Pescara (1998). Raised in Italy, based in Cork, always in Amsterdam.
Working on storytelling methodologies, intergenerational knowledge transmission, ‘archival imagination’, and peasant heritages.
Aims to make functional things, for and with real people, out of academic research and archives. 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).
Member of the board at Kostgewonnen collective. Founder of Studio Imaginalis.
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: writing for the arts and with neurodiversity, research assistance & developmental editing.
Also: organising, curating, translating, moderating, and producing gigs.
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.