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recent activities
Deixar para trรกs. Nothicings on trust and fear
(2025)
Diana Ferro
on being left
behind
free
scattered
together
Artist book as a residency report.
Residency "Play(the)ground. Informality as resistance" in Trafaria - Torrรฃo, Lisbon, PT.
September 2024
Residency organised by Maisunomaisum and experienced by Diana Ferro, artist.
The Institute for Piedilogical Research
(2025)
Diana Ferro
DoPeopleLikeYourFeet?
The first workshop held by the Institute for Piedilogical Research aims to question basic assumptions at the foundations of spatial practice such as how we orient in space, what is the ground we stand on, how we move through space with our feet and so on. As xenofoot research scientists, we propose an intensive training schedule alternating between walking practices in the territory of Calarasi and reflective/ making/transcendental moments on the grounds of EASA community.
As walking is really close to doing nothing (Solnit,2000), it opens up a world of possibilities for the participants that allow encounters with local inhabitants, found materials, conversations, random observations and visions of other dimensions to affect what they will make or write or perform or preach throughout the time of the workshop.
SWEAT - YoNoSudoBrillo
(2025)
Diana Ferro
SWEAT - YoNoSudoBrillo
Two weeks workshop held in Benidorm, Spain, in August 2024. In the context of EASA, European Architecture Students Assembly 2024 event. Tutored by Diana Ferro and Angelo Ciccaglione.
๐ผ๐โ๐ ๐ถ๐๐ ๐ถ๐ท๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ท๐๐ถ๐ธ๐พ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ถ๐๐ถ๐๐พ๐๐. ๐ฟ๐๐'๐ ๐๐๐ท๐ถ๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐ฝ๐พ๐ ๐ฟ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ป ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ฝ๐๐.
In a sauna, people meet strangers and exchange stories while absorbing heat being naked and sweaty. In this workshop we brought the sauna to a step further: we absorbed heat, stories, gestures, words, objects, skills, dreams and sweat them out to other people, re-enacting what we have learned. Also naked, why not.
We learnt how to live, how to breathe, how to make a kebab, how to embody old wisdom, how to tie shoes the proper way. All you need is a fan, a towel and a body. A kebab stick, a drink, some snackies. Participants developed a deeper perspective on what it means to operate within a complex identity such as the city and gained skills to open their own kebab shop.
recent publications
Culture and Identity Matters in the Films of Tomris Giritlioฤlu
(2025)
Tolga Theo Yalur
Turkish Female director Tomris Giritlioฤlu was one of the first in Turkish cinema to touch upon the long-forgotten and pathological consequences of the Turkification efforts in Turkey since forever. In Salkฤฑm Hanฤฑmฤฑn Taneleri / Mrs. Salkฤฑm's Diamonds, she (re)creates the recent and pessimistic past of the one-party Turkey of 1943 Wealth Tax, trying to overthrow the official discourse of the chaotic institutionalization and nationalization times in Turkey. In Gรผz Sancฤฑsฤฑ / Pains of Autumn (2009), she formed a part of the identity carnival of 6-7 September 1955 Events/Pogrom. In these two films, Tomris Giritlioฤlu offers a series of interesting contexts to examine the Turkish governmentโs national stance and the identity formation in two decades from the 1943 Wealth Tax and to the 6-7 September 1955 Events/Pogrom.