Anna Rispoli Brussels
Anna Rispoli works between artistic creation and civic space, developing prototypes for sharing material resources, intelligence and affect. She has been working on various forms of “reenacted documentary” as in Your word in my mouth about intimacy, eroticism and politics ; Close Encounters (Nestroy Award nomination) together with teenager apprentices, or A Certain Value, confronting the assembly techniques of four different collectives. Conceived together with high school students participating in counter-institutional actions, Attrito - Paesaggio costituente developed an intergenerational school of dissent and brought together different generations of activists around a public action that reopened the debate around gentrification in a former military zone. Reacting to the financialisation and alienation of European and Middle East cities have been created Les marches de la Bourse, Vorrei tanto tornare a casa and Five attempts to speak with an alien. On the occasion of Einkommen. The unconditional speech Rispoli started an ongoing collaboration with Institute of Radical Imagination and Arts4UBI for a series of performances investigating basic income, precarity and labor conditions. Personally involved in redistribution prototypes, she contributed to the creation of Common Wallet, a group of 10 people practising radical economic solidarity. She contributed to Common Income as well. Since 2023, she has been a member of SPIN, an artist-run organisation.