Nicola Setari (1978, Brussels) is a researcher, a curator and writer. Since 2013 he has been working as responsible of the editorial team of the ‘New Narrative for Europe’. He worked as one of the agents of dOCUMENTA (13) in Kassel and served as dean of the dOCUMENTA (13) Park Schönfeld Academy. Between 2006 and 2009, he was editor in chief and publisher of the art magazine Janus. In 2010 and 2011 he was Project director and co-curator of the Visionary Africa platform for the Centre for Fine Arts in Brussels (BOZAR) and co-editor of GEO-graphics: A Map of Art Practices in Africa, Past and Present (BOZAR Books, Silvana Editoriale, 2010). His fields of research and practice are visual culture and contemporary art with a focus on iconoclasm. He holds a PhD in the History of Architecture and Art Sciences (IUAV University Venice) and is professor of Visual Anthropology at the New Academy for Fine Arts in Milan. Since 2002, he is Secretary General of the Dena Foundation for Contemporary Art in Paris.

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About Extra Academy:

'Extra Academy' is the spontaneous alliance of Extra City Kunsthal Antwerpen and the two art schools of the city, the Royal Academy of Fine Arts and Sint-Lucas Antwerpen. It involves close collaboration with a network of guests and students.

'Extra Academy' is a structural service ‘in progress’, offering different tools and trajectories as a supplement to – or disturbance of – academic models and reflexes. Its open program of lectures, performances, workshops, exhibitions and screenings is designed to trigger alternative questions about modes of knowledge production, of research and practice. It probes gaps and unexpected solutions, teasing out the point where ideas materialise, where they are confronted with their palpable consequences. It believes that theory is not an allegory of practice.

'Extra Academy' listens, looks, asks and wonders. It collects and distributes conversations, it inquires about the educational turn in the arts and about the turn that will dislodge it, while providing time and space for a plasticity of ideas to manifest themselves.

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