Veranstaltungen

27.10.2023

Giulia Palladini

For an indomitable domestics

Villa Romana is hosting the penultimate appointment for A House for Mending, Troubling, Repairing.

Giulia Palladini is a writer, critical theorist and educator. Her work moves between different languages,
and fields of knowledge, exploring in particular the politics and erotics of artistic production, social and
cultural history, archive and historiography. Her projects are in dialogue with historical-materialism,
feminisms, critical race theory, and contemporary political movements. She has worked in various
universities, research and art institutions on an international level in the field of theatre, performance
and live arts: among them, the University of Roehampton in London, the Kunsthochschule
Berlin-Weissensee, the Universidad Nacional de Colombia in Bogota. She is an Alexander von
Humboldt alumna. She has collaborated as theorist and dramaturg in a number of critical and artistic
projects, in particular with the Colombian artistic group Mapa Teatro. She is the author of The Scene
of Foreplay: Theater, Labor and Leisure in 1960s New York (2017) and co-editor of Lexicon for an
Affective Archive (2017). In 2021, she led the international research cluster ‘Feminismos
Antipatriarcales and Poetic Disobedience’(UK/Mx/Brazil/Ecuador), part of the collaborative project
‘Queer Feminist Currents’.

For an indomitable domestics, Giulia Palladini's lecture at Villa Romana, addresses the relation
between ‘politics’ and ‘domestics’; suggesting that the set of activities associated with organising,
maintaining and inhabiting a house constitute a category in its own right, and that, as much as the
organising, maintaining and inhabiting a polis, this category is not a given, but is a field of struggle and
imagination. In exploring the idea of ‘domestics’, she is interested, on one hand, in acknowledging the
disdain that has historically characterised the "domestic sphere," relegating it to something foreign to
creativity, anomaly, and the unknown; and on the other, in looking at domestics as a domain of radical
immanence: as an erotic and emancipatory alternative to the globalised flexibility of relationships and
labour, as an outpost for rethinking what a home might be. Bringing the domestic back to the centre of
a reflection on processes of art production and reproduction means thinking of gestures which
uncouple the idea of ‘home’ from the realm of private life and make it an instrument to think and build
public life.

The project is realised with the contribution of the Fondazione CR Firenze.

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