Over the course of this summer, artist Dayanita Singh and writer Federica Bueti have been in dialogue –across geographies and time zones – around some of the main concerns and questions of their respective practices, letting ‘chance’ lead the way in a deeply rich and moving exchange. As a way of channeling this encounter and paying homage to Singh’s pioneering, genre-bending image-making practice, writer Federica Bueti will relay part of this exchange in a performative reading that touches upon refusal, value, identity, language, critical writing, the architecture of encounters, dissemination and art-making as a disruptive gesture.

Biographical note
Federica Bueti is a writer, researcher and the author of Critical Poetics of Feminist Refusals: Voicing Dissent Across Differences (Routledge, 2022). She regularly writes about contemporary art for magazines and critical anthologies, and loves editing books – among the volumes she has edited are Whose Land Have I Lit On Now? Contemplations on the notions of hostipitality, (SAVVYbooks/Archive Books, 2020) and The Incantation of the Disquieting Muse: On Divinity, Supra-Realities, or the Exorcisement of Witchery (The Greenbox and SAVVY Contemporary, 2017). Her interests focuses on storytelling, feminist practices of refusal, the histories of anti-colonial resistance, the economies of writing and reading and the histories and representation of the Mediterranean Sea. She is writing tutor of the MA in Fine Arts at Piet Zwart Institute. Born in Scilla, Reggio Calabria, Italy, she spend most of her time between Berlin and Scilla.