News of the second phase of...
We are delighted to announce that we have won an AHRC standard grant of £680,000 to enable us to continue this project from summer 2015 until the end of 2018....
Giuliana Pieri, Emanuela Patti
Collaborative Artistic Theory and Practice. ‘Le ragioni dei gruppi’: Gruppo 70
In 1962, the journal Questo e altro, in a position article, questioned the traditional boundaries of literature: Quali sono oggi i confini della letteratura, tra l’arcadia e il proclama, il laboratorio e...
Collaborative Artistic Theory and Practice. ‘Le ragioni dei gruppi’: Polystyrene Moon Above A Plastic Colosseum
[translated by Georgia Wall] In the catalogue accompanying the 1990 exhibition Roma anni ’60. Al di là della pittura, the founder of Rome’s Tartaruga Gallery, Plinio De Martiis, declares, ‘if you went...
Interdisciplinary Italy and Tate Exchange: Some Students’ Perspectives
In 2017, we have partnered up with two schools (in Surrey and Yorkshire) and have brought together historians, art historians, designers, and students of Italian to rethink the way we approach and...
Dr Brook’s Keynote on ‘Expanded Cinema’ at the ASMI Conference
Dr Clodagh Brook is delivering the Friday Keynote at the ASMI Postgraduate Conference in Royal Holloway on 23rd July. Her talk focuses on the concept of “expansion†of the arts, a concept...
Creativity, Inclusivity and Linguistic Sensitivity in Language Learning: Collaborative Translation Workshops
How can we look beyond national borders in language-learning? What could a ‘transnational’ language teaching approach look like in practical terms? In light of exciting contemporary perspectives which seek to undermine the...
Cesare Fabbri, ‘The Flying Carpet’: The Lightness of a Photography Done On Foot
Cesare Fabbri (Ravenna, 1971) studied urban planning and photography at the IUAV in Venice and has taught alongside Guido Guidi at various institutions. Since 2000 he has engaged with photographic research, working...
The Personal Is (Still) Political. Towards an Aesthetical Historiography of the 1977 Student Movement
This year marks the 40th anniversary of the 1977 student movement in Italy. Unlike 1968, the events of 1977 continue to linger in a grey zone suspended between personal testimony and historical...
Contemporary Art in Eastern Sicily: Emotional Threads of a Journey
Key research continues to be carried out on peripheral space in the works of visual artists. In spite of the different perspectives from which every artistic intervention can be read, three recurrent...
Verba Picta: Navigating Multimediality in the Italian Poetry of the Last Half Century
The investigation of the close dialogue between poetic and visual language in the Italian panorama of the last seventy years is at the centre of the research project Verba Picta. Interrelazione tra...
Dealing with Difficult Heritage: Interdisciplinarity and the Afterlife of Fascist Architecture in Italy
The definition of difficult heritage I use here is indebted to Sharon Macdonald’s important study of the heritage of Nazi Germany, according to which difficult heritage is ‘a past that is recognised...