Contact zones: activism, art and media in Italy, 1994-2006

Funding: 2005: $72,000
2006: $60,000
2007: $95,000

Project Member(s): Vanni Accarigi, I.

Funding or Partner Organisation: Australian Research Council (ARC Discovery Projects)

Start year: 2005

Summary: The last decade in Italy has seen the proliferation of innovative activist practices resulting from a productive traffic between political theory with art and media. Merging with activism, art and media practices take a dynamic role in the promotion of social change while simultaneously providing a critical commentary to social and political issues in contemporary Italy. This research, which will result in a book length study, will be the first to explore the emergence of contact zones in these practices.

Publications:

Vanni Accarigi, I 2020, Precarious Objects. Activism and Design in Italy, Manchester University Press, Manchester.

Vanni Accarigi, I 2019, ''Un altro stile è possibile'. Serpica Naro, una storia alternativa al sistema della moda' in Evans, C & Vaccari, A (eds), Il tempo della moda, Mimesis Edizioni, Milano & Udine, pp. 188-195.

Vanni, I 2016, '“Why Save the World When You can Design It?” Precarity and Fashion in Milan', Fashion Theory, vol. 20, no. 4, pp. 441-460.
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Crosby, A 2013, 'Remixing environmentalism in Blora, Central Java 2005-10', INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CULTURAL STUDIES, vol. 16, no. 3, pp. 257-269.
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Keywords: Italy, Social change, Activism, Contemporary art, Media, Politics,

FOR Codes: Cultural Studies not elsewhere classified, Cultural Theory, Social Change, Understanding other countries, Visual communication, Studies in human society, Expanding Knowledge through Studies of Human Society, International Relations not elsewhere classified, Communication, International relations, EXPANDING KNOWLEDGE

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