PDR EP02 – A New Abnormal

Critical Spatial Practice,

Taranto,

2019

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.

EP02’s curatorial framework takes inspiration from the thought of the environmental philosopher Glenn Albrecht whose definition of “abnormality” refers to the planetary chronic distress caused by capital driven processes.

Artistic direction

Post Diaster

Curators

Post Diaster, Roberta Mansueto

Set Design

fabulism, Post Disaster

Contributors

Ethel Baraona Pohl, Canti Magnetici (Donato Epiro, Andrea Penso, Gaspare Sammartano), Derek MF Di Fabio + m, Paolo Patelli, studioconcreto (Luca Coclite, Laura Perrone) + Sergio Solombrino, takecare (Roberta Mansueto), Urbetc, ZicZic + Elena Campa

Graphic Design

Simone Melis

Photo

Pierfrancesco Lafratta