Main Partner
Main Partner
In the time of transitions — ecological, digital, social, and geopolitical — art takes shape as a liminal space, able to inhabit uncertainty and translate complexity into sensitive forms of thought. Far from being a mere representation of reality, it becomes an epistemological practice: a cognitive and relational device through which to interpret and transform the present.
The talk offers a reflection on how the languages and institutions of contemporary art today act as strategic agents of change. Art not only observes transitions but inhabits and enacts them, experimenting with new forms of cultural production, governance, and participation. In this sense, it becomes a laboratory of possible futures, a place where a new aesthetic and political citizenship is exercised.
The conversation anchors itself in Turin’s candidacy for European Capital of Culture 2033, which embraces the theme of transitions as both a design paradigm and a field of political and cultural experimentation. The candidacy thus becomes a collective research process into the meaning of the contemporary: an urban laboratory that questions the relationship between art, community, and systemic transformation.
Speakers: Agostino Riitano, Director of the Candidacy of Turin for European Capital of Culture 2033; Marco Zappalorto, Head of International Strategy and Partnerships at OGR; Mara Loro, Director and Project Manager at Hangar Piemonte; Davide Quadrio, Director of the Museum of Oriental Art (MAO)
Language: italian
