UNA SCUOLA AL CASTELLO DI RIVOLI
30.09.2025 - 09.10.2025 from 8:00 to 17:00
UNA SCUOLA AL CASTELLO DI RIVOLI is a place for postgraduate art education based at the Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea and in the Piedmont area. Accompanied by a rotating ENSEMBLE of Turin-based educators, a group of 12 recently-graduated PRACTITIONERS work to collectively and critically dismantle their disciplines and delay production in a spirit of open dialogue.
Each year UNA SCUOLA calls for 12 new PRACTITIONERS and incorporates previous year’s PRACTITIONERS into THE ENSEMBLE. UNA SCUOLA AL CASTELLO DI RIVOLI’s second iteration ‘Starting Point for Critical Elaboration: Stretching till NOCTURN*’ will take place between 30 September – 3 October 2025 at Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea and 6 – 9 October 2025 in the city and hills of Turin, culminating in a public programme, NOCTURN, at the Casa Gramsci.
*Or, ‘[t]he crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.’ (Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1971.)
GLOSSARY
UNA SCUOLA AL CASTELLO DI RIVOLI is a place for postgraduate art education. Each year 12 PRACTITIONERS build a mutually supportive dialogue at Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli-Turin, and in the Piedmont area, supported with material presented by THE ENSEMBLE. UNA SCUOLA AL CASTELLO DI RIVOLI is developed in the context of CRRI, the Research Center of Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea
PRACTITIONERS are 12 recent graduates from Italian institutions enrolled in UNA SCUOLA AL CASTELLO DI RIVOLI annually.
THE ENSEMBLE is a community of Turin-based artists, scientists, curators, writers, performers, philosophers, poets, and economists who share material (workshops, lectures, seminars, screenings, technical classes, walks, exercises, food) with PRACTITIONERS.
Each year there is an INCORPORATION of previous year’s PRACTITIONERS into THE ENSEMBLE, supported by FACILITATORS.
FACILITATORS run UNA SCUOLA AL CASTELLO DI RIVOLI through RADICAL PEDAGOGY.
RADICAL PEDAGOGY comprises material (from yesterday and for tomorrow) on educating ourselves and one another with an emergent curricular typeset and disseminated by THE MEDIUM.
THE MEDIUM shapes graphic identity and disseminates material at the intersection between art and design at dusk, and before or after NOCTURN.
NOCTURN is a public night programme of lectures, discussions and performances on the new world as it struggles to be born in the time of monsters, at Casa Gramsci, Turin.
UNA SCUOLA AL CASTELLO DI RIVOLI was established in 2024 by FACILITATORS – artist Cally Spooner and curator Lilou Vidal.
UNA SCUOLA, quale parte del CRRI – Centro di Ricerca del Castello di Rivoli, è sostenuta da Fondazione Compagnia di San Paolo.
UNA SCUOLA, as part of the CRRI, is supported
by Fondazione Compagnia di San Paolo
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