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IN PRAISE OF COMMUNITY: SHARED CREATIVITY IN ARTS AND POLITICS IN ITALY 1959 TO 1979 - Dr. Annalisa Sacchi

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IN PRAISE OF COMMUNITY: SHARED CREATIVITY IN ARTS AND POLITICS IN ITALY 1959 TO 1979

INCOMMON PROJECT

InCommon will be the first study tosystematically approach, map, andvisualize the field of performing arts asresulting from the practice of commonality both theorized and experienced over the 1960s and the 1970s.In particular, the project will address the ‘laboratory Italy’ as the place whereperforming arts originated from thecollaboration of a network of artists,critical theorists and activistsof the counterculture.


WHAT IS COUNTERCULTURE?

Time frame: 1959-1979Italian counterculture of the 1960s and 1970s was aimed at subverting the role of established institutions through irony,self-organization, disobedience, autonomy, and creativity as weapons to oppose the “monopoly of the political decision-making”.


DARIO FO AND LA COMUNE

Activists and Critical Theorists:Mario TrontiToni NegriOreste ScalzonePietro ValpredaAdriano Sofri, etc

Main issues:State MurderAnarchismLegalization of abortionAnti-fascismRed Aid

Performances:Morte accidentale di un anarchicoMistero Buffo (second edition)Non si paga non si pagaIl Fanfani rapitoGuerra di popolo in CilePum pum chi è? La poliziaBasta con i fascisti


BASAGLIA AND MARCO CAVALLO

Franco Basaglia‘Total Institutional’ negationNational Law for the closure of Italian asylums

Stagingof the performanceMarco Cavallo, 1973

Network of artistsGiuliano ScabiaVittorio BasagliaAlberto Grifi Sylvano AgostiSilvano Bussotti, etc


RESEARCH QUESTION

Performing artsDynamism of the Network (Artists, Critical theorists and Activists)

Cultural action and social change

Counterculture

Shared creativityand Will-to-the-common


TIMELINE AND CASE STUDIES

CaligolaCarmelo Bene

La Fabbricailluminata

Scabia, Nono, Pavese

Orlando FuriosoRonconi, Sanguineti

Marco CavalloScabia

Settimana internazionale della performance

Inondazione de l’Attico

Don ChisciotteBene, de Berardinis

Morte accidentale di un anarchicoDario Fo - La Comune

Bello e bastaPistoletto

Puntodi rotturaCarrozzone

Contemporanea

CamionCarlo QuartucciTeatro di Dioniso

Celli, Carella,Teatro Spoleto off

CottimistiRem & Cap

Luci della cittàGaia Scienza

1959 1964 1967 1968 1969 1970 1973 1974 1976 1977 1978 1979


CHALLENGES

Challenge 1: how to analyse the network?Solution:a novel methodology that interweavesthe scholarly approaches of theatrehistoriography, semiotics, performance studies, political and critical theory with Network analysis.


CHALLENGES

Challenge 2: what and how to collectSolution:InCommon will link the counterculturerecords referred to performing artstogether for the first time by creatinga unified metadata scheme for all of itskey elements.


CHALLENGES

Challenge 3: how to visualize the Network Solution:InCommon will design rich, ‘generous’interfaces through which to get access to its digital collection.The users will see, at a glance, the net that held this community together.


EXPECTED RESULTS

InCommon will provide at the same time the novel atlas and the new toolsto navigate the lost continentof counterculture giving primacyto performance/s, and will develop new insights and skills in innovative humanities and social science in general.


IMPACT

InCommon will:> provide a new methodology to

investigate complex networksand relations among different spheres

> contribute to the definition of a newbenchmark for archiving and analysingcollective performing art works andcomplex, multimedia events

> advance the definition of shared stan-dards that will apply to similar research.

In conclusion, InCommon aspires to be ‘transformative’ for artistic, political, and social research.

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