Institute of Radical Imagination

07/04/2026

𝗧𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗣𝗮𝗱𝗶: 𝗣𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲’𝘀 𝗟𝗶𝗯𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻
𝗖𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗕𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟯-𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲
  𝗘𝘅𝗵𝗶𝗯𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻
 📍𝗦𝗮𝗹𝗲 𝗗𝗼𝗰𝗸𝘀, 𝗩𝗲𝗻𝗲𝘇𝗶𝗮
 🗓 𝗠𝗮𝘆 𝟯  —𝟯𝟭 𝗝𝘂𝗹𝘆 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 𝗶𝗻 𝗩𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗰𝗲.
𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴: 𝗦𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝗠𝗮𝘆 𝟯, 𝟳:𝟬𝟬 - 𝟵:𝟬𝟬 𝗽𝗺.
𝗥𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱 𝗧𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲: 𝗧𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗣𝗮𝗱𝗶 𝗶𝗻 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗥𝗮𝗻𝗮 𝗔𝗻𝗮𝗻𝗶, 𝗠𝗮𝗻𝗼𝗹𝗼 𝗕𝗼𝗿𝗷𝗮-𝗩𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗹, 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗹𝗲𝘀 𝗘𝘀𝗰𝗵𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗠𝗼𝘀𝗮𝗮𝗯 𝗔𝗯𝘂𝘀𝗮𝗹 𝗵𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝘆 𝗦𝗮𝗹𝗲 𝗗𝗼𝗰𝗸𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗜𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗶𝘁𝘂𝘁𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗥𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗜𝗺𝗮𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻: 𝗠𝗮𝘆 𝟳, 𝟭𝟴.𝟬𝟬 𝗽𝗺.
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People’s Liberation is an exhibition of a series of large scale banners  that were created for political education, propaganda, and mobilisation from 2022 until now. Apart from woodcut posters and cardboard puppets, banner is one of three mediums and artistic practices that Indonesian collective of art workers Taring Padi has been utilising as a political tool  since 1998.
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Between 2023 and 2026, Taring Padi developed a new series of People’s Justice banners, produced largely through collaboration with progressive organisations, collectives and individuals across four continents. This exhibition shows together the recent works of Gaza artist Mosaab Abusal on the current emergency for Palestinian people in the strip.
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People’s Liberation banner (People’s Justice series no. 9) carries the slogan “Abolish Fascism, Organize Autonomy.” The slogan emerged from collaboration between the Institute of Radical Imagination and Sale Docks.
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The People’s Liberation exhibition is produced by Sale Docks, the Institute of Radical Imagination, and Collective of Art Workers Taring Padi, with the solidarity supports and collaborations from Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra, Casa do Povo, Tricontinental Institute, Framer Framed, Jaringan Masyarakat Peduli Pegunungan Kendeng, The Kitchen, Globe Aroma, Subversive Film, The Question of Funding, Learning Palestine, The Art Gallery of Western Australia, Cantadora, ProppaNOW, Milani Gallery, Manifesto Press.
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📸 Taring Padi Banners

14/11/2024

08/05/2024

!!!!!!Opening Soon!!!!!!!

GATHERING INTO THE MAELSTROM (the exhibition)

Curated by: Institute of Radical Imagination and Sale Docks

May 16 – July 21, 2024

Opening Hours: Thursday to Sunday, 2 to 6 pm.

Closed: May 25

The exhibition presents works largely produced during a three-day workshop at Sale Docks led by Taring Padi, Powernotte, and the Climate Justice League. The result was a series of cardboard puppets and a 15-meter long wooden fish that will be used in a water demonstration (planned on May 25) against the presence of big cruise ships in the Venice lagoon. These objects reject, in practice, any rigid definition, blurring the distinction between artworks and activist props. The exhibition itself reclaims an uncertain status, more the documentation of an action than a display of discrete objects to be contemplated.

Alongside the props made for the No Cruise Ships action in the Lagoon and for a climate justice march in Milan, the exhibition features two films by Oliver Ressler (one documenting the 2019 Venice Climate Camp, the other reflecting on the occupation of the Hambach forest), and a series of banners, paintings, and prints by Taring Padi.

"Gathering Into The Maelstrom" is also the title of a four-day program that took place at Sale Docks (April 17-20, 2024). The program featured assemblies, screenings, and book launches mainly focused on art and ecology. It also included talks with Palestinian artists and participation in an action in solidarity with Palestinian people during the Israeli attack on Gaza.

Artists
Taring Padi, Oliver Ressler, Powernotte, Climate Justice League

01/05/2024

🔴 What role can art and theory play in the struggle against climate breakdown? In ❛Art and Materialisms: At the intersection of New Materialisms and Operaismo❜ Emanuele Braga – artist, philosopher, activist, and co-founder of Institute of Radical Imagination – lays out one of the central theoretical-political claims at the heart of the 𝘼𝙧𝙩 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙍𝙖𝙙𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙡 𝙀𝙘𝙤𝙡𝙤𝙜𝙞𝙚𝙨 𝙈𝙖𝙣𝙞𝙛𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙤.

📖​ Read via link in comments and see you at the marches!

MSU Zagreb
Museo Reina Sofía
MACBA Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona
M HKA
Muzeum Sztuki Nowoczesnej w Warszawie / Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw
Salt Online
Van Abbemuseum
HDK-Valand
National College of Art & Design, Dublin
tranzit.ro
ZRC SAZU
Kyiv Biennial
IMMA - Irish Museum of Modern Art
Moderna galerija
WIELS

22/04/2024

📍 Join us at Sale Docks in Venice at 1pm today for a collective reading of ❛Everything will stay the same if we don’t speak up❜.

The text will be read by L’Internationale colleagues, including: Zdenka Badovinac, María Berríos, Manuel Borja-Villel, Charles Esche, Magda Lipska, Joanna Mytkowska, Bojana Piškur, Maddalena Fragnito, Sabel Gavaldon, Mick Wilson, Nick Aikens, Gülce Özkara, Cathryn Klasto, Jakub Depczyński, Massimiliano Nicola Mollona, Gabriell Riccio, Eylül Şenses, Raluca Voinea, Jesús Carrillo, and Marco Baravalle.

MSU Zagreb
Museo Reina Sofía
MACBA Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona
M HKA
Muzeum Sztuki Nowoczesnej w Warszawie / Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw
Salt Online
Van Abbemuseum
HDK-Valand
National College of Art & Design, Dublin
Institute of Radical Imagination
tranzit.ro
ZRC SAZU
Kyiv Biennial
IMMA - Irish Museum of Modern Art
Moderna galerija
WIELS

La Biennale di Venezia

22/04/2024

Posted • Visto il meteo avverso degli ultimi giorni, il vento fortissimo e l’incertezza delle previsioni del tempo per sabato, il Comitato No Grandi Navi ha deciso di rimandare l’uscita in Laguna, prevista per il 20 aprile. Presto comunicheremo una nuova data, ma abbiamo l’obbligo di dare priorità all’incolumità di tutti gli attivisti e di tutte le persone che animano le nostre manifestazioni. Del resto, il meteo estremo di questi giorni consiglia prudenza nella navigazione in Laguna, esattamente il contrario del piano prospettato dalle compagnie e dal fronte del porto, tutto votato all’aumento di traffico, all’ingresso di nuovi mastodonti del mare e a nuovi scavi.
Che ci tocchi rimandare l’uscita non significa che dobbiamo rinunciare ad una giornata assieme all’insegna della nostra lotta.
Anzi, la proposta del Comitato no Grandi Navi è di trovarci tutti assieme a Sale Docks, ai Magazzini del Sale, dalle 16 alle 20 di sabato per un momento di festa e convivialità. Qui, infatti, negli ultimi giorni, un gruppo internazionale di artisti ha “lavorato per noi”. Il progetto veneziano ha costruito un grande pesce multicolore che guiderà il corteo di barche. Oltre alla Bisigola gigante, il collettivo indonesiano ha fabbricato e dipinto (insieme ad un gruppo di attivisti nostrani) una serie di cartonati dedicata alla nostra lotta.
Vi aspettiamo dunque al Sale per un pomeriggio di arte, animazione bimbi, musica e convivialità.
Parafrasando Emma Goldman, “se non posso ballare, non è la mia rivoluzione”. Vi aspettiamo!!!

18/04/2024

Yesterday we joined ANGA pro-Palestine action asking shut down of Israeli Pavilion at the Venice Biennale

Demonstrations took place outside of the shuttered Israel Pavilion in the Giardini and elsewhere in Venice.