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A two-month residency at FormaHQ

Gaia Di Lorenzo and Francesca Pionati
20 September - 20 November 2024
FormaHQ, London

Forma are delighted to announce that Gaia Di Lorenzo and Francesca Pionati will be participating in a two-month residency at FormaHQ. Throughout the residency, they will delve into their shared interest in alternative pedagogies in relation to aesthetic and epistemic practices and investigations, as a tool for social engagement and intervention.

An essential part of the research will focus on how cultural organisations and pedagogical experiments can facilitate long-term value-creation processes within the communities they engage. At the same time, they are interested in questioning and understanding the various modi operandi employed by these organisations to survive within or outside existing institutions.

Their residency at FormaHQ will allow Pionati and Di Lorenzo to bring these common interests into dialogue, with a specific focus on the UK context. The artists will be working towards integrating the research findings into their respective practices while at the same time aiming at the development of future collaborative endeavours.


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​Gaia Di Lorenzo and Francesca Pionati

Residency dates
20 September - 20 November 2024

Open Studios
18:00 - 21:00
19 November 2024

FormaHQ, London
SE1 4GW

Credits
Gaia Di Lorenzo and Francesca Pionati's residency has been made possible thanks to generous funding from Lazio Innova and the Italian Cultural Institute of London.

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Gaia Di Lorenzo and Francesca Pionati
20 September - 20 November 2024
FormaHQ, London

Forma are delighted to announce that Gaia Di Lorenzo and Francesca Pionati will be participating in a two-month residency at FormaHQ. Throughout the residency, they will delve into their shared interest in alternative pedagogies in relation to aesthetic and epistemic practices and investigations, as a tool for social engagement and intervention.

An essential part of the research will focus on how cultural organisations and pedagogical experiments can facilitate long-term value-creation processes within the communities they engage. At the same time, they are interested in questioning and understanding the various modi operandi employed by these organisations to survive within or outside existing institutions.

Their residency at FormaHQ will allow Pionati and Di Lorenzo to bring these common interests into dialogue, with a specific focus on the UK context. The artists will be working towards integrating the research findings into their respective practices while at the same time aiming at the development of future collaborative endeavours.

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Artists’ studio: Gaia Di Lorenzo and Francesca Pionati, FormaHQ, London. November 2024. Supported by Lazio Innova and the Italian Cultural Institute of London.

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Artists’ studio: Gaia Di Lorenzo and Francesca Pionati, FormaHQ, London. November 2024. Supported by Lazio Innova and the Italian Cultural Institute of London.

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Artists’ studio: Gaia Di Lorenzo and Francesca Pionati, FormaHQ, London. November 2024. Supported by Lazio Innova and the Italian Cultural Institute of London.

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Artists’ studio: Gaia Di Lorenzo and Francesca Pionati, FormaHQ, London. November 2024. Supported by Lazio Innova and the Italian Cultural Institute of London.

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A salon & open studios
18:00 - 21:00
Tuesday 19 November 2024

Invited speakers: Wassim Z. Alsindi, Roisin Agnew, Alice Amati and Giulia Vandelli

On Tuesday 19 November, the artists will open up space at FormaHQ for visitors to meet with them and other Forma studio holders to learn more about their practices, and encounter works in progress. During the session, Pionati will share two new filmworks, Di Lorenzo will present a series of new drawings, Daniella Valz Gen will offer a short reading, and Grzegorz Stefanski will screen a video from his Sleepers series.

Alongside the sharing of works this evening, Gaia and Francesca have taken the opportunity to invite fellow practitioners and curators to FormaHQ. Throughout their residency, Gaia and Francesca have focused on making connections with specific individuals and organisations in London with a common interest in shared pedagogies. This evening's speakers have been carefully selected and are illustrative of the wide range of people the artists have had the opportunity to build bonds with whilst at Forma.

Guided by the artists, the invited practitioners will speak about their work, discuss their organisations and consider: which working methodologies, knowledges and material resources have been put into place for such spaces to exist? And which instead to ensure its survival, continuity and growth?

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A Salon and Open Studios led by Gaia Di Lorenzo and Francesca Pionati, 19 November 2024, FormaHQ, London. With guest speakers Wassim Z. Alsindi, Roisin Agnew, Alice Amati and Giulia Vandelli. Supported by Lazio Innova and the Italian Cultural Institute of London.

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A Salon and Open Studios led by Gaia Di Lorenzo and Francesca Pionati, 19 November 2024, FormaHQ, London. With guest speakers Wassim Z. Alsindi, Roisin Agnew, Alice Amati and Giulia Vandelli. Supported by Lazio Innova and the Italian Cultural Institute of London.

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A Salon and Open Studios led by Gaia Di Lorenzo and Francesca Pionati, 19 November 2024, FormaHQ, London. With guest speakers Wassim Z. Alsindi, Roisin Agnew, Alice Amati and Giulia Vandelli. Supported by Lazio Innova and the Italian Cultural Institute of London.

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A Salon and Open Studios led by Gaia Di Lorenzo and Francesca Pionati, 19 November 2024, FormaHQ, London. With guest speakers Wassim Z. Alsindi, Roisin Agnew, Alice Amati and Giulia Vandelli. Supported by Lazio Innova and the Italian Cultural Institute of London.

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Biographies

Gaia Di Lorenzo is a Rome-based artist and educator whose work navigates the complex dynamics of collective behaviors and their influence on self-identification processes. Di Lorenzo’s practice often manifests in intricate, multi-layered representations that reflect the fragmented and misleading nature of collective interactions.

Francesca Pionati is an artist and researcher interested in the relationships between politics, legal systems and the Southern Italian territory. Her work investigates ways in which formal and informal urban architectures and infrastructures retain trauma, as well as strategies of resistance and commoning that emerge in response to institutional violence.

In Rome, the two artists collaborate through CASTRO, an independent educational program founded in 2018.

Wassim Z. Alsindi is the founder and creative director of the 0xSalon, which conducts experiments in post-disciplinary collective knowledge practices. A veteran of the timechain, Wassim specialises in conceptual design and philosophy of peer-to-peer systems, on which he writes, speaks, teaches, and consults. He has an editorial column at the MIT Computational Law Report, and he co-founded MIT’s Cryptoeconomic Systems journal and conference series. Wassim has curated arts festivals, led a sculptural engineering laboratory and published experimental music, satirical theatre, fiction, games, poetry, and speculative scripture.

wassim.pubpub.org | @wassimulacrum

The 0xSalon is a collaborative endeavour which critically interrogates digital culture through discourse events and residencies, producing scholarly and creative interventions in the process. We are conducting an ongoing, non-profit experiment in knowledge sharing and collective cultural production. Stewarded by 0xSalon team members, our community researches topics, organises events, and authors lore, theory, poetry, music, games, theatre, and visual art.

0xsalon.pubpub.org | @0x.salon

Roisin Agnew is an Italian-Irish filmmaker and researcher based in London. She works as a games writer for PlayStation and is in development with a feature film with Tailored Films and XYZ. She's directed The Ban, a documentary about British censorship during the Troubles in Northern Ireland. She’s a PhD student at Goldsmiths University’s Centre for Research Architecture and runs a screening series with filmmaker Gerard Castellvi.

@rosin_agnew_ @cra_goldsmiths

Alice Amati is an Italian gallerist and curator based in London. She obtained her BA in Arts and Culture from Maastricht University and her MA in Art Galleries and Museum Studies from Manchester University. In 2023 she opened her eponymous gallery working with British and international early-career artists, previously holding positions at leading British and international galleries such as David Zwirner. She is a founding member Apollo Painting School, a non-profit alternative educational programme for emerging artists, and an Associate Lecturer at Teesside University in the MA Curating.⁠

@_aliceamati @apollopaintingschool

Giulia Vandelli is a London-based curator and art researcher. She holds an MA in Contemporary Art Theory from Goldsmiths University, London. She works as Programme Curator at Freelands Foundation, a non-profit organisation working to broaden access to art education and the visual arts in the UK. Prior to her current role, she worked in several London-based art organisations and galleries, including the David Roberts Art Foundation, Michael Werner Gallery, and Richard Saltoun Gallery. Amongst other projects, in the past she collaborated with the non-profit organisation MuseoCity and co-curated Skinscapes at Unit 1 Gallery | Workshop in London.

@giulia_vandelli @freelandsfoundation

Residency dates
20 September - 20 November 2024

Open Studios
18:00 - 21:00
19 November 2024

FormaHQ, London
SE1 4GW

Credits
Gaia Di Lorenzo and Francesca Pionati's residency has been made possible thanks to generous funding from Lazio Innova and the Italian Cultural Institute of London.

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