Antonio Nicaso and Chiara Bertola Discuss Creativity and Organized Crime on Contemporaneamente Podcast

In the Contemporaneamente podcast hosted by Mariantonietta Firmani, journalist Antonio Nicaso and curator Chiara Bertola explore the intersection of creativity and organized crime. Nicaso, a leading expert on the 'ndrangheta and professor at Queen's University in Canada, argues that mafia capital now fuels the legal economy and that combating organized crime requires cultural change, not just law enforcement. Bertola, curator of the contemporary art project 'Conservare il futuro' at Fondazione Querini Stampalia in Venice since 1999 and former artistic director of Hangar Bicocca in Milan, emphasizes that art can be disruptive when it rejects banality. The conversation critiques media-driven cultural flattening since the 1980s and highlights the need for deep knowledge to interpret narratives. The episode is available on Spreaker.