Anna Rispoli
Anna Rispoli works between artistic creation and civic space, developing prototypes for sharing material resources, intelligence and affect. For twenty years her transdisciplinary projects, performances, and urban installations have been created in Europe, the United States, the Middle East and Asia.
In recent years, she has been working on various forms of "recreated documentary" such as Your word in my mouth about intimacy, eroticism and politics, Close Encounters (Nestroy Award nomination) together with teenagers facing the social pressure, or A Certain Value (European network InSitu), confronting the assembly practices of four different communities.
Anna Rispoli works between artistic creation and civic space, developing prototypes for sharing material resources, intelligence and affect. For twenty years her transdisciplinary projects, performances, and urban installations have been created in Europe, the United States, the Middle East and Asia.
In recent years, she has been working on various forms of "recreated documentary" such as Your word in my mouth about intimacy, eroticism and politics, Close Encounters (Nestroy Award nomination) together with teenagers facing the social pressure, or A Certain Value (European network InSitu), confronting the assembly practices of four different communities.
Together with high school student collectives, Attrito - Paesaggio costituente developed an intergenerational school of self-management and brought together the public and different generations of activists around an anti-gentrification public action in a former military zone.
On the occasion of Einkommen. The unconditional speech Rispoli started an ongoing collaboration with Institute of Radical Imagination and Arts4UBI for a series of performance-investigations on basic income, precarity and labor conditions.
Personally involved in redistribution prototypes, Rispoli contributed to the birth of Common Wallet, a group of 10 people practising radical economic solidarity. She also collaborates with Common Income.
Works that have involved public space include Les marches de la Bourse, in which he brought together political activists from the last fifty years in a meta-demonstration to claim the right to demonstrate; Vorrei tanto tornare a casa, a large-scale interactive performance for the inhabitants of an apartment building; and Five attempts to speak with an alien, which aimed to create a governmental sea front blackout.
Rispoli holds a master's degree from the University of Bologna - Disciplines of Arts Music and Performing Arts.
Until 2018 she was part of the documentary makers collective ZimmerFrei. Since 2023, she has been a member of SPIN, a Brussels-based support and research platform for artistic practice.