u-/dys- What is psychogeography? Born in the 1950s within Guy Debord’s Situationist International, psychogeography is an aesthetic and political practice that explores the relationship between urban space, behavior, and affect. Through methods such as the dérive, a walk guided by perceptual stimuli, and the détournement, the critical reuse of dominant

Mostrina Mostrina is an exhibition project curated by Marco-Augusto Basso and Martina Montagna. Playing on the homonymy between the diminutive form of the Italian word ‘mostra’ (exhibition), and the insignia of military honors, “mostrina” aims to trigger a process of critical deconstruction of contemporary history and the role of artistic

Foot drop   Foot drop is a solo exhibition by Marco-Augusto Basso (1995), a project that brings together a series of sculptures conceived as an investigation into the physical, symbolic, and emotional relationships that exist between heterogeneous objects and situations. In this new production, the artist investigates the possible material

Charles Darwin and Steve lrwin Owned the Same Tortoise   In 1835, Charles Darwin left the Galápagos Islands on board the Beagle, taking some giant tortoises with him. One of them, named Harriet, was born around 1830 on the island of Santa Cruz – which, curiously enough, Darwin never visited.Harriet

HEY, YAY! The project, realized concurrently with the spaces of DOCK20 in Lustenau, inhabits the grey area of the fusion of happening, concert and performance.The space is set up to disorient the spectator and make him imagine that he is attending a concert that has already taken place, merging with

Discorso in forma di paesaggio (Discourse – The expression of thought by means of speech; in particular, it can involve two or more persons, and thus be a conversation.) Death of Master is a collective formed by Marco-Augusto Basso, Edoardo Fumagalli and Denise Tosato. Together they fuse tensions between bodies

AGON/MIMICRY/ALEA/ILINX   AGON/MIMICRY/ALEA/ILINX explores the realm of relations through four concepts that reflect various aspects of social, cultural, and personal dynamics between the community of Palazzo Bronzo. The exhibition uses play as a tool to navigate the tensions between control and chaos, rules and freedom, the individual and the collective.

Uncanny Valley   Più di 50 anni fa, Masahiro Mori, all’epoca professore di robotica presso il Tokyo lnstitute of Technology, scrisse un saggio su come immaginava le reazioni delle persone a robot che avessero un aspetto e un comportamento simili a quelli umani. In particolare mostrò come, al variare della

SACRA SAGRA “Sacra sagra” is the third episode developed by Palazzo Bronzo for FARE COLLETTIVO, the new exhibition series of Platea Palazzo Galeano. With FARE COLLETTIVO, Platea aims to explore the phenomenon of artistic collectives, asking the invited artists about the reasons for forming collectives and the needs for spaces

Three Songs “Three Songs” is an intervention between gallery spaces and underground cellars, entrusted to Marco-Augusto Basso and Flavia Spasari, it is the fourth part of TORRSO’s Un/Natural exhibition series, dedicated to the mobile, ubiquitous, unpredictable, industrious, and living nature of culture, for Pesaro Capitale della Cultura 2024. We witness