2026 ~ Confluence#4 ~ March 4 - March 16

Where: Matera, South Italy 

Local cultural host: Tower Art Museum (TAM). 

Educational partners: Palestra, IAC Centro Arti Integrate.  

NOTICE FOR 2nd YEARS: Upon DAI commission, Alaa Abu Asad will join for the entire period for the Alumni Embassy portraits and DAI Communique group photo.

Advise from Alaa: Consider dressing attire, make up and stylistic choices of your choosing that best represents you - preferably not thin-stripe garments to avoid moiré effect. 

PROGRAM (under construction)

Wednesday 4:  arrival students

Student accommodation: Casa per Ferie Sant'Anna

Dinner: Palestra.

Thursday 5:  WEAVER

Guided city-walks & film screenings 

Lunch + dinner@Palestra.

Friday 6:

The Kitchen: location, schedule, respondents

Saturday 7:

The Kitchen: location, schedule, respondents

This day ends at the Tower Art Museum, with the festive, Matera launch of 

Like Swarming Maggots: Confronting the Archive of Coloniality across Italy and Libya

Arrival COOP tutors & RA#33 contributors

Sunday 8:

PUBLIC PROGRAM

Roaming Assembly#33: The Script that Passes Through Here ~ a field of unresolved presence

In the presence of all COOP tutorial teams.

Monday 9: COOP

Lunch & Dinner: Palestra

Tuesday 10: COOP

Lunch & Dinner: Palestra

Wednesday 11: COOP

Lunch & Dinner: Palestra

Thursday 12:  WEAVER, general assembly 

Venue: Palestra & spaces at Area8

Arrival theory tutors

Friday 13: HTDTWT

Lunch + dinner@Palestra.

Saturday 14:  HTDTWT

Lunch + dinner@Palestra.

Sunday 15: HTDTWT

Lunch + dinner@Palestra.

Monday 16: Departure all

Tuesday 17: Departure post-production crew.