• Santa Caterina’s Church
Thursday 14th November, 17.30-19.00
The Body of Pages.
Writing and Life in Carla Lonzi
Book presentation with the authors Linda Bertelli – lecturer in Aesthetics, School IMT Alti Studi Lucca, and Marta Equi Pierazzini – researcher and lecturer at Bocconi University and Brera Academy of Fine Arts.
Moderator: Elena Magalotti
With this book, Linda Bertelli and Marta Equi Pierazzini propose an interpretation of the existential and intellectual story of Carla Lonzi (1931-1982) that centres on the radical thinker’s relationship with writing. Expression, questioning of the self and feminist political practice, in Lonzi writing becomes one with life. In continuity with the idea of writing as a material adherence to experience, the authors outline the elements of a feminist critique of culture in Lonzi, also presenting an unpublished reflection on the organisation of the publishing house Scritti di Rivolta Femminile.
The result of years of research and articulated archive work, the book is characterised by a rich documentary, textual and iconographic apparatus, which makes it possible, also through various unpublished works, to interpret Lonzi’s thought in an original way. Interwoven with the existential vicissitudes of the authors, the writing practice of this book brings to the fore, in the form of a concluding dialogue between them, the challenge and the legacy that Carla Lonzi leaves for contemporary action, in the sign of the inseparability between symbolic production and experience.
Linda Bertelli
Linda Bertelli teaches Aesthetics at the IMT Scuola Alti Studi Lucca. His research covers the theory of image, the history of photography between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and the history of feminist movements in Italy in the second half of the twentieth century. In addition to the two books on the theory of image and representation by Henri Bergson (2014) and on the aesthetics by Ernst Bloch (2018), she has published essays on Étienne-Jules Marey and chronophotography, on the history and theory of photography, on the work of Italian feminist theorist Carla Lonzi and on feminist aesthetic theories.
Marta Equi Pierazzini
Marta Equi Pierazzini is a researcher and university lecturer. Her research looks at the intersection of organizational and managerial studies and feminist theory, with a particular focus on gender issues in the arts and culture. He has published articles on the contemporary art system, on the careers of artists in the art market and on Carla Lonzi. He teaches in Milan, at the Bocconi University and the Brera Academy of Fine Arts.
Elena Magalotti
Elena Magalotti graduated in Philosophical Sciences at the Alma Mater Studiorum in Bologna with a thesis entitled The dignity of women and its violation.
Passionate about feminist thought and practices, she joined the association Hypatia Liberedonne, for which she regularly holds cycles of meetings dedicated to the history of women and the feminist movement.
She has worked in social projects aimed at promoting the autonomy of women victims of gender-based violence. She is currently a teacher and social worker in the Sai shelter project and in the Centro Interculturale Movimenti. She has hosted the podcast Femminismi dal Mondo for Radio Contra and is involved in the dissemination of feminine and feminist thought for the website Filosofemme and for Filosofe the podcast.
