ISOLA UTOPIA: RiMAFLOW AND ISOLA PEPE VERDE, CONCRETE UTOPIAS
a project by Isola Art Center

in the context of
PRACTICES AS AN INTERSECTION IN A FRAGILE ENVIRONMENT
curated by Claudio Zecchi

Program:

10.30-17.00- Isola Utopia Video (a video review in loop, a web doc, books, prints etc) (click below to see the details)

17.00 From "Fight-Specific Isola" to "Isola Utopia"
Meeting with open debate
The concept of "Fight-Specific", Introduction by Antonio Brizioli.
Interventions by Andris Brinkmanis, Giusy Chechola, Elvira Vannini and others,
with contributions about Isola Utopia by Isabell Lorey, Gerald Raunig, Gianfranco Marelli, Norbert Heinz Jocks.
Moderator Claudio Zecchi.

18.30 Sounds from Utopia Sound performance by Steve Piccolo, Vincenzo Onida, and friends.

19.00 Concrete Utopias: RiMaflow and Isola Pepe Verde, two experiences of reconvertion and of self-management in comparison.
Meeting and discussion with the workers of the reconverted factory Rimaflow, and the activists of the community garden Isola Pepe Verde.

Moderator Antonio Cipriani.
Film: Occupy, Resist, Produce - Rimaflow" 34’ 20’’, 2014 (it/eng), by Oliver Ressler & Dario Azzellini (first screening in Milan)
Video: Occupare Orizzonti – Isola Art Center and Isola Pepe Verde, 5'38", 2013 (it), by Camilla Topuntoli.