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Category Archives: History
Curating New Media Art in Italy in the 1980s: The Uneasiness of Medium Contingency
In 1986, the Venice Biennale gave much attention to a renewed interest in the relationship between art and science: a thematic umbrella under which the latest developments in the field of communication...
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...
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,...
Massini’s Lehman Trilogy: An Epic Theatrical Poem in Cinematic Cut
The Lehman Trilogy by Stefano Massini (Firenze, 1975) presents a new form of writing which combines the metrical structure of a highly poetic and rhythmic prose as in a ballad, with theatrical/cinematic...
Interdisciplinarity and Collaborative Writing in the Humanities: Lara Saint Paul and the Performativity of Race
Why is collaborative writing regarded with distrust in the Humanities, while in the Sciences articles by multiple authors are standard practice? A possible answer can be found in an essay by Donald...
Modernist Art during the Catastrophe: The Italian Premiere of Bartók’s Ballet ‘The Miraculous Mandarin’ in 1942
‘How dangerously blurring would it be […] if the Nazi heart had the cheek or the hypocrisy even to beat for Franz Marc or, in another field, for Bartók […]. The fact that...
Gianni Toti’s Poetronics in Augmented Reality
Gianni Toti (Rome, 24Â June 1924 – 8Â January 2007) was the Italian poet, author, journalist, photographer and filmmaker who created ‘Poetronica’, a fusion of poetry and electronics. The poet demonstrated the potential of...
Gillo Dorfles (1910-2018): The Freedom of Mythopoeia
by Florian Mussgnug When the members of Gruppo 63 assembled for the third time, in 1965, to discuss the fate of the experimental novel, Gillo Dorfles agreed to open the debate with...
REWINDItalia. Early Video Art in Italy
In the 70s and 80s, Italy was a fertile ground for the experimentation of video as art practice. At the time, the most relevant Italian video art centres – which included art/tapes/22,...
The Cinematic Mode in Fiction
Cinema has influenced modern and contemporary culture in many ways, for example by contributing to reshaping language, reinforcing or dismantling sexual biases, addressing politics and family order, fostering fashion trends, and triggering...