Massimiliano Nicola Mollona

Qualificazioni Accademiche________________________________________________

PhD in Social Anthropology 2003. London School of Economics

MSc in Social Anthropology 1998 London School of Economics

Laurea in Business Economics 1996 110/110.

Organizzazione de Lavoro, Università’ Commerciale Luigi Bocconi

Attivita' Professionale e Didattica

2003 - 2022

Docente e Direttore del Corso Economia Politica ed Antropologica BA & MA Goldsmiths, University of London

2005 - 2022

Docente e Direttore del Master in Antropologia Visuale (MAVIS) Goldsmiths, University of London

2003 - 2022

Docente e Direttore dei Corsi  Arte ed Anthropology e Antropologia Visuale. BA & MA Goldsmiths, University of London

Affiliazioni

2023 Fellow. Auerbach Institute for Advanced Studies, Cologne.

2022 BAK, UTRECHT Global Fellow & Royal Anthropological Institute.

2021 Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm; & Citatdellarte Fondazione Pistoletto, Biella.

2015 Stanford University, Massachusetts

2014 Onassis Centre, Athens

2013 École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS)

2012 Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)

Attivita' Professionali____________________________________________

2023 Curatela della sezione arte contemporanea nella mostra "Sciamani: Comunicare con l’invisibile” Palazzo delle Albere, Museo di Arte Contemporanea di Trento (MART)

2020 al presente 

IRI - The School of Mutation

2017 al presente 

IRI -Institute of Radical Imagination Presidente. 

2017 al Presente

LUC- Laboratory of Urban Commons (LUC) Athens, Grecia. 

2015 - 2016

Direttore Artistico della Biennale di Atene (AB5-6) Athens, Grecia.

2015 - 2017

Co-Direttore Artistico della Bergen Assembly Bergen, Norway

2014 al presente

Editor of Focaal Journal e Focal Blog.

Ricerca

2022

• Art and Political Ecology Collaboration with Elizabeth Povinelli, Wenner Gren 

•  Cinema as Assembly. Intersectional, Postcolonial and Indigenous Cinema. (Creative Europe Grant)

Project leader. Participants include Elizabeth Povinelli, Filipa Cesar, MTL collective, Denise Ferreira da Silva, John Roberts, and Ariella Azoulay.

2021

• The end of Labour? An anthropological approach to UBI policies in Brazil. £5,000. Independent Social research Foundation

2017- 2025

• Institute of Radical Imagination $ 500,000 Foundation for the Arts Initiative (FfAI). 

2008-2012

Co-Investigator

Models and their Effects on Development paths: an Ethnographic and comparative Approach to knowledge transmission and livelihood strategies (MEDEA) (FP7 SSH-2007-1)

European Community Framework 7 Collaborative Project (£1.5 Million)

Conferenze e Workshops Organizzate Recentemente. 

2021

• "Cinema as Assembly"  Simposio e Programmazione cinematografica, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia

• Programma di Studi ‘Together” per il COUNCIL, Paris

(Tra I docenti Binna Choi, Dora Garcia, Elizabeth Povinelli, Caroline Woolard e Filipa Cesar)

• Un-Common Ground: Art Ecology and Decolonial Freedom. Mao Mollona in conversazione con T. J. Demos. Institute of Radical Imagination

• Suzanne Lacy: between Anthropology, Art, and Performance.  Discussione nell'ambito del corso Antropologia dell Arte.

2020

Presentazione di Guy Standing. ‘The Plunder of the Commons’ Goldsmiths College, London

Presentazioni Recenti e Future 

2023

• Introduzione della sezione arte contemporanea nella mostra sciamanesimo al Museo di Arte Contemporanea di Trento (MART). 

• Work/Love. In praise of Mladen Stilinović. Conversation/performance with Dora Garcia. Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb.

• What Could/Should Curating Do Kolarak, Belgrade.

•  ART/COMMONS. Art and Politics at the World’s End. Goldsmiths College, London.

•  ART/COMMONS. Frame Contemporary Art, Finland.

•  Impossible Realism. Conversation with James Clifford. BAK

•  Keynote: Art and Commons Museo Jumex, Mexico City.

2022

• Curatela e presentazione della mostra Radical Dreaming all Universita' di Konstanz, Germania. 

• Art as Commons. Anthropology, Political Economy and the Radical Imagination. Talk at theSchool of the Arts at the University de Vincennes in Saint Denis (Paris 8).

• Curatela e presentazione della mostra "Il cinema dell autonomia Zapatista" LUC, Atene.  

• "Ensemble: A Decentralised Autonomous Organization between art and political economic prefiguration" presentazione con l'artista sonoro Samson Young alla conferenza Radical Friends, Haus der Kunst, Monaco.

2021

• Assessing David Graeber’s theory of “bullshit jobs.” Discussione alla London School of Economics, LSE. London.

• Impossible Realism. Archival images, hetero-temporality and the permanent revolution. Conversazione con James Clifford. BAK Global Fellowship.

• ART/COMMONS. Internationalism, Post-capitalism, and the Radical Imagination. FEINART Lecture. Progetto coordinato dal Professore John Roberts (University of Wolverhampton)

• Universal Basic Income (UBI) for Art. Presentazione a CASCO, Utrecht.

• On Indigenous Video and Cinema. Discussione al Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid

• International symposium on Universal Basic Income. Presentazione al Federal Fluminense University, Rio de Janeiro

• Unpayable Debt. Discussione con Denise Ferreira da Silva e Stefano Harney al Vera List Center. NYC.

• Uncanny Ocean. Presentazione, HEAD Geneva

• Anthropology, Ethnography and Performativy Invited Lecture, Roski School of Art and Design. US.

• Working-Class Cinema in the Age of Digital Capitalism The Marxist Project, NYC.

• Ensemble: An Ethereum-Based Platform for decentralized Organizing of Artistic Production. The Goethe Institute.

•  Proposition (13) Mobilization and Invisibility. BAK. Basis voor Actuele Kunst. Utrecht

2020

• Cinema and Capitalism. The Socialist Register, London

• Experiences of Oil. Talk at the Stavanger Art Museum, Norway

• Abolitionism: towards alternative modes of study -  Mao Mollona, Eli Meyerhoff; Max Haiven, Abigail Boggs, Nick Mitchell, Zach Schwartz-Weinste Institute of Radical Imagination - The School of Mutation - Radical Pedagogy

• Popular education and knowledge in commons - with Mao Mollona, Rebecca Tarlau, Lea Ana Blaustein, Zeynep Tul Sualp, Alessandro Mariano Institute of Radical Imagination Online

• Simposio su Estrattivismo in occasione della presentazione dell libro:   Brazilian Steeltown. Machines, Land, Money and Commoning in the Making of the Working Class Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.