Italian Language in the Gallery
The Making of Modern Italy: Art and Design in the early 1960s (Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art between, 29 January-7th April 2019) curated by Giuliana Pieri, offered the opportunity to organize...
Martina Borghi
Sirio Luginbühl: Experimental Films
“Sirio Luginbühl: film sperimentali”, an exhibition curated by Guido Bartorelli and Lisa Parolo, was held at Palazzo Pretorio, Cittadella, Italy (April- September 2018). Promoted by the Fondazione Palazzo Pretorio Onlus in collaboration...
Creative Thinking Labs: Logos, Techne, and Critical Thinking
When do conferences break new ground? One can think about individual presentations, or panels, that stand out as paradigm shifting – though this is often a tall order in the short twenty-minute...
Verga and Duse: Shaping an Italian Identity on Stage
My contribution at the recent Interart/Intermedia conference looked at the interartistic collaboration between Verga and Duse and the effect their collaboration had on Italy’s artistic creativity: observations which have been inspired by...
Making Moves: Three Positions. Three Days of Sound, Dance and Experimental Art Making (May 16-18 2019, Tate Modern)
Join staff and students from Royal Holloway’s departments of Drama, Theatre & Dance, Geography, Modern Languages, Music, and Electronic Engineering for three days of sound, dance and experimental art making. The three-day...
Wu Ming: Boundaries of Human and Posthuman Collaborations
Every time that someone asks me to explain what my research is about, I mumble and mumble without knowing where to start from. Are Wu Ming simply a ‘writing collective’? Wondering ‘what...
Interart/Intermedia in Italy from the Medieval Age to the Present (Royal Holloway, London)
The Interart/Intermedia conference took place on 12th and 13th April 2019 at Royal Holloway. It was organised by the Interdisciplinary Italy team and hosted some excellent speakers from the UK, Ireland, the...
Re-Shaping Space, Re-Making Theatre: The Case of Teatro Valle Occupato Between Activism and Art Intervention
In June 2011, a group of artists who identified themselves as ‘lavoratori e lavoratrici dello spettacolo’, occupied an historic theatre in Rome – the Teatro Valle – with the aim to prevent...
Thinking, Making, and Thinking through Making
As a new workshop with schools at Tate Exchange fast approaches (Tate Modern, 16 May 2019, 12-3pm), and our collaboration with schools around the country continues to flourish, I continue to reflect...
Staged Narratives, Narrative Stages: The Entanglement of Theatre and Narrative in Italian Literature
Once upon a time there was the storyteller – the aedo, the bard, the cantastorie. He – or she – was a performer and a magician, an author, an actor, a shaman,...