Pescara (1998).
Raised in Italy, based between Cork (IRE) and Amsterdam (NL).
Working on storytelling methodologies and intergenerational knowledge transmission.
My research focus is on sharecropping, decolonial epistemologies and ‘archival imagination’ as a method of practice-based research (Hochberg 2020). In my practice, I experiment with world-making as an imaginative praxis of radical, political, and ontological weight. I like to make functional objects and bring people together using academic research and archival material. I am a trovatrice - teller of stories and finder of things.
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Currently: Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholar at University College Cork (IRE). Chair of the Board at Stichting Kostgewonnen (NL). Editor and Founder at Studio Imaginalis (NL).
Previously:
Cultural History Lecturer in European Studies at the University of Amsterdam (NL). Participant of the Decolonizing Architecture Art Advanced Studies programme at the Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm (SE). Editor at Simulacrum Magazine (NL). Assistant Coordinator of the Artistic Research Research Group (NL).
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Specialised in: developmental editing, writing for the arts, working with neurodiversity, and research assistance.
Often: curating exhibitions, moderating panels, organising with community, and translating (ENG/ITA/FR).
get in touch: marta[a]studioimaginalis.com
Studio Imaginalis - a collaborative imaginal practice.
Studio Imaginalis is the collaborative practice of Richard Weaver and Marta Ida Pagliuca Pelacani.
Working at the intersection between academia, the arts and the cultural sector, Studio Imaginalis helps clients and friends formulate engaging public displays, organize workshops and tell the stories that need to be told.
Making use of a mixed methodology composed of live workshops and digital interaction tools, Studio Imaginalis works within the realm of the ‘imaginal’, a concept used by philosopher Federico Campagna to describe the space in which cultural production work can bring forth change: somewhere beyond the borders of what is already known, somewhere closer than mere fantasy affords.
We prodivde curatorial concepts, installations and research / editing services for a range of clients in the academic and cultural field.
Upcoming projects:
[2023] Cross-pollinating the Archives.
Digital platform.
Awarded the University of Amsterdam Heritage Fund.
Studio Imaginalis is the collaborative practice of Richard Weaver and Marta Ida Pagliuca Pelacani.
Working at the intersection between academia, the arts and the cultural sector, Studio Imaginalis helps clients and friends formulate engaging public displays, organize workshops and tell the stories that need to be told.
Making use of a mixed methodology composed of live workshops and digital interaction tools, Studio Imaginalis works within the realm of the ‘imaginal’, a concept used by philosopher Federico Campagna to describe the space in which cultural production work can bring forth change: somewhere beyond the borders of what is already known, somewhere closer than mere fantasy affords.
We prodivde curatorial concepts, installations and research / editing services for a range of clients in the academic and cultural field.
Upcoming projects:
[2023] Cross-pollinating the Archives.
Digital platform.
Awarded the University of Amsterdam Heritage Fund.