Feminist Resonances between Text and Image: Visual Practices since the 1970s

On the occasion of the fifth stop of the international tour presenting the volume “Lucia Marcucci. Tutto qui?”, a new moment of exchange takes shape: the conference "Feminist Resonances between Text and Image: Visual Practices since the 1970s."

The event invites us to reflect on how, since the 1970s, feminist thought and practices have reshaped the relationship between word and image-challenging established hierarchies and opening up new possibilities of meaning. From visual poetry to queer practices and transmedia experimentation, the conference explores how artists and gender non-conforming practitioners have transformed language and representation, rewriting narratives around the body, identity, memory, and power.

Organised by Frida Carazzato (Museion), Francesca Verga (Ar/Ge Kunst) and Francesco Ventrella (University of Sussex).

Special thanks to all participants: Karen Di Franco, Nam Huh, Lucy Reynolds, Assunta Ruocco, Giulia Zompa, Giulia Colombo, Maria Paganopoulou, Camilla Paolino, Hamida Sivac, Yiyang Chen, Julie Rose Bower, Elena Cologni.

Free admission with registration required by May 13.
For more information and to register: [email protected]

Programme

“Feminist Resonances between Text and Image: Visual Practices since the 1970s”
Friday 15.05.3026 10:00 am - 5:30 pm
Arts A108, University of Sussex

10:00-10:15

Welcome: Frida Carazzato and Francesca Verga

10:15-11:00

Keynote: Karen Di Franco

Resistant Forms: Opacity, Error and Redaction in the Feminist Concrete

11:00-12:00

Feminist Magazines

Giulia Zompa and Giulia Colombo, A Decade of Photography in Self-Published Journals by Milanese Feminist Collectives (1972–1982)

Maria Paganopoulou, Distressed Bodies in Futura Black: Visual Strategies in the Feminist Magazine Poli Gynaikon (1982-1985)

12:30–2:00

Feminist and Queer Mediations

Nam Huh, Circulating Scripts: Feminist and Queer Reconfigurations of Text–Image Relations in Contemporary Moving Image

Lucy Reynolds, Paracinematic Journeying and Feminist Ecologies in Annabel’s Nicolson’s Escaping Notice

Assunta Ruocco, #insertingherselfinarthistory: Alison Lloyd’s Instagram Practice as Feminist Text-Image

2:15-3:15

Italian Resonances

Camilla Paolino, “S … ama le donne.” On Visual Poetry and Lesbian Desire in 1970s Italy

Hamida Sivac, Escaping the Alphabet. Feminist Strategies of Linguistic Disobedience

3:45-5:30

Texts and Images in Practice

Yiyang Chen, Becoming Monstrous: Bodily Reading-Archiving as Queer Feminist Reenactment

Julie Rose Bower, Tracing (with the Tip of the Tongue)

Elena Cologni, Notes on Care (Soil Time)

About the publication

Lucia Marcucci. Tutto qui? is the first comprehensive critical study dedicated to one of the leading voices of Visual Poetry since the 1960s.

Developed as part of a joint research project following the exhibitions Poesie e no (Museion) and L’Offesa (Ar/Ge Kunst), the monograph brings together rare works, unpublished texts, and newly uncovered archival material.

Organised into four thematic chapters with essays by eight international authors (Claudia Crocco, Gilda Policastro, Francesco Tenaglia, Maria Alicata, Annalisa Sacchi, Giulia Crispiani, Dalila Colucci, Vanessa Desclaux e Raffaella Perna), alongside Marcucci’s own writings, the publication traces her dialogue with the Italian Neo-Avant-Garde, experimental cinema, performance, and activism.

The project is supported by the Italian Council program (2024) promoted by the Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity of the Italian Ministry of Culture, and was realized by Museion in collaboration with Ar/Ge Kunst.

Publication details:

Lucia Marcucci. Tutto qui?
Curated by: Frida Carazzato (Museion), Francesca Verga (Ar/Ge Kunst)
Design: bruno – Andrea Codolo, Giacomo Covacich, with/con/mit Alessandro Durighello
Publisher: bruno, Venice/Venezia/Venedig
Languages: Italian, English, German
Pages: 248 | Price/Prezzo/Preis: 35 € | ISBN 978-88-99058-85-2
Year: 2025