Join us on April 2 at 7pm for the New York launch of Andrea Bagnato’s narrative essay Terra Infecta: Disease and the Italian Landscape (MACK, 2025). Bagnato will be joined by poet Megan Fernandes and curator Ivan L. Munuera. They will read from their work, and come together in a conversation drawing upon their mutual thinking on vulnerability, health, and ecology.
Based on a decade of research and fieldwork, Terra Infecta is an attempt at writing a political history of the landscape. Touching Naples, Venice, Milan, and Matera, the book critiques the economic dispossession, epistemic erasure, and ecological loss that modernization left in its wake, but also reveals moments of organisation and resistance.