This new website is a space to discuss, create, curate and teach things like this:
It is a space for academics, artists, museum curators and teachers to explore and experiment with what we call ‘interartistic’ and ‘intermedial’ practices
A Definition of Interart/Intermedia
- Forms of art and media which merge more than one art. For example, opera (as text and music), sound art, digital visual poetry, cinema, graphic novels, performance art
- A field of practices in which artists and writers who conceptualise their work in terms of more than one art or media. Poet Edoardo Sanguineti, for example, discusses composer Arnold Schoenberg as an inspiration for his poetic collection, Laborintus (1956)
We argue that until very recently this interartistic and intermedial work was often lost in academic discussions of Italian culture. However, it is far too exciting, experimental (and often transgressive) to be forgotten. On this website we give it the space we think it deserves.
The focus of this website is 20th and 21st century Italy. We will also, however, put modern Italy in context, from time to time, with other countries and with other time periods.
The website is a product, and a work-in-progress, of the Interdisciplinary Italy project, run by Clodagh Brook, Florian Mussgnug and Giuliana Pieri. Emanuela Patti managed the website for several years for the team. Our current blog editor and social media manager is Eleonora Lima (2018-present). Please contact her if you wish to contribute to the blog or publicise your events through it. A wonderful team of artists, museum curators, teachers and academics support us. The Estorick Collection of Modern Art is our official partner. We are immensely grateful for this team’s ideas and enthusiasm: without them this website would not be possible. The project is supported by a generous grant of £680,000 from the AHRC.
In recent years the project has expanded into a broad project team which in 2023 includes: Dr Adele Bardazzi (University of Utrecht), Dr Marco Bellardi (University College Dublin), Dr Cecilia Brioni (University of Aberdeen), Dr Eleonora Lima (Trinity College), and Emanuela Patti (University of Edinburgh).
This website is conceived as a dynamic space for co-writing across artistic disciplines, for exploring and sharing theories of interartistic and intermedial practice, and for thinking about how these might apply to museums and in schools. We hope to create a hub for those of you engaged with these kinds of ideas and practices whether artists, academics, curators, teachers, students, or indeed anyone interested in these ideas.
