The eighth session of the Interarts and Intermedia seminars, organized by the THELEME group at the Centre for Comparative Studies, will be held on the 8th of June, from 2pm to 3:30 pm (Lisbon local time).

Marzia D'Amico, who recently joined the THELEME group at the Centre for Comparative Studies, will present an aspect of her ongoing research project: "Women’s Experimentalism: Poetry that Matters"

The session - in English - will be moderated by the three organizers of the seminars, to welcome Marzia and to close one more year of our seminars in a colegial and festive way. The presentation will be followed by questions and a debate with the audience. Questions in Portuguese and Italian will be translated.

This session will take place in person in room B5 of the Faculdade de Letras, Universidade de Lisboa (main entrance of the FLUL library), and will be accessible by videoconference through the following link. Meeting ID: 898 4128 7536 - free entrance.

Resumo (abstract):

This presentation will display the ongoing research on experimental poetry in Italy produced by non-male subjects that began in the 60s and continued to the 80s. By adopting feminist practice as its main interpretative tool, it will be presented a case study of selected poems by Giulia Niccolai from POEMA & OGGETTO (1974, re-ed il Verri 2014), a fundamental book in the Italian concrete poetry horizon and for feminist liberation. In this groundbreaking book, the theme and forms of weaving are playful and yet conceptually dense, tying together poetic experimentalism and female experience. In adherence to her playful poetics, Niccolai materialises gender-oppression in concrete poetry and contests it through bilingual wordplays, actual pins, and numerous puns.