CP Projects Space, at SVA MA Curatorial Practice, presents a conversation with artist Margherita Moscardini and curator Pippo Ciorra on Instanbul City Hills: On the Natural History of Dispersion and States of Aggregation(2013), Moscardini's multimedia project on the continuing urban transformation of Istanbul. Comprising a large-scale intervention, book, video document, map and body of satellite works, Istanbul City Hills raises several questions regarding the support, curation and preservation of hard-to-classify and/or impermanent artworks. The conversation will be moderated by Jovana Stokic, MA Curatorial Practice deputy chair. 

Margherita Moscardini studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Bologna, and attended the ACVA of the Antonio Ratti Foundation, Como. She has developed projects and exhibited work in such countries as Bulgaria, France, Italy, South Korea and Turkey. She is currently based in New York as a fellow of the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America, Columbia University, and a resident of the International Studio & Curatorial Program.

Pippo Ciorra, senior curator at MAXXI Architecture, Rome, is an architect, critic, curator, professor of design and theory at the School of Architecture of Ascoli Piceno, University of Camerino, and coordinator of the Villard d'Honnecourt international PhD program. He has contributed to numerous Italian publications and radio programs; is a member of the editorial boards of Casabella, Gomorra and Parametro; and has written several books on architecture, museums and urban issues. His architectural projects include the laboratories of the Department of Molecular Biology of the University of Camerino, the addition to the Government Archaeologic Museum of Ascoli Piceno and a number of residential and office buildings in Italy.

Special thanks to the Italian Cultural Institute of New York, Italian Academy of Advanced Studies in America, Columbia University, and theInternational Studio & Curatorial Program, New York.

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