Presentation of the project “Serpica Naro” by the activist group Chainworkers of Milan
In Milan, the density of fashion stores is exceeded only by its number of “Fashion victims”. Every year the clamour for new Haute Couture collections reaches its peak in the spring, despite the fact that the vast majority of people cannot possibly afford them. A group of fashion workers and activists decided to react against the fashion industry, using the sector’s own strategies. In 2004 they launched what was to be the revelation of the year within the official programme of the Milan fashion week: a “counter-parade” by an invented Japanese designer named Serpica Naro, a new design star. Fake press releases and an intense communications effort have succeeded in attracting a selected audience from the fashion shows, the press and even the police. http://serpicanaro.org/

Screening of the film “Antonio Negri – an eternal revolt” (Germany, 2004) by Andreas Pichler
Documentary film by Andreas Pichler and Alexandra Weltz, co-produced by Gebrueder Beetz Filmproduction and ZDF / Arte, SVT (Sweden) and YLE (Finland). After its first projection in Rome, the film will have its second Italian projection of the Italian translated version.
Few European intellectuals have aroused as much admiration, hatred, consensus and disapproval as Antonio Negri. Few have conducted such a contradictory and eventful life. Tracing the biography of Antonio Negri, the film tells the story of the utopia of 1968 and the birth of a global protest movement at the end of the last century.

Round table – Heritage and the present. On the radical forms of political movements in Italy
An evening of discussion with Daniele Balicco (Doctor of Research at Siena University), Elanor Colleoni (activist and Doctor of Research at the Bicocca University of Milan, and member of the Chainworkers group), Andreas Pichler (Bolzano film director). The debate will focus on the ambivalent legacy of the Italian radical political tradition regarding new forms of experimentation concerning the conflict within contemporary Italian society.