Attrito is a popular call addressed to students, oldɜ and new activists, passers-by and the public to cross together different spatial-temporal dimensions of urban dissent, questioning the polarisation between institution and indiscipline.
It stems from Scuola Aperta, an autonomous intergenerational school that for six months has involved several secondary schools' collectives questioning the school and its relationship with authority, society and politics. It organised two workshops in high schools, an internship at the Academy of Fine Arts, various university students, participants from civil society - including the No Speculation, the Regeneration Committee of Prati di Caprara - and the valuable contribution of many activists from Bologna.
Attrito is also an itinerant experience, made up of human and non-human bodies, it is a performative assembly, a physical and sound immersion in the urban wilderness. In a confrontation that is both competitive and collaborative, experimental and intimate, the young protagonists of the school occupations invite the prefigurative exercise of a possible alliance between generations. What rebellious knowledge do we need in the collapse that awaits us?
In the partial and affective archive of city occupations collected by the participants, the narratives of protagonists and witnesses of housing occupations, school occupations or claims, and of the undomesticated spaces of the city are interwoven. Which narratives we preserve, which ones we silence.
