Francesca Marconi has been dealing with the experimentation and cross-contamination of contemporary art languages, with a focus on the dialogue between the social and geographical borderlands, for more than twenty years. A research that has shaped her as a nomadic, somehow stateless soul, by confronting herself with artists, children, adults, foreigners, women, marginalized communities, slums, public dormitories, prisons, neighborhoods, through the modality of the laboratory. She brings at BASE “Manifesto al Presente” a research workshop developed together with people living in situations of marginalization and fragility in the conntemporary social/public sphere: first and second generation migrants, sex workers, members of the LGBTQIA+ community, children. “Manifesto al presente” is a political and poetic reading of workers’ testimonies projected into the broader processes of hegemonic capitalism resonating in the past, present and future.