After the summer break, join us for a talk with renowned curator and educator Marco Scotini, who will share insights into his long-term project Disobedience Archive. 

Disobedience Archive is a multiphase, mobile, and evolving video archive started by Marco Scotini in 2005, that concentrates on the relationship between artistic practices and political action. Presented twenty two times in different countries, Disobedience Archive transforms each time without ever assuming a final configuration. Whether in the form of a parliament, a school, or a community garden, the project turns the archive, typically static and taxonomic, into a dynamic and generative device. We will be talking about the relationship between artistic practices and political action through Disobedience Archive, a project conceived as an atlas of contemporary resistance practices.

Marco Scotini is the Artistic Director of NABA, Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti (Milan, Rome, London) since 2025, after leading its Visual Arts Department from 2004. He previously served as Artistic Director of FM Centre for Contemporary Art in Milan until 2024 and currently curates at PAV – Parco Arte Vivente in Turin. He also directs several major artist archives, including those of Gianni Colombo, Bert Theis, Laura Grisi, and the Nanni Balestrini Foundation. Scotini has curated exhibitions for leading institutions and biennials worldwide, including the Venice Biennale (Albanian Pavilion, 2015), Prague, Yinchuan (2018), and Anren (2017) Biennales. His long-term project Disobedience Archive has been presented internationally, including at the Istanbul (2022), Venice (2024), and Thessaloniki (2025) biennials.
Recent exhibitions include The Missing Planet (Museo Pecci), The Shadow Cone (Naples), and retrospectives on Nanni Balestrini, Laura Grisi, and Italian feminist archives. The author of Artecrazia, Politics of Memory, and The Unarchivable, he also edits the Geoarchivi series for Meltemi and has curated over 200 exhibitions.

The program is part of the Remember Freedom series.

The program is supported by:
Croatian Audiovisual Centre (HAVC)
Office for Culture and Civil Society of the City of Zagreb
Kultura Nova Foundation