Felicity Palma: Place and Praxis

As artists and scholars, can we avoid replicating the gaze of the tourist’s camera in our work about classical place? In this talk, artist Felicity Palma discusses how her creative practice negotiates the tension between myth, place, and mobility while making work in Southern Italy today. This event is part of the series Remediating Classical Place, which reexamines the tension between real and ideal places in the classical Mediterranean in light of overtourism, climate crisis, and the commodification of place enabled by social media. In this series, Critical Classical Studies Fellows Lisa Kraege and Felicity Palma reflect on the media that shape our understanding of classical place, both historically and in the present moment. This event is free and open to the public, reception to follow.