Academic Qualifications________________________________________________
PhD in Social Anthropology 2003. London School of Economics
MSc in Social Anthropology 1998 London School of Economics
Laurea in Business Economics 1996 with First Class Honours in Organisational Behaviour Università’ Commerciale Luigi Bocconi
Teaching
2003 to 2022
Lecturer and Convenor of the course Political and Economic Anthropology , BA & MA
Goldsmiths, University of London
2005 to 2022
Lecturer and Convenor of the Master’s in Visual Anthropology (MAVIS)
Goldsmiths, University of London
2003 to 2022
Lecturer and convener of the courses Art and Anthropology and Visual Anthropology, BA & MA
Goldsmiths, University of London
FELLOWSHIPS
2022 BAK, UTRECHT Global Fellow & Royal Anthropological Institute.
2021 ROYAL INSTITUTE OF ART, STOCKHOLM & CITTADELLARTE 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)
Main Professional Activities____________________________________________
2020 to Present
IRI - The School of Mutation
2017 to Present
IRI - Institute of Radical Imagination
2017 to Present
LUC- Laboratory of Urban Commons Athens, Greece
2015 - 2016
Programme and Artistic Director of Athens Biennale (AB5-6) Athens, Greece
2015 - 2017
Artistic Director of the Bergen Assembly Bergen, Norway
2014 to Present
Editor of Focaal Journal
Honours and Distintions______________________________________________________
2004
Commendation for the film ‘Steel Lives’
8th Royal Anthropological Institute
International Festival of Ethnographic Films
2003
Alfred Gell Studentship Firth Prize
Best Teacher Prize
Malinowski Award
Royal Anthropological Institute Radcliffe-Brown/Firth Award
Funded Research
Applications in Progress
Art and Political Ecology Collaboration with Elizabeth Povinelli, Wenner Gren
Beyond Capitalism: A Trans-disciplinary Multimedia Archive of Knowledge in Commons
Principal Investigator. ERC- Horizon 2020 (€ 2,498,554)
Cinema as Assembly. Intersectional, Postcolonial and Indigenous Cinema.
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). PI
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)
Recently Organized Conferences, Workshops and Panels
2021
September
Cinema as Assembly, Madrid.
Symposium and Film programme, with Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia
July
Organiser of Afield Study Programme ‘Together” for COUNCIL, Paris
(Faculty included, Binna Choi, Dora Garcia, Elizabeth Povinelli, Caroline Woolard and Filipa Cesar)
June
Un-Common Ground: Art Ecology and Decolonial Freedom. Mao Mollona in conversation with T. J. Demos.
Institute of Radical Imagination
March
Suzanne Lacy: between Anthropology, Art, and Performance.
Talk organised for the Anthropology of Art course, Goldsmiths.
2020
March - December
The School of Mutation (IRI)
Series of workshops on Radical Pedagogy and Militant Cinema
January
Talk by Guy Standing. ‘The Plunder of the Commons’
Goldsmiths College, London
Recent and Forthcoming Talks
2022
January
- Art as Commons. Anthropology, Political Economy and the Radical Imagination. Talk at the School of the Arts at the University de Vincennes in Saint Denis (Paris 8).
- "Ensemble: A Decentralised Autonomous Organization between art and political economic prefiguration" Talk with sound artist Samson Young at the Conference Radical Friends, Haus der Kunst, Munich.
2021
December
- Assessing David Graeber’s theory of “bullshit jobs.” Talk at the London School of Economics, LSE. London.
November
- Impossible Realism. Archival images, hetero-temporality and the permanent revolution. Conversation with James Clifford. BAK Global Fellowship.
September
- ART/COMMONS. Internationalism, Post-capitalism, and the Radical Imagination. FEINART Lecture. Project convened by Professor John Roberts (University of Wolverhampton)
- Universal Basic Income (UBI) for Art. Talk at CASCO, Utrecht.
- On Indigenous Video and Cinema. Talk at Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid
June
- International symposium on Universal Basic Income. Talk at Federal Fluminense University, Rio de Janeiro
May
Unpayable Debt Talk with Denise Ferreira da Silva and Stefano Harney at the Vera List Center. NYC.
March
- Uncanny Ocean. Invited Lecture, 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.
February
- Ensemble: An Ethereum-Based Platform for decentralized Organizing of Artistic Production. The Goethe Institute.
January
- Proposition (13) Mobilization and Invisibility. BAK. Basis voor Actuele Kunst. Utrecht
2020
December
- Cinema and Capitalism. The Socialist Register, London
November
- Experiences of Oil. Talk at the Stavanger Art Museum, Norway
October
- Abolitionism: towards alternative modes of study - Panel Mao Mollona, Eli Meyerhoff; Max Haiven, Abigail Boggs, Nick Mitchell, Zach Schwartz-Weinste Institute of Radical Imagination - The School of Mutation - Radical Pedagogy
July
- Popular education and knowledge in commons - with Mao Mollona, Rebecca Tarlau, Lea Ana Blaustein, Zeynep Tul Sualp, Alessandro Mariano Institute of Radical Imagination Online
- Public symposium on extractivism organized in occasion of the presentation of the book 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.
