Fulvia Carnevale from Claire Fontaine and Ilaria Bussoni will discuss the experience of ‹Sensible Commons› an event that took place during the month of January in the National Gallery of Modern Art in Rome, which included performances, poetry readings, lectures, experiments, presentations of archives and screenings at the side of a permanent exhibition installed in one of the museum wings.
The event aimed to create a synesthetic space where all the forms of expression were given the same value on a plan of consistency of political equality. The project was organized within the context of the celebration of the anniversary of 1917 Russian revolution and of 1977 Italian movement. 

Ilaria Bussoni 
Ilaria Bussoni, after studying philosophy in Paris under the direction of Jacques Rancière, founded the Italian publishing house Derive Approdi, that she directs since 1998. Member of the board of the new series of the magazine Alfabeta , in 2016 she has been at the origin of the collective projet «OperaViva. Un’arte del possibile»,(Living artwork, an art of the possible) magazine of aesthetics and politics. Amongst the publications of articles and essays she had directed the book  Il gesto femminista. La rivolta delle donne : nel corpo, nell’arte, nel lavoro, (The feminist gesture. Women’s revolt within the body, the arts, at work) published in 2014. She write for the daily newspaper  «il manifesto»and she has co-curated  with Cesare Pietroiusti and Nicolas Martino the exhibition Sensibile Comune. Le opere vive (Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea – Rome – 14-22 January 2017). 

Fulvia Carnevale, Claire Fontaine’s assistant 
Claire Fontaine is a collective artist based in Paris and founded in 2004. After lifting her name from a popular brand of book notes, Claire Fontaine has self-declared herself a ready-made artist’ and she had begun to elaborate a version of neo-conceptual art that often looks like other artist’s work. She works with neon, video, sculpture, painting and text, her practice can be described as an ongoing interrogation of political impotency and the crisis of singularity that seem to define contemporary society at the present time. A monograph about her has been published by Koenigs Books entitled Foreigners Everywhere featuring texts by Bernard Blistène, Nicolas Liucci-Goutnikov, John Kelsey, Hal Foster (2011). She has published with Mute an anthology of her texts entitled Human strike has already begun and other essays (2012), with One Star Press Some instructions for the sharing of private property (2011)and with Dilecta Vivre, vaincre (2009).