Feminist Resonances between Text and Image: Visual Practices since the 1970s

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15.05.2026, 10:00—17:30

Arts A108, University of Sussex

Photo: Giacomo Bianco

The international tour presentation of the volume Lucia Marcucci. Tutto qui? continues in a new format: the conference Feminist Resonances between Text and Image: Visual Practices since the 1970s, hosted at Arts A108, University of Sussex.

The event offers a reflection on how, since the 1970s, feminist thought and practices have transformed the relationship between word and image in the visual arts, challenging traditional hierarchies between verbal language and visual representation.

Through historical and theoretical perspectives, the conference explores how feminist artists and practices have used language as both material and critical tool to subvert dominant narratives related to gender, body, memory, and power, opening up new possibilities of meaning-making and representation.

Organised by Frida Carazzato (Museion), Francesco Ventrella (University of Sussex), and Francesca Verga (Ar/Ge Kunst), with the support of Italian Council, the conference will be held in English.

Participation is free of charge, but registration is required by 13 May. To register, please contact: f.ventrella@sussex.ac.uk

Program

10:00-10:15

Welcome: Frida Carazzato and Francesca Verga

10:15-11:00

Keynote: Karen Di Franco

Resistant Forms: Opacity, Error and Redaction in the Feminist Concrete

11:00-12:00

Feminist Magazines

Giulia Zompa and Giulia Colombo, A Decade of Photography in Self-Published Journals by Milanese Feminist Collectives (1972–1982)

Maria Paganopoulou, Distressed Bodies in Futura Black: Visual Strategies in the Feminist Magazine Poli Gynaikon (1982-1985)

12:30–2:00

Feminist and Queer Mediations

Nam Huh, Circulating Scripts: Feminist and Queer Reconfigurations of Text–Image Relations in Contemporary Moving Image

Lucy Reynolds, Paracinematic Journeying and Feminist Ecologies in Annabel’s Nicolson’s Escaping Notice

Assunta Ruocco, #insertingherselfinarthistory: Alison Lloyd’s Instagram Practice as Feminist Text-Image

2:15-3:15

Italian Resonances

Camilla Paolino, “S … ama le donne.” On Visual Poetry and Lesbian Desire in 1970s Italy

Hamida Sivac, Escaping the Alphabet. Feminist Strategies of Linguistic Disobedience

3:45-5:30

Texts and Images in Practice

Yiyang Chen, Becoming Monstrous: Bodily Reading-Archiving as Queer Feminist Reenactment

Julie Rose Bower, Tracing (with the Tip of the Tongue)

Elena Cologni, Notes on Care (Soil Time)

Feminist Resonances between Text and Image: Visual Practices since the 1970s

Event

15.05.2026, 10:00—17:30

Location: Arts A108, University of Sussex