The RESONANCE Reading Group is a monthly meeting that brings together members of the academic community, colleagues, friends, and enthusiasts of contemporary cultural history to reflect on and discuss a fundamental text or book. It is part of the project RESONANCE — Epistemologies for the Documentation of Affect and Becoming in Cultural Manifestations in Performance (1969-1979).

The sixth session (12:00) focuses on Chapter 7 of the book Images of Class: Operaismo, Autonomia and the Visual Arts (1962-1988). The chapter “Art against Housework: The Gruppo Immagine and the Wages for Housework Campaign” brings together discussions on social reproduction vis-à-vis informal networks of solidarity across feminist art practice ecologies in the 1970s. This is a key text to explore the infrastructural dynamics of these movements with a close reading of artistic production at the crux of the Operaismo and Autonomia movements. This reading group is going to be led by Hélia Marçal (IHA, FCSH-UNL) and will count with the author’s participation, Jacopo Galimberti.

You can register by emailing Hélia Marçal at resonance.fcsh.unl@gmail.com, to receive a PDF copy of the chapter.

In the context of the RESONANCE project, Jacopo Galimberti will deliver a seminar featuring his latest research at the Salão Nobre of Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas (Universidade Nova de Lisboa), 18.00. The session (“Hopeful Monsters: Operaismo, Autonomia, and the Reconfiguration of Revolutionary Subjectivity”) seeks to trace the representation of revolutionary subjectivity, focusing on the figure of the monster as depicted in Italy in the 1960s and 1970s. Galimberti will explore these hopeful monsters as a visual reflection on the political taxonomies of the twentieth century, tracing, in the process, the characteristics of a revolutionary subjectivity. The talk will be delivered in English.