(About)
Marta Pagliuca Pelacani
Marta Pagliuca Pelacani is a storyteller, researcher and editor from Pescara (Abruzzo, IT) based in Amsterdam, NL.
Her research investigates issues surrounding memory and illiteracy, looking at the ways in which intergenerational memory is transmitted within communities that lack written records and at times oral histories.
Observing how separation and alienation affected her family’s memory of sharecropping history, she experiments with ways to restablish ancient connections by playing with stories and myth.
Working closely with concepts such as ‘archival fiction’ and ‘archival imagination’, her artistic research uses storytelling to critically rework opaqueness into archives while weaving textures of transparency in the present to convey memories and help sharecropping’s heritage survive.
A first generation descendant of Southern Italian sharecroppers, she is always eager to meet folks with similar histories. Please get in touch.
Observing how separation and alienation affected her family’s memory of sharecropping history, she experiments with ways to restablish ancient connections by playing with stories and myth.
Working closely with concepts such as ‘archival fiction’ and ‘archival imagination’, her artistic research uses storytelling to critically rework opaqueness into archives while weaving textures of transparency in the present to convey memories and help sharecropping’s heritage survive.
A first generation descendant of Southern Italian sharecroppers, she is always eager to meet folks with similar histories. Please get in touch.