Now we have seen. Women and Art in the Seventies in Italy

This workshop is part of the homonymous research project supported by the Italian Council (2022), Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity, Italian Ministry of Culture. The title, inspired from a phrase in the Manifesto di Rivolta Femminile (1970) – “we have been looking for 4000 years: now we have seen!” – investigates the rising awareness of women artists and their need for a change of pace, as declared through the visual verbs “to look” and “to see”, which represent a shift from the passive to the active. The topic of female emancipation in the 1970s is addressed in its privileged connection to the visual arts through the enunciation of several macro-topics leading to a critical and historical analysis of the tools and paradigms of emancipation itself.

Speakers
Silvia Bottinelli, Senior Lecturer and Chair of the Visual and Material Studies Department at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Tufts University, Boston.
Maria Bremer, postdoc researcher at the Ruhr-Universität, Bochum.
Lara Conte, associate professor of Contemporary Art History at Roma Tre University.
Giorgia Gastaldon, assistant professor in Contemporary Art History at the University of Insubria.
Raffaella Perna, assistant professor of Contemporary Art History at the University of Rome La Sapienza.

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PROGRAMMA / PROGRAM
11.00 – 11.30
Saluti Istituzionali e Introduzione
TRISTAN WEDDIGEN, Bibliotheca Hertziana
GIORGIA GASTALDON, Università degli studi dell’Insubria
Moderazione: GIORGIA GASTALDON, Università degli studi dell’Insubria
11.30 – 12.00
The Home in Feminist Art and Visual Culture in 1970s Italy: Refusal and Reappropriation
SILVIA BOTTINELLI, Tufts University, Boston
12.00 – 12.30
All-Women Exhibitions in 1970s Italy
MARIA BREMER, Ruhr University, Bochum
12.30 – 13.00
Discussione

13.00 – 14.00 Pausa

Moderazione: LARA DEMORI, Bibliotheca Hertziana
14.00 – 14.30
“Penso che l’astrazione sia stata favorevole per me in quanto donna”: strategie femministe nell’arte astratta italiana degli anni Settanta
GIORGIA GASTALDON, Università degli studi dell’Insubria
14.30 – 15.00
Una prospettiva geografica e processuale declinata al plurale: scultrici in Italia negli anni Settanta
LARA CONTE, Università degli studi Roma Tre
15.00 – 15.30
Doppia presenza: il lavoro delle donne nella fotografia femminista italiana negli anni Settanta e Ottanta
RAFFAELLA PERNA, Università di Roma La Sapienza
15.30 – 16.30
Discussione e conclusioni finali

Progetto sostenuto dall’Italian Council (2022), Direzione Generale Creatività Contemporanea, Ministero della Cultura

Scientific Organization: Giorgia Gastaldon