Annalisa Sacchi in conversation with Giuseppe Allegri, Viola Lo Moro and Nicolas Martino
Inappropriabili. Relazioni, opere e lotte nelle arti performative in Italia (1959-1979) is the forthcoming book by Annalisa Sacchi, soon to be published by Marsilio Editore. “Inappropriable” refers to the experiences of those who, during the Sixties and Seventies, viewed performance as a means to explore experimental territories and dismantle the boundaries between disciplines.
Events, ideas, and performances detailed in the book trace a knot of relationships: the so-called Hot Autumn, anti-psychiatry, and Giuliano Scabia’s poetic militancy; the Algerian War in Luigi Nono’s musical theatre; the ecopolitics of John Cage and Aldo Braibanti; as well as persecutions, trials, and detentions. It also covers Patrizia Vicinelli’s sonic poetry, Alberto Grifi’s cinema-performance, theatre as the “tumour of society,” and Leo de Berardinis and Perla Peragallo’s struggles for meridionalism. The book examines the unexpected alliances between diverse subjects, the work, and the scandals surrounding Carmelo Bene, Emilio Villa, and Jean-Jacques Lebel. The goal is to reconstruct artistic genealogies and highlight the transformative power of the struggles and relationships central to the two decades that reshaped what was possible in art—and, by extension, in life.
Annalisa Sacchi teaches at the Iuav University in Venice where, since 2017, she has been directing the course in Theatre and Performing Arts. Her project INCOMMON won the European Research Council Grant. She taught at Queen Mary University in London, New York University, Harvard and University College London. Among her books Itinera. Trajectoires de la forme Tragedia Endogonidia (with E. Pitozzi, 2008), Il posto del re. Estetiche del teatro di regia nel modernismo e nel contemporaneo (2012), Shakespeare per la Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio (2014), La performance della memoria (curated with F. Bortoletti, 2018), In Fiamme. La performance nello spazio delle lotte (1967-1979) (curated with P. Di Matteo and I. Caleo, 2021). She has been co-directing the festival Asteroide Amor in Venezia with Susanne Franco since 2021.
Giuseppe Allegri is a scholar of the theory and history of political institutions, constitutional comparative law, and the evolution of work and cultural entrepreneurship between innovation and social security. He is active as a cultural organiser and collaborates with foundations, research centres, and the CoRiS Department of Rome University La Sapienza. He writes for such magazines and newspapers as Il manifesto and OperaViva Magazine; he is a founding member of Basic Income Network – Italia. He authored and curated studies and researches as Il reddito di base nell’era digitale, Rivoluzione tra mito e costituzione, La città come istituzione, entro e oltre lo Stato, La furia dei cervelli, Il quinto stato (with R. Ciccarelli), Sogno europeo o incubo? and Libertà e lavoro dopo il Jobs Act (with G. Bronzini).
Viola Lo Moro is a lesbo-feminist poet and activist. She is an associate of the women’s bookshop-café Tuba in Rome. In Autumn 2020 her debut poetry collection, Cuore Allegro, was published by Perrone editore. She is the curator of a section dedicated to literary dialogues part within the theatre season of Spazio Kor in Asti. In 2022 her second collection of poems, Luoghi Amati, was published for Perrone editore. She is a member of the artistic collective GROSSO SONNO VIOLA along with musician Grosso Bernardo and illustrator Sonno. In 2024 she was selected for a poetry anthology entitled Incantamenti (Vydia editore). Her poems have been translated into Polish, Greek, Catalan and French.
Nicolas Martino is the founder and editor of OperaViva Magazine. He has written several essays published in volumes and catalogues. He is the author of È solo l’inizio. Rifiuto, affetti, creatività nel lungo ’68 with Ilaria Bussoni (ombre corte 2018), L’intelligenza in lotta. Sapere e produzione nel tardocapitalismo (ombre corte, 2021) with F. Raparelli. He is the curator of essays by Franco Berardi Bifo and Toni Negri on contemporary art and criticism. He collaborates to the programme of Rome Quadriennale (2022-2024) and is part of the editorial staff of the quarterly Quaderni d’arte italiana (Treccani). He teaches Aesthetics at the NABA in Rome and at the Schools of Fine Arts in Genoa and Sassari.
ph. Courtesy of Associazione culturale Alberto Grifi
