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27                     29 Nov 2018

Exhibition

Black Archive Alliance
Villa Romana in the context of Cantiere Toscana
with the support of the Regione Toscana - Toscanaincontemporanea2018
in collaboration with BHMF

 3-Kanal-Video/Audio, 113 min

 3-Kanal-Video/Audio, 113 min

Le Murate Progetti Arte Contemporanea/MUS.E

 3-Kanal-Video/Audio, 113 min

Kunsthistorisches Institut Florenz, Fototeca

 3-Kanal-Video/Audio, 113 min

Le Murate Progetti Arte Contemporanea/MUS.E

 3-Kanal-Video/Audio, 113 min

Agenzia Italiana per la Cooperazione allo Sviluppo

 3-Kanal-Video/Audio, 113 min

Centro degli Studi La Pira

 3-Kanal-Video/Audio, 113 min

Archivio Storico Fratelli Alinari

 3-Kanal-Video/Audio, 113 min

British Institute of Florence/Harold Acton Library

 3-Kanal-Video/Audio, 113 min

Fondazione Ospedale Santa Maria Nuova

photos: Davood Madadpoor


Villa Romana, as part of the Cantiere Toscana project, supported by the Region of Tuscany - Toscanaincontemporanea2018 and in collaboration with BHMF, is organizing a series of mini-exhibitions, tours and presentations based on private and public archives, collections and libraries throughout Florence with holdings that reflect the realities and histories of African and African Diasporic people and their representation. This series of shows from 27 - 29 November creates a virtual map of this archival presence in the city. A resulting catalogue intends to assist future research while providing insight to people who visit the range of spaces dislocated throughout Florence and beyond with which we are in collaboration.

Drawing upon the form of an archive folder the pubic is invited to visit each site in the list to collect the pages of the catalogue and complete the document in an informative, participatory game.

Objectives
Present archival materials in sites throughout the city broadening the access to the findings
Highlight histories that have frequently been omitted from local memory
Provide the foundational spark for future research in this field
Remedy the state of amnesia that isolates African and African Diasporic presence in the city and country as an exclusively contemporary phenomenon
Highlight the research and researchers who have already been doing this work
Produce texts and photographic exhibition materials that can later be re-installed as educational resources

Sites /Sources /Projects
Biblioteca Marucelliana, Via Camillo Cavour, 43, 50129 Florence (8.30 am - 6.30 pm)
Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Piazza San Lorenzo 9, 50123 Florence (9.30 am -1.30 pm)
Agenzia Italiana per la Cooperazione allo Sviluppo, Largo Louis Braille, 4 - 50131 Florence
(9 am - 1 pm)
British Institute of Florence/ Harold Acton Library, Lungarno Guicciardini 9, 50125 Florence
(10 am - 6 pm)
Mediateca Toscana, Via San Gallo 25, 50129 Florence (10 am - 1 pm /2 - 7 pm)
Centro Studi La Pira, Via dei Pescioni 3, 50123 Florence (9  am - 7 pm)
Fondazione Santa Maria Nuova, Piazza Santa Maria Nuova 1, 50122 Florence
(10 am - 1 pm / 3 - 7 pm)
Le Murate Progetti Arte Contemporanea/ MUS.E, Via dell’Agnolo, 50122 Florence (9 am - 7 pm)
SACI/ Worthington Library, Palazzo dei Cartelloni, Via Sant Antonio 11, 50123 Florence
(9 am - 9 pm)
Syracuse University Florence/ Syracuse Florence Library, Piazza Fra’ Girolamo Savonarola 15, 50132 Florence (9 am - 1.30 pm /3 - 8 pm)


List of dates


27 November

2.30 - 3.30 pm
Villa La Pietra Firenze
Tour of the collection of Villa La Pietra with particular attention to the scholarship and initiatives conducted by the institution to contextualize and re-signify the works. The visit is led by Francesca Baldry Collection Manager of the Acton Collection.
Reservation is mandatory with limited spots. Please write to: info@blackhistorymonthflorence.com

5.30 pm
Le Murate Progetti Arte Contemporanea (Emeroteca)
Presentation of the project dedicated to Colonial Postcards from Italian editors and Stamps from the Poste Italiane with the research of the Students of Angelica Pesarini’s Black Italia class at New York University Florence together with the presentation of an artistic project dedicated to Colonial Botanical Gardens by Michele Dantini.

6 pm
Le Murate Progetti Arte Contemporanea
Preparing a Recovery Plan_Artist Screening of artists working with the archive as form and context with videos by Lerato Shadi, Kevin Jerome Everson and Alessandra Ferrini (with presence of artists).


28 November

3 - 4 pm
Kunsthistorisches Institut Florenz
Visit and presentation at Kunsthistorisches Institut Florenz with particular attention to the work the institute has done around de-colonizing the archive and a focus on images in the fototeca of representations of the four continents in mural decoration with student Caroline Coxe of Syracuse University Florence.
Reservation is mandatory with limited spots. Please write to:
office@villaromana.org

7 pm
Villa Romana
Opening of the exhibition dedicated to African Photographers from the Palli Collection.
Opening of exhibition Black Jazz in Tuscany by photographer Enrico Romero from his personal archive.
Opening of an exhibition dedicated to the personal archive of Leonard Bundu with photographs by David Weiss capturing moments of his career and a series documenting the objects of his career by Leonardo Morfini.


29 November

12.30 am - 1.30 pm
Gli Uffizi
Tour of the Uffizi  with a focus on African presence, in particular the portraits of African royalty in the hall of portraits with scholar Ingrid Greenfield, Post-Doctoral Fellow and Assistant to the Director for Academic Programs at Villa i Tatti.
Reservation is mandatory with limited spots. Please write to:
info@blackhistorymonthflorence.com

2 - 3 pm
Fondazione Ospedale Santa Maria Nuova
Presentation of the project dedicated to abolitionist Sarah Parker Redmond in Florence with the presence of Sirpa Salenius, writer of An Abolitionist Abroad: Sarah Parker Remond in Cosmopolitan Europe, 2017.

4 - 5 pm
Archivio Storico Fratelli Alinari
Tour of the Archivio Storico Fratelli Alinari  with details on a collection of images portraying African and African diasporic soldiers during the Second World War based on research by Tatjana Lightburn MFA Candidate at SACI
Reservation is mandatory with limited spots. Please write to: office@villaromana.org

6 pm
Centro degli Studi La Pira
Presentation of the exhibition dedicated to the friendship between Giorgio La Pira and Leopold Senghor and Senghor’s speeches in Italy.
Closing conversation on the Black Archive Alliance-project, with the participation of Papa Demba.


The other spaces are visitable in their opening hours.
We invite the public to pass by the sites to see the shows and collect the pages of the catalogue dedicated to each individual archive free of charge.


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