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.
