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Spectrites,</span></p>
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style="font-family:"Avenir
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color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">Fancy a travel
to Italy for next week end?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span
style="font-family:"Avenir Book";
color:black">We are delighted to announce the residency of
artist Margherita
Pevere in the frame of our project Roots & Seeds XXI, and
her involvement
with our project's first Dissemination Events. <br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">Annick Bureaud<br>
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color:black"></span><span style="font-family:"Avenir
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<p class="MsoNormal"
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style="font-family:"Avenir
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color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">Resilienze
Festival, Bologna, Italy</span></b></p>
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style="font-family:"Avenir
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color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">With
Margherita Pevere</span></b></p>
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style="font-family:"Avenir
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color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">26<sup>th</sup>
of May, 2022</span></b></p>
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style="text-align:justify;mso-hyphenate:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none;vertical-align:middle"><a
href="https://www.resilienzefestival.it/evento/taming-the-garden/"><b><span
style="font-family:"Avenir
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mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">More information</span></b></a><b><span
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color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="text-align:justify;mso-hyphenate:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none;vertical-align:middle"><b><span
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color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span
style="font-family:"Avenir
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mso-color-alt:windowtext;background:white;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
lang="EN-US">In the
Framework of <b>Festival Resilienze</b>, <b>Tatiana
Kourouchkina (Director of
Quo Artis)</b> and Roots & Seeds’ <b>artist in residency
Marghertia Pevere</b>,
in conversation with Nicoletta Tranquillo di Kilowatt, will
introduce an
immersive screening of the documentary <i>Taming the Garden </i>by
Salomé
Jashi, The event will include a discussion about Pevere’s
research project and
residency in Treviso and the Roots and Seeds XXI project at
large, discussing
biodiversity protection through the intersection of art and
science and the
creation of knowledge and empathy towards the botanical world. </span><span
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<p class="MsoNormal"
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style="font-family:"Avenir
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color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">Residency
with artist Margherita Pevere</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="text-align:justify;mso-hyphenate:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none;vertical-align:middle"><span
style="font-family:"Avenir
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mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">“In times of surging
ecological crisis, how can we
shift our perspective, embrace ethical complexity, and foster
attunement to
botanical entities that inhabit one’s biotope?”</span></p>
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mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="text-align:justify;mso-hyphenate:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none;vertical-align:middle"><span
style="font-family:"Avenir
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mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">During a <b>week-long
residency in a garden in Treviso</b>,
artist Margherita Pevere will collaborate with various <b>Roots
& Seeds XXI
partners</b> and guests working in the fields of art, botany
and
transdisciplinary research through walks, daily rituals, and
conversations. Her
research will focus on the <b>local flora</b> as a point of
departure to
reflect on biodiversity, environmental death and anthropogenic
ecological
changes. </span></p>
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none;text-autospace:none;vertical-align:middle"><span
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mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="text-align:justify;mso-hyphenate:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
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style="font-family:"Avenir
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mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">The residency is part of
the artist’s wider research
project, <b><i>Unframing Death, </i></b>an investigation into
<i>death</i> from
<b>more-than-human</b> and <b>queer</b> perspectives and an
invitation to <b>reflect
on the process of dying as a creative one</b>, responding to
the urgency of art
in times of environmental disruption and the ecological effects
of human
action.</span></p>
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mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="text-align:justify;mso-hyphenate:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
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style="font-family:"Avenir
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mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">The residency will
culminate in two Dissemination
Events within <b>Roots & Seeds XXI</b>, taking place in
Bologna in the
framework of the Festival Resilienze and a Garden Cartography in
Treviso (event
already sold out).</span></p>
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none;text-autospace:none;vertical-align:middle"><span
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span
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mso-color-alt:windowtext;background:white;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
lang="EN-US">Margherita
Pevere</span></b><span style="font-family:"Avenir
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"Segoe
UI";color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext;background:white;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
lang="EN-US"> is an internationally acknowledged artist and
researcher whose practice
glides across biological arts and performance with a distinctive
visceral
signature. Her transdisciplinary inquiry hybridizes biolab
practice,
biotechnology, ecology, environmental politics, gender and death
studies, with
a healthy dose of hacking attitude to create arresting
installations and
performances that hunt today’s surging ecological complexity.</span><span
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lang="EN-US">margheritapevere.com</span></b><b><span
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background:white;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US"></span></b></p>
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lang="EN-US">frontevacuo.com</span></b><b><span
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background:white;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US"></span></b></p>
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style="font-family:"Avenir
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mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">Roots & Seeds XXI.
Biodiversity Crisis and Plant
Resistance</span></b><span style="font-family:"Avenir
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mso-bidi-font-family:Poppins;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"
lang="EN-GB"> is an
international project fostering behavioural commitment, care and
action towards
the <b>preservation of plant biodiversity </b>and promoting
sustainable
practices through Art & Science collaborations. The
project’s <b>Dissemination
Events</b> aim at generating passion and emotional connection,
promoting habits
that take care of our environment and its plants, while
enriching our botanical
literacy and giving attention to vegetal resilience.</span></p>
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class="d2edcug0"><span style="font-family:"Avenir
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Seeds XXI. Biodiversity Crisis and Plant Resistance is
co-funded by the </span></span><span class="d2edcug0"><span
style="font-family:"Avenir Book"">Creative Europe
Programme of the European </span></span><span
class="d2edcug0"><span style="font-family:"Avenir
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