Andrea Bagnato & Edwin Nasr: ‘Terra Infecta’ [Launch & talk]

Join us for a special conversation between Andrea Bagnato and curator Edwin Nasr to celebrate the Berlin launch of Terra Infecta: Disease and the Italian Landscape.

In the book, Andrea Bagnato traces a political ecology of the Italian landscape. He uses the lens of health and illness to explore how the modern quest for sanitation shaped Italy's urban and rural landscapes through architecture, demolition, and displacement.

Conversation starts at 19:00. Free to attend. 

Thursday 16 April
18:00-21:00 

Bildband Berlin 
Immanuelkirchstraße 33
10405 Berlin
Germany

More about Terra Infecta: Disease and the Italian Landscape

In Terra Infecta, Andrea Bagnato tells an unfamiliar story about a well-known place. Since the early days of tourism, the cities and landscapes of Italy have been bywords for beauty and grandeur. But, at home and abroad, the same places have also been haunted by associations with disease and uncleanliness, often more to do with politics than conditions on the ground.

In this gripping narrative study, Bagnato shows how the modern quest for sanitation shaped Italy’s urban and rural landscapes, propelling major transformations from the draining of the wetlands around Venice, to demolitions and replanning in Naples, to the expulsion of the inhabitants of ancient Matera. He argues that current north–south inequalities are founded on spurious medical narratives, and focuses on the real impact on the people caught in their ministrations.

Can't make it? Order a copy here.