INSISTING OTHERWISE: Sepake Angiama, Sajan Mani, Elia Nurvista, Chaveli Sifre, Raul Walch

Insisting Otherwise inaugurates as a porous gathering, a series of acts of talk that tunnel under disciplinary terrain, bridge thresholds, and hum in the loam of shared urgencies.

Initiated by Syracuse University Architecture Florence and Villa Romana, the series asks: How do we learn to live otherwise? To build otherwise? To move collectively across ever-changing terrain? We begin with a call from Sepake Angiama - educator and curator of wayward pedagogies. Her practice hears the undercommons, summoning the whispered knowledges of those who resist enclosure. She invites us to spiral, not climb, to unlearn the institution as monument and reimagine it as garden, as gathering, as ground for mutual becoming.

Within resonance, the current Villa Romana Fellows, namely Sajan Mani, Elia Nurvista, Chaveli Sifre, and Raul Walch, respond through their own embodied practices.

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