Saturday 12 December, 11.30am – 10pm, The Showroom

Now You Can Go Seminar

£12/£8 Concessions

Child care by Little Kunst is available from 11.30am - 6.30pm. Advance booking required.

11.30am Registration

11.45am Introduction curator Helena Reckitt

12pm-1.30pm

Don’t Think You Have Any Rights: The Challenges of Italian Feminisms

Talks by Fulvia Carnevale of Claire Fontaine; art theorist Marina Vishmidt (by Skype), and art theorist and Carla Lonzi specialist Giovanna Zapperi. Introduced by art historian Francesco. 

2.30pm – 4.00pm

The Challenges of Italian Feminisms Panel Discussion: keynote speakers Fulvia Carnevale of Claire Fontaine and Giovanna Zapperi are joined in discussion by artist Zach Blas, feminist legal theorist Maria Drakopoulou and art historian Francesco Ventrella.  Speakers consider the provocations of Italian feminisms, from the rejection of equal rights activism to demands for wages for housework and the development of political tactics that stemmed from intimate practices of autocoscienza and female mediation.

 The discussion starts with a screening of Alex Martinis Roe’s film A story from Circolo della rosa, 2014, which features two women active in the Milan Women’s Bookstore Collective.

4.30pm – 6pm

In or Out?: On Leaving the Art World and Other Systems, Part 1

First in two-part series of brief presentations on tactics and politics of refusal, withdrawal, and exit. Artist Carla Cruz; artist Andrea Francke; and pedestrian and environmental activist Caroline Russell. Chaired by art historian Catherine Grant.

7pm – 8.30pm

In or Out?: On Leaving the Art World and Other Systems, Part 2

Second in two-part series of brief presentations on tactics and politics of refusal, withdrawal, and exit by curator and archivist Karen Di Franco; artist Karolin Meunier; artist Raju Rage; and Utopia Arts Artistic Director Frances Rifkin. Chaired by writer and curator Gabrielle Moser.

‘In or Out?’ is supported by the Women’s Art Library at Goldsmiths, University of London

Gabrielle Moser’s participation is supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, which last year invested $153 million to bring the arts to Canadians throughout the country.

8.30pm – 9.30pm, The Showroom

A Feminist Chorus for Feminist Revolt

A spoken distillation of the monthly discussions and readings of Italian feminist texts made by the Feminist Duration Reading Group, and gathered into a score by Lucy Reynolds.

image:  Ketty La Rocca, Appendice per una supplica, 1972, still from video. Courtesy of The  Estate Ketty La Rocca, Florence (managed by the artist’s son, Michelangelo Vasta).