Radical Countryside

25/10/2021, h. 10:15 – 14:15
Piattaforma Webex

The seminar will explore artistic, architectural and design practices that claim, perform, and enact subversive retellings of institutionalized and hegemonic historical accounts of non-urban environments in 1970s Italy. For several of the figures involved, working in the countryside and with rural dwellers meant exploring contexts less affected by modern consumerist lifestyles and cultures that entertained pre-industrial relationships with their living environment. The two-year experiment of the workshop “Possibility of an island”, held in the Chianti hills in 2020 and 2021, has been re-enlivening the legacy of a series of experimental workshops held in the Tuscan countryside by radical groups in the ‘70s. Meant to regain possession of a bodily dimension after the lockdown, it seeked a new happiness that would stem from a rediscovery of the countryside as a space of freedom – an island – among more institutionalized “places” of cultural production.

Relatori:
Margherita Marri, CAPTCHA – “The Possibility of an Island”
Elisabetta Rattalino, Unibz) – “Land Tool Rites: Art and Design Practices in Rural Italy (1949-2015)”

Discussant: Nina Bassoli, Politecnico di Milano

Responsabile: Gaia Piccarolo