Post Disaster Works

Post Disaster Rooftops is a critical spatial practice staged on the rooftops of Taranto, an industrial city in Southern Italy which is undergoing a long-term ecological and economic crisis. The project understands the city as a manifesto of the western contradictions, whose condition is a starting point for an intersectional and collective investigation on urgent contemporary issues.

EP01’s curatorial framework refers to an article published in the New York Times that portrayed Taranto as a fading city, the evidence that the country failed in dealing with the socio-economic disparities between the North and the South. In the attempt of overturning this definition, we understand the city as an ideal laboratory for alternative urban practices, as well as a fertile ground to investigate global and urgent issues:
– Nature VS Culture
– Decolonize marginal territories / Decentralize cultural production
– Public spaces as Agonistic spaces