What Remains – Knowledge, Care, and the Transmission in Networked Practices | Workshop by Fabiola Fiocco 14 May 2026, 18 - 21, HANGAR, Lisbon @hangar_cia   What happens to collective knowledge when someone leaves, a project ends, or a network quietly dissolves? This workshop starts from a simple observation: much of what sustains cultural organisations and networks doesn’t live in documents or formal structures, but in the people who shape them. It emerges through relationships, evolving ways of working, and shared histories that are only partly recorded. Building on the project Unfolding Ecosystems, we’ll look at how networks like L’Internationale, Arts Collaboratory, tranzit.org, and Triangle Network function, adapt, and carry knowledge over time. Through a guided mapping exercise and group discussion, participants reflect on their own contexts, tracing how knowledge is embedded in everyday practices and sustained through people, habits, and connections. Rather than describing structures, the session follows how knowledge circulates, where it gathers, and where it breaks—opening space to consider how continuity is maintained and what enables it. Open to cultural workers, activists, volunteers, and students. No prior knowledge of the research is required. Participation is by pre-registration only, capacity 30 people. Participation is free of charge, but places are limited. Please write a short paragraph with your motivation and your biography to [email protected] and [email protected].  The session will be in English. The event ‘What Remains – Knowledge, Care, and the Transmission in Networked Practices’ is part of Fabiola Fiocco’s research project ‘Unfolding Ecosystems: Institutional Practices from a Networked Perspective’ granted by the Italian Council program (14th edition, 2025) and promoted by the Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity of the Italian Ministry of Culture. Artwork: @valeriapgls ✨ #ItalianCouncil #CreativitaContemporanea #MiC #ContemporaryItalianArt

Random snippets from these in-person days with the ENGAGEMENT AND ACTIVISM IN CONTEMPORARY ART class at @haskoli_islands together with @iceland_university_of_the_arts & some wondering around. Thanks to @marteinnsindri and all the students for welcoming me, for the exchanges and for the wonderful projects they created and shared. It’s always inspiring to see how ideas translate into objects, experiences, relationships, and again other concepts in continuous processes of translation and re-proposition. a good place to breathe 😌

tutto ma non quest’atteggiamento acuto, calcolato, non impegnato

The last time I visited the Reina Sofia (ten years ago now) I was doing fieldwork for my master’s thesis in museology, looking at the transposition of the commons within the museum space. It was all new, all in the making, all as unstable as experiments can be. Happy to be back once again this year as part of the Unfolding Ecosystem research project. A trip that came out of institutions to look at the urban micro-cosms and invisible but foundational networks their are embedded in, hybridising and evolving, asking new and old questions. We have not been in the momentum of the 2010s, Indignados, Occupy and New Institutionalism for a long time now, but before the great movements and labels there have always been and remain the daily acts of resistance and creation, the being together, working in the cracks and interstices, our collective knowledge and the ability to look (and imagine) beyond what is given to us. Thank you for the time and hospitality and the work you are doing ~ @albacolomo & @laescoscesa ~ @veronikvalentini & @hangar_org ~ @marinamonsonis & @macba_barcelona ~ @amelie_aranguren and the whole team of @_paisanaje_ ~ @saraburaya & Maria Mallol of the Tentacular Museum @museoreinasofia @redcsur and all the organisations that participated in the Archivos del Común VI. The research project “Unfolding Ecosystems: Institutional Practises from a Networked Perspective” is supported by @creativita_contemporanea of the #MiC as part of the program #ItalianCouncil (2025).

Please join us at MACRO on Thursday 12 March for the next CRIT. All welcome! As part of the UNAROMA Live program at MACRO, CASTRO presents a new CRIT session. A CRIT is a meeting in which two artists present their work, “offering it” to a collective criticism. During CASTRO’s CRITS each artist will have a session of about 45 minutes. The artists presenting during this session are Dakota Guo and Natalya Marconini Falconer, participants in CASTRO’s Studio Program Turn #09. The event will be facilitated by Fabiola Fiocco and held in English.

Since this 2025 I’ve been told (maybe a few too many times) that I need to learn how to celebrate the things I do, I’m ending the year with a post celebrating one of the hardest and most rewarding things I’ve done so far. In June I finally defended my thesis and was awarded my PhD; some very special days surrounded by an unexpected amount of love and support. Of course, everything was documented with very few photos, and mostly terrible ones, but I carry every moment and every hug with me. In an increasingly alienating and violent world that rewards arrogance, individualism and domination, I’m grateful to have had the privilege of spending the past four years being paid to think, ask questions, nurture critical thinking and curiosity, and to meet incredible people who shared their time and knowledge with me. I honestly don’t know where this will take me, or how to survive the endless precarity I’ve chosen for myself (lol). But beyond all professional considerations, gastrointestinal issues, and various moments of despair, it was all very special. Thank you all, for everything ~ Here’s to many more celebrations, hugs, and uncomfortable questions ❤️

With the hope that we will benefit from a partly sunny day on Saturday, 11 October, as currently forecasted, we invite you to our third event, part of the activation series of the Shelter for collective dreaming at Siliștea Snagovului. This time with a full day of workshops, walks, and discussions with dear guests, going into the practicalities of setting up a community, from forms of organising that addresses the complexities of labour, creativity, and collective struggle, and exercising different roles as agents of the community in a laboratory of finding harmony through conflicts, contradictions and joys, to collecting different visions of the place, both of its past, but mainly of a collectively planed future. Shelter prepared by Atelier Ad Hoc @atelier.adhoc.arhitectura , Dan Vezentan @dan_vezentan , Eduard Constantin @edi_constantine , Mihaela Moldovan @_mihaela_moldovan_ Workshop with 𝐅𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐨𝐥𝐚 𝐅𝐢𝐨𝐜𝐜𝐨 (𝐑𝐨𝐦𝐞): 𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐩𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐋𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐫 11:00 - 13:00 𝐋𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐡 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐃𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐚 𝐕𝐨𝐢𝐜𝐮: 13:00 - 14:00 Workshop with 𝐀𝐦𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐞 𝐀𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐧 (𝐌𝐚𝐝𝐫𝐢𝐝): 𝐀𝐫𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐑𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲: 𝐀 𝐋𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐄𝐧𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 14:00 - 16:00 Walks and discussions with 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐞𝐬 𝐄𝐬𝐜𝐡𝐞 (𝐀𝐦𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐝𝐚𝐦): 𝐆𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐲𝐨𝐮 16:00 - 18:00 Full information on the activities proposed for the day can be found on our Facebook event: https://fb.me/e/59iEonU74 𝐑𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 to join the minibus (20 pers), until 10 Oct at [email protected] or DM 𝐃𝐞𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞: 10:00 from Victory Square parking lot 𝐑𝐞𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐧: 19:00 at Victory Square parking lot

Some of the beautiful essay @fbl_fio has written for my work in 'Cloistered' @britishschoolatrome "[T]he installation captures the layered narrative of Rome as a prism of empire, where history's long arc of authority, conquest, renewal and resistance persists in ever-shifting guises. [...] 'argento fra le stelle' collapses the city's countless temporalities into the everyday, questioning what monumentalities still hold sway and what new ones are shaping the contours of our present." (Fabiola Fiocco) Image: 'argento fra le stelle' (detail), 2025, dimensions variable. Tarpaulin, scaffolding, marble, plastic, weeds, snail shells, grow lamps. @samstagscholarships

segni, formule e disposizioni

lucis

falling, in good company (pun intended)

A few images from the recently concluded residency module ‘Unfolding Ecosystems: Institutional Practices from a Networked Perspective’ that I had the pleasure to curate and mentor as part of ‘Ways of Becoming: 25 years’ at UNIDEE @unideeresidencyprograms  @cittadellarte 💫 These were truly precious days, where we engaged in discussions about new and existing institutional practices, the potential to activate knowledge ecologies, and the scalability and sustainability of the processes we are involved in and eager to develop, among many other things. A heartfelt thank you to all the participants for their interest, enthusiasm, active engagement, and deep sense of care and collectivity 💜🫠@cecilialmwee  @rosebrander  @faccinale  @fili_berta  @beansoupe  @marianna_stefanitsi  @kevin.bello.art  @josetomas_mv  @agata.szymanek  @aislingrward  @lelebidd  #evagonzálezsanchobodero A heartfelt thank you to my co-mentor (and amazing friend and colleague) @alesavias ~ to the wonderful UNIDEE team, who can really make magic happen ~ and to @saraburaya for telling us about the wonderful work they are doing with the Tentacular Museum at the Reina Sofía Museum. Who would have thought that so many beautiful bonds and things could branch out from a small city like Eindhoven? ❤️‍🔥