As part of the 13th edition of Lo schermo dell’arte – Cinema and Contemporary Art Festival and of the Resisting the Trouble – Moving Images in Times of Crisis exhibition, the talk Duchamp Is Our Lawyer will be live streamed from Manifattura Tabacchi Facebook page on Wednesday 11 November at 15:00.

Kenneth Goldsmith and Francesco Urbano Ragazzi, authors of The Hillary Clinton Emails exhibition (Venice, 2019), will discuss the storage, consumption and dissemination of works of art on the Internet. The artist and the curatorial duo reflect on ready-made as a theoretical and practical foundation for understanding the life of moving images in the digital age, starting with UbuWeb, a pirate work and archive founded by Goldsmith in 1996, which consists of thousands of online art films and videos. UbuWeb’s story is also told in the recent Duchamp Is My Lawyer, a book the artist recently published with Columbia University Press.

Francesco Urbano Ragazzi is a curatorial duo interested in the narratives of the era of connectivity. In 2015 they curated The Internet Saga, a solo exhibition by filmmaker Jonas Mekas presented at the Venice Biennale of Visual Arts. Urbano Ragazzi has curated exhibitions and residency programs for MMCA – National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (Seoul); International Studio and Curatorial Program (New York); Center d’Art Contemporain (Genève); CRRI – Rivoli Castle (Turin). Francesco Urbano Ragazzi is also director of The Church of Chiara Fumai, the archive that is responsible for preserving the memory and work of the artist Chiara Fumai.