Angelica Calabrese is a writer, researcher, curator, and educator whose interdisciplinary work draws on decolonial knowledge production and commoning practices, environmental humanities, and feminist science and technology studies to facilitate connection between people and landscapes.
She has an MA in Anthropology from The New School for Social Research, where she studied landscape histories in southern Italy and multispecies care. Her undergraduate degree is from Yale University.
Her creative practice opens occasions of encounter with texts, images, materials, and beings to encourage critical reflection on identity and intersubjectivity. As a writer and ethnographer, she has conducted research on olive tree disease in southern Italy, where she investigated the causes, consequences, and afterlives of environmental destruction. Her writing has been published by Robida Magazine, Roads and Kingdoms, and Atlas Obscura.
She has curated events and exhibitions on botanical art, drawing, and walking as intersubjective practices in Lecce (2022) and in the regional parks of of Rauccio (2023) and Otranto Santa Maria di Leuca (2023). She was also part of the curatorial team of the 2025 Annual Gathering in Borgo Ex (Carlentini, Sicily), focused on care, commoning, and decolonial praxis. Her practice also includes critical reflection on pedagogy and community through the management and facilitation of experiential education programming in partnership with communities in West Africa, Southeast Asia, Latin America, and the American West.
As an educator and facilitator, she has collaborated with Decolonizing Art and Architecture Studies in Diso, IT, Where There Be Dragons (Senegal; remote); Laying Groundwork (CO, USA) and other organizations.
She currently thinks about wild plants, botanical drawing, time and memory, family archives, and how practices of multispecies care and attention reshape subjectivities from a home base in Lecce, IT.
Reach her at: angelica.m.calabrese@gmail.com.
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