Elvira Lamanna (M.Res in Curatorial/Knowledge, 2015-2016)

In 2012 I graduated in Art History at “La Sapienza” University of Rome. My dissertation Art and institutional critique: beside criticism, beyond the art system was set out to explore, from the late ‘60s until the ‘90s and 2000s, those artistic practices of institutional critique that triggered critical and analytic processes of the economic, political, social and cultural implications in the art system. In 2013 I obtained a Master's degree in Educational Management for contemporary art at “Amedeo Avogadro” University of Eastern Piedmont in Turin. My thesis’s title was Participatory art models between social media and public space. This study examined what are outcomes and criticisms by adopting social media to public art projects with social, political and anthropological aims. During the master, I was working both with a.titolo, a collective of art critics which deals with public art projects with a social role and Associazionedidee - Pistoletto Foundation, that applies experimental educational projects (as Montessori method) to contemporary art. In 2013-2014 I worked with a contemporary art magazine “Arte e Critica” in Rome and I currently write for a contemporary art magazine “Juliet art magazine”. I am undertaking an MRes in Curatorial knowledge.

Research project: My research proposal aims to investigate the nexus between radical pedagogies and the work conducted by the Center of Urban Pedagogy (CUP), a non-profit organisation established in Brooklyn, New York, in 1997, which deals with art, urban activism and pedagogy.