TERRA INFECTA by Andrea Bagnato with Danae Io and Joyce Joumaa

with Andrea Bagnato, Danae Io and Joyce Joumaa in conversation at 6.30pm

Based on a decade of research and fieldwork, Terra Infecta is an attempt at writing a political history of the landscape through the lens of sanitation, illness and hygiene. The book takes Italy as a case study, and reveals neglected histories of dispossession and resistance in such well-known destinations as Naples, Venice, Milan, and Matera.

The conversation will draw from the book as well as Io and Joyce’s recent artistic work, and will touch on the themes of national identity, collective narratives, and geographies of belonging.

Andrea Bagnato is an architect and writer. He has taught at Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam and the Decolonizing Architecture program at KKH Stockholm. Previous books include the collective volumes Rights of Future Generations (Hatje Cantz, 2022) and A Moving Border: Alpine Cartographies of Climate Change (Columbia, 2019).

Danae Io is an artist based in Athens and Rotterdam. Working in moving image, sculpture and text, she attends to processes and materials that mediate social relations. She holds a Master’s in Fine Arts from the Sandberg Institute, and is a co-founder of the research project System of Systems .

Joyce Joumaa is a Lebanese Canadian visual artist and writer based between Beirut, Montreal and Amsterdam. Her work focuses on microhistories within Lebanon, as a way to understand how past structures inform the present moment. Joumaa is a 2024-26 participant in the De Ateliers program in Amsterdam.