More-than-Human Stories. Post-anthropocentric Trajectories in Today’s Art and Curatorial Practices.

COURSE OF CONTEMPORARY ART AT BOCCONI UNIVERSITY ( Academic Year 2024/25)

Department of Social and Political Sciences.

INSTRUCTOR: LORENZO GIUSTI

The course aims to introduce students to the complexity of post-anthropocentric studies-in the philosophical, anthropological and social spheres-through the perspective and interpretation of some of the most significant artistic positions of recent years and through the observation of specific curatorial practices in institutional contexts.

The first part of the course will be devoted to the analysis of key essays -both historical and recent – in the field of post-anthropocentric thought, with particular reference to those authors who have most oriented contemporary artistic research: Peter Singer, Bruno Latour, Donna Haraway, Anna Tsing, Timothy Morton. In parallel a presentation of some of the most significant artistic positions of recent years will be provided, with particular reference to those works in which the non-anthropocentric, multi-speciesist trajectory emerges as a transformative element.

The second part of the course will have a laboratory character and will see students directly engaged in the analysis of specific curatorial practices carried out internationally in different institutional contexts (museums, art biennials, festivals…).