, artists Roman Khimei and Yarema Malashchuk, curator Rebecca Lamarche-Vadel, writer Quinn Latimer,curator Alvin Li, theorist Doreen Mende, curatorAlessandro Rabottini, artist Janis Rafa, programmer Julian Ross, curator Natalia Sielewicz, artist P. Staff, researcher Bianca Stoppani, artist Wang Tuo,artist Yuyan Wang, artist Maya Watanabe and curator Daniela Zyman.The symposium is curated by Bianca Stoppani and will be held in collaboration with Palazzo Grassi, Pinault Collection Venezia.
For more information, see: https://inbetweenartfilm.com/
