Animot presentation ‘Rights and visions. Non-human animals and law’.

26 November at 6.30 p.m.
On Tuesday, Connecting Cultures will host in its spaces at the Fabbrica del Vapore, the first Milanese presentation of the latest issue of Animot Rights and Visions Non-human Animals and Law edited by Monica Gazzola.

Speakers will be: Gabi Scardi, Valentina Avanzini, Martina Macchia, Monica Gazzola, Simona Da Pozzo, Maria Cristina Giussani, Simona Segre Reinach e Ginevra Quadrio Curzio

Crediti immagine: Simona Da Pozzo, de Bruchis

Animot is a semi-annual journal founded in 2017 that deals with animality studies, focusing in particular on non-human animals (Animal Studies) and, consequently, on a non-speciesist idea of humanity. The journal stands as a tool for exploration that intersects philosophy and architecture, natural sciences and art history, political theory and literature.

Now in its tenth year, Animot returns to question one of its founding themes: the rights of non-human animals or, even better, the way in which our relationship with animality fits into a sphere in which, as Monica Gazzola writes, the non-human presence is invariably found to be aphonic.

In particular, the theme of the trial will be addressed as the place of the triumph of the power of the human word, the place of debate but also of accusation, of condemnation but also of shared reasoning on a common Justice. Historically, the law has always expressed itself on the use and life of animals without ever questioning their perspective. Hence Animal Studies takes the form of a tool for the investigation of our contemporaneity aimed at investigating an idea of humanity that is fully aware of its interdependence with other species.

Mercoledì 25 settembre 2024, H.18.30 c/o Quartiere Intelligente– Scala Montesanto, 3 80135 – Napoli

L’incontro Prospettive Animali parte dalla volontà e necessità di presentare a Napoli il lavoro di Animot. Dal 2017 la rivista semestrale attiva un dialogo che coinvolge practicioners e teorici di diverse discipline umanistiche e scientifiche per ricollocare noi animali umani all’interno di una prospettiva animale più amplia e ripensare la nostra posizione nel mondo.

Una tavola rotonda aperta per esplorare il ruolo della creatività nello stimolare questo cambio di prospettiva coinvolgendo trasversalmente artisti, biologi, imprenditori della moda e culturali.

Oltre a Valentina Avanzini e Gabi Scardi, all’incontro saranno presenti: Marco Abbro e Francesca Cocco (fondatori Scobyskin), Maria Cristina Di Stasio (fondatrice Quartiere Intelligente), Maria Battistino (fondatrice Le cose belle), Simona Da Pozzo (artista), Igor Grubic (artista), Simona Segre-Reinach (docente di Cultura della Moda). L’incontro sarà moderato da Nicola Ciancio.

Prospettive Animali è il quarto appuntamento del ciclo di incontri a scadenza libera Conversazioni Domestiche per Azioni Pubbliche, curato da Nicola Ciancio e promosso da Ex-Voto in collaborazione con Animot e Quartiere Intelligente.

5-8 September 2024 Gradisca d’Isonzo

The third episode of INTERSPAZIO took place at Invisible Cities: the Festival curated by Associazione Quarantasettezeroquattro partner of INTERSPAZIO project together with Lavanderia a Vapore, Zona K, Periferico Festival and Orlando Festival.
In this context, our work raised questions about the relationship between the publicness and entertainment, both from a fruition and political perspective.

June 23 – July 7, 2024

Ex-Lanificio, Scala A 2°Piano, Porta Capuana, Naples

The Preennial of Water is a trans-disciplinary gathering that explored local and international relations to create a new grassroots Biennale of Water that will take place in Naples in 2026. The leading partners of the project invited artists, architects, activists, writers, researchers, designers, planners and others to imagine, discuss, create and design effective and durable responses to a range of social and environmental issues relating to water. In the context of the Commoning Lab, many stories, interests, practices and desires emerged. On July 4th, the collective reflections have been presented via the exhibition È arrivata l’acqua to which the community activated during the workshop contributed.

The partners leading this long term project are: Laboratorio Architettura Nomade, CoolCity, Commonspace, Common Views, together with Casaforte, ABC Water Company, Made in Cloister, Laboratorio di Urbanistica e Progettazione Territoriale University Federico II Naples.

wild edibles

Together with Ali Kemal Ertem (Maquis Projects), we proposed to the visitors to transform a meadow in front of Porta Capuana in to a (most likely ephemeral) botanical garden of wild edible herbs. This action, Wild Edibles is a simple seed we hope will sprout in some unpredictable way. The action roots in Ali Kemal’s Maquis Project and has born in conversation with Maria Pina Usai during the Common Lab.

The aim of this small intervention is to create, nurture and promote knowledge about a local, drought-resistant foragable zone. To achieve this, we are designating this small park as an extension of the formal institutional botanic garden of Naples.

In doing so we hope to highlight the potential of this humble site as a valuable study area in the city, serving as an experimental resource for all who experience it, and demonstrating the resilience and ecological benefits of native plant species. This will underscore the importance of drought-resistant indigenous flora in sustainable landscape planning for liveable cities. It is particularly important as it relates to water management by city authorities at a time when the stress of our changing climate and related water supply scarcities are causing many city authorities to limit or ignore water needs of parks and public water amenities. The degradation of these amenities can only add to the sense of public anxiety related to climate change.

The dry fountain that stands close to the site of our action serves as one more reminder of the ecological crisis which the world faces right now. Our project aims to contribute to a healing process – as we reconsider and plan our cities in a way that respects and works in harmony with the land, water, flora and fauna around us. ‎

On the 23rd of June RAVE 2024 comes to life with the opening of the collective exhibition Under the same tree.

The exhibition is physically rooted in the historic village of Soleschiano di Manzano, among the old stone houses and centuries-old plants. 
The participating artists are: Camilla Alberti, Antonio Bardino, Luchezar Boyadjiev, Loretta Cappanera, Simona Da Pozzo, Igor Grubić, Ilare, Ryts Monet, Liliana Moro, Ivan Moudov, Maria Elisabetta Novello, Penzo+Fiore, Anna Pontel, Fabiola Porchi, Laura Pozzar, Nada Prlja, Janis Rafa, Eleonora Rinaldi, Giuseppe Stampone.


RAVE deals with the role of contemporary art in relation to the need to rethink ourselves through biocentrism and antispeciesism. It is curated by Tiziana and Isabella Pers.

On 7 June, the course undertaken with the students of the Liceo Vico as part of Arte dal Vivo concludes with the presentation of the artistic process, documented under the direction of Rosa Maietta, and the permanent work at the institute: Half a Flood (o l’arte di misurare piene invisibili).

Presentation tour of ‘Brac. Book Recipes Artists Cooking’: 17th May MamBo; 19th May Podere Castellare; 24th May Cremona Contemporanea Art week; 25th May La casa degli artisti, Milan.

The book, published by Corraini, brings together vegan and vegetarian recipes by chef Sacha Sandri Olmo and 78 works by the artists who revolve around the contemporary art bookstore Brac. A marvellous object to which I contributed the photograph Prelievo Orientale, part of the Orbital View project, which I associated with the culinary prodigy Seitan Masala.

image on the right: the book hold by Susanna Ravelli on the “Prelievo Orientale” page at Casa degli Artisti during the exhibition “Home”.

For fifteen years, the BRAC Bookshop in Florence has been combining good vegetarian and vegan cuisine and publishing dedicated to the languages of contemporary art. A formula that is an expression of the passions of the two owners, Sacha and Melisa: an imaginative chef specialising in vegetarian and vegan cuisine who is in love with comics and illustration, and a bibliophile with an interest in contemporary art in all its forms of expression (art, theatre, dance, cinema, photography).

Since its opening in 2009 to date, the Brac has organised and hosted around 1,800 meetings and book presentations, promoted and realised several festivals, events and exhibitions. This volume collects 80 recipes, born and served within the BRAC, entrusted to the free interpretation of 78 contemporary artists.

“They include all of Scripta’s guests – as Pietro Gaglianò writes – as well as beloved friends, regular visitors to the bookshop and its events, people who have passed through and who remain ever-present, together with others who have never been to Brac but who, through virtuous or virtual ties, through friendship or out of affinity, form a fundamental part of its universe of art, books and words”.