On Friday, 30. August 2024 at 18.30 the Italian multimedia and performance artist, socia activist, researcher, writer and educator Alessandro Rolandi will talk about his time in China and his past and current projects.
Alessandro has been living and working in Beijing from 2002 to 2020. His work focuses on social intervention and relational dynamics to expand the notion of art practice beyond existing structures, spaces and hierarchies, engaging with reality through strategic decentralized autonomous practices. He is the founder and director of the Social Sensibility R&D Department at Bernard Controls Industries in Beijing (2010-ongoing) and Paris/Gonesse (2016-ongoing) and a founding partner of the Social Sensibility Research Institute (SoSense).
Alessandro was born in Pavia on 18th April 1971; he was living and working in Beijing from 2002-2020. Currently he is based in Bern Switzerland. He studied Chemistry in the universities of Pavia and Siena; Theater at Scuola Europea di Danza e Teatro, Carcano, Milano; Experimental Theatre and film-making with Dominique Defazio and Eleonora Marino; Master History of Art & market at Christie’s Education Paris/ Cambridge University; Asian Environmental Humanities: landscapes in transition, Zurich University certificate.
