Lecture: Jacopo Galimberti - The Housewife and the Dragon: Visualizing Insubordination in Operaismo and Autonomia
09. Mai
The Housewife and the Dragon: Visualizing Insubordination in Operaismo and Autonomia
9 May, 6:15pm, C 40.606
“During the 1960s and 1970s, Operaismo and Autonomia were prominent Marxist currents in Italy. However, it is rarely acknowledged that these social movements inspired many visual artists; in fact, Workerism and Autonomia also developed into complex cultural trends involving a plurality of aesthetic approaches, a distinctive iconography, an epistemology and a theory of culture. Based on extensive archival research, this talk will discuss two thematic threads of Images of Class. Operaismo, Autonomia and the Visual Arts (1962-1988) (Verso, 2022): the political iconography of the worker as a monster and that of the housewife as an unruly subject unsettling both social reproduction and the principles of Marxism.”
Jacopo Galimberti is an art historian and assistant professor at IUAV (Venice). He is the author of Individuals against Individualism. Western European Art Collectives (1956–1969) (Liverpool University Press, 2017), Détournement & Kitsch. Die Postkarten von Hans Peter Zimmer/Les cartes postales de Hans Peter Zimmer (Les Presses Universitaires de Nanterre, 2021) and of Images of Class: Operaismo, Autonomia and the Visual Arts (1962-1988) (Verso Books, 2022). He also co-edited several books including Art, Global Maoism and the Chinese Cultural Revolution (Manchester, 2020) and the latest thematic issue of The Oxford Art Journal, which is devoted to the representation of social classes in contemporary art.
The lecture will be held in English. The subsequent discussion will be multi-lingual. Questions can be asked in German.
Hosted by the Center for Critical Studies.
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