Lorenzo Lazzari’s research is implicated in the relationship between the moving image, politics, and architecture. His investigation is about those forms of display capable of generating dissent and questioning normalizing patterns. Since 2018 he has been the program advisor for MOVIES—Moving Images Art, a postgraduate hosted at Iuav University of Venice. In 2019 he won the i-Portunus Creative Europe grant and co-founded the editorial project Adriatico Book Club. He holds a Ph.D. in Art History, Film, and Media Studies. For any questions mail to Lorenzo.
EXHIBITIONS/SCREENINGS
2024
July—August, curator of POP Adriatico screening program
Porto Franco Vecchio, Trieste
April, curator of To Pursue a Here Elsewhere—Two Films by Éric Baudelaire screening program
Teatrino di Palazzo Grassi, Venice
January, curator of Silvi Naçi’sThe Bow Wake [Vala e Harkut] screening
Apoteka, Vodnjan
2023
October, co-curator of On Gesture
Spazio35 / Visionario, Udine
2022
November, curator of Riconfigurazioni: Tre indagini filmiche sul silvano
Ca’ Tron, Venice
October, co-curator of Mind the Gap 6
Spazio35 and Visionario, Udine
April, design advisor for Il video rende felici by Valentina Valentini
Galleria d’Arte Moderna and Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome
February, curator of Lorenzo Mason Studio: Sunsets and Sunrises
MEGA, Milan
2020
December, co-curator of Opposizioni
Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice
November, co-curator of XXVII FilmForum screenings
University of Udine, Gorizia
2018
November, curator of Body Downtown
Spazio Gino Valle, Venice
2017
July, co-curator of Devenirs
Tolentini, Venice
April, participation with the work Species of Rooms in the exhibition Exemplary
Tolentini, Venice
2016
February, participation with the work Forma della crisi: Crisi della forma in the exhibition Rimontaggi Radicali
Spazio Gino Valle, Venice
PUBLICATIONS
2024
“Gnoseologia di un patrimonio: Display e conoscibilità dell’opera del Video-Nou/Servei de Vídeo Comunitari,” in Patrimoines en arts et médias. Transmissions, médiations, redécouvertes, eds. Mariana Camargo et al., (Paris: L'Harmattan), 169—184
ISBN 978-23-364584-4-1
2023
“Il Video-Nou e gli ateneo: Analisi di due esperienze di video comunitario a Barcellona durante la transizione,” in Spagna contemporanea, no. 63, 99–119
ISSN 1121-7480
2021
“Controfigure: Lo specchio-giungla di Juan Downey,” in Sylva: città, nature, avamposti, eds. Sara Marini and Vincenzo Moschetti (Milan: Mimesis), 198–215
ISBN 978-88-575850-5-5
“The Video, the City, and the Spectator: Architecture and Its Bodies in Front of a Video Camera,” Artnodes, no. 27, online
ISSN 1695-5951
2020
with Malvina Borgherini, eds., Opposizioni (Venice: Adriatico Book Club)
ISBN 978-88-945731-0-7
ed., On Responsibility: The Moving Image Questions Spectatorship, trans. Jim Sunderland (Venice: Adriatico Book Club)
ISBN 978-88-984885-5-1
2019
“Block to Block: Black and Hispanic Youth Against New York City,” Trans Magazin, no. 34: 115–119
ISBN 978-38-567639-4-7
2018
ed., Body Downtown: Corpi, feste e spazi nella New York “No Wave” (Venice: Iuav University)
ISBN 978-88-992435-6-2
“Elegy For a Party: The San Samuele Theater by A. Codognato and Other Fictions by G. Bella, or the Invention of Venice as Festival-City,” Cartha 2, no. 2
Published online
“Paradise Garage: il tempo dell’alta marea,” in INTER/rotto–IN/finito, eds. Anna Ghiraldini and Nicolò Zanatta (Venice: Independently publ.), 23–42
ISBN 978-17-927738-5-3
“Storytelling ‘No New York’: Necessity for an Extra-Ordinary City,” MONU, no. 29: 44–47
ISSN 1860-3211
2017
with Gianmarco Causi, Egidio Cutillo, and Elena Gianelloni, eds., Devenirs (Venice: Iuav University)
ISBN 978-88-992434-5-6
2016
with Gianmarco Causi and Elena Gianelloni, “Forma della crisi/Crisi della forma,” in Dall’archivio, eds. Cristina Baggio, Malvina Borgherini, Sara Marini (Venice: Iuav University), 623–625
ISBN 978-88-992431-2-8
RESEARCH
2024
Ca’ Foscari University of Venice
Research fellow for PRIN ARTCHAE: Rediscovering Video and Installation Art as an Archaeology of Telepresence
2022
University of Udine
Ph.D. candidate in Art History, Film and Media Studies
2021
University of Udine
Ph.D. student in Art History, Film and Media Studies
MACBA—Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona
Guest Researchers Program
PRIN Sylva: Rethink the sylvan
Ph.D. contributor in the research group
2020
University of Udine
Ph.D. student in Art History, Film and Media Studies
PRIN Sylva: Rethink the sylvan
Ph.D. contributor in the research group
2019
i-Portunus (grant)
Creative Europe programme headed by the Goethe-Institut with Institut français, Izolyatsia and Nida Art Colony of Vilnius Academy of Arts
2018
Iuav University of Venice
Research fellow at ClusterLAB LSD: Forme del displaying
SEMINARS/TALKS
2024
March 1, artist talk with Guerreiro Do Divino Amor
Iuav University of Venice
February 24, artist talk with Giulia Iacolutti
Iuav University of Venice
2023
November 10, round table with Giada Centazzo, Rachele D'Osualdo, Eva Giolo, Silvi Naçi inside the exhibition On Gesture
Iuav University of Venice
June 23, presentation of “After Work: The Experience of Video-Nou in Can Serra, 1978” at the conference Images at Work: Labour and the Moving Image
King’s College London
2022
November 3, round table with Sofia Caesar, Giada Centazzo, Danilo Correale, and Simone Furlani about “Abitare la contemporaneità” inside the exhibition Mind the Gap 6
University of Udine
March 19, chair with Giuliana Carbi, Carloni-Franceschetti, and Janka Vukmin in Esso: Shadows Oozing Gold
Iuav University of Venice
January 26, round table about the exhibition Mind the Gap 5
Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa—Spazio 35
2021
December 16, presentation of “Reconsidering Early Community Video: Seeking a Conflictual Common Space” at the conference Visible Evidence XXVII: Documentary and Democracy in Crisis
Frankfurt am Main
May 27, presentation of “Gnoséologie du patrimoine vidéo: techniques d’exposition et accessibilité du fonds Col·lectiu Video-Nou / Servei de Vídeo Comunitari” at the seminar Patrimoines en Arts et Médias: transmissions, médiations, redécouvertes
Université Sorbonne Nouvelle—Paris 3
March 22, chair with Vincenzo Estremo in Moving Image-Based Curatorial Practice: A Presentation by Aily Nash
University of Udine (XIX Spring School in Film and Media Studies)
2020
November 13, presentation of “Controfigure: Lo specchio-giungla di Juan Downey” at the seminar Sylva: Città, nature, avamposti
Iuav University of Venice
2018
May 27, invitation to discuss Devenirs in a round table for CSU in Motion
Unfolding Pavilion, Venice
February 23, presentation of “Paradise Garage: Il tempo dell’alta marea” at the seminar INTER/Rotto–IN/Finito
Ca’ Pesaro—International Gallery of Modern Art, Venice
TEACHING
2024
Iuav University of Venice
Contract professor, Video Workshop, BA in Multimedia Arts
Iuav University of Venice
Director, postgraduate MOVIES—Moving Images Arts
2023
Iuav University of Venice
Contract professor, Digital Illustration, BA in Multimedia Arts
2022
Iuav University of Venice
Program advisor, postgraduate MOVIES—Moving Images Arts
EDUCATION
2023
University of Udine
Ph.D. in Art History, Film and Media Studies
2017
Iuav University of Venice
MA in Architecture
2016
Escola Tècnica Superior d’Arquitectura de Barcelona
Erasmus+ student