Art & Public Policy

Critical Collaboration Project Culminates in Weeklong Gathering in Florence

Monday, Sep 10, 2018

Image collage with 4 photos. Two on top are group photos and bottom left is man in green shirt waving red fan, bottom right has brown papers scattered around a room on the floor with people walking around looking at them

Fellows participated in workshops throughout the week led by other alumni and NYU faculty and staff; Image Credits: Kristin Killacky & Pato Hebert

In early August The Department of Art & Public Policy (APP) partnered with NYU Florence and the Tisch Initiative for Creative Research to host a weeklong gathering at Villa La Pietra in Florence. Artists, activists, curators, scholars, educators, administrators and troublemakers from six continents came together to probe the interplay between creativity, collaboration and social change. The encounter served as the culminating gathering for Critical Collaboration, a three year project supported by NYU's Global Institute for Advanced Study. The project was guided by faculty from NYU campuses in Abu Dhabi, Accra, Buenos Aires, New York and Shanghai, and engaged artists and change makers in these locations along with twenty APP alumni. Stay tuned for project publications which will launch in 2019!

Collage of images: upper left, two women stand at the front of a room in front of projection that says the body I write for; top right two people whisper into a third persons ears from each side; bottom left people lay in the grass at different angles; bottom right people pose spread out in a large grass area

Fellows participated in workshops throughout the week led by other alumni and NYU faculty and staff; Image Credits: Kristin Killacky

Collage: Upper left is two people holding red and yellow fan; upper right is the back of someone as they pick tomatoes from a vine; bottom left is three people spread throughout the garden as they harvest vegetables; bottom left is one person carrying vegetables on a yellow Arts Politics fan shes wearing a scarf and sungflasses

Participants harvested vegetables from the garden at NYU Florence to use in dishes to feed to the group; Image Credits: Kristin Killacky

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