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Papers by Leslie Cozzi

Arts, Apr 16, 2020

Metaphor to Métier: Kerry Tribe's Aphasia Poetry Club and the Discourse of Disability in Contempo... more Metaphor to Métier: Kerry Tribe's Aphasia Poetry Club and the Discourse of Disability in Contemporary Art" explores a 2015 video work by Los Angeles-based artist Kerry Tribe. Tribe's "The Aphasia Poetry Club" embodies a shift in contemporary artistic discourse around concepts of physical and cognitive disability. Created by a neurotypical artist, the work uses the medium of the moving image to interpret the experience of aphasia, a neurocognitive language disorder frequently associated with traumatic brain injury. Three distinct visual idioms capture the particular neurological profiles and linguistic patterns of Tribe's chosen participants. Tribe's representation of people living with aphasia disrupts ableist conceits about the human capacity for memory and language. Rather than stigmatizing individual impairments, the work is indicative of a new aesthetic arising from disability experience. The article argues that disability no longer functions in the contemporary art world as a political or spiritual metaphor, but rather has become a site of formal invention and conceptual research.

Cahiers d'études italiennes, Jun 30, 2013

Les contributions présentes dans cet ouvrage rendent compte du passage, qui a eu lieu dans la pér... more Les contributions présentes dans cet ouvrage rendent compte du passage, qui a eu lieu dans la période 1970-2010, du féminisme historique vers une approche gender-oriented dans l’épistémologie et la culture italienne. Les chercheurs qui ont contribué à ce volume sont des spécialistes de plusieurs branches des sciences humaines et sociales, et ils ont donné vie à un ouvrage ainsi structuré : 1 - Théories. Les textes de Di Cori, Setti, Pinzuti et Mirabella relatent du passage épistémologique et de paradigmes entre le féminisme et le gender du point de vue de la situation dans l’université, dans les revues militantes, dans le secteur disciplinaire des études italiennes et dans la philosophie de l'art. 2 - Sociétés, cultures, représentations. Les articles de Garbagnoli et Beaulieu sont centrés sur l’histoire législative et politique italienne (présence des femmes, unions civiles). Ceux de Sensini, Bagini, D’Amora e Cozzi étudient la publicité de mode, la chanson, le théâtre et l’art ...

This fascinating publication sheds light on a medium that combines the qualities of drawing with ... more This fascinating publication sheds light on a medium that combines the qualities of drawing with those of sculpture, printmaking, and painting, and is the first to focus exclusively on the art technique known as frottage, derived from the French word frotter, meaning "to rub." Over 100 pieces, ranging from contemporary conceptual works to rubbings recording tombs and inscriptions, are assembled and sumptuously reproduced in color. More than 50 artists--including the famous, like Max Ernst, inventor of the term "frottage," and the relatively unknown--are presented. Four thematic sections explore different aspects of frottage: its roots in Surrealism and the practice of automatic drawing; the notion of trace, of either a place or an idea left behind in a rubbing; the "apparitions" or ghostlike attributes that can appear on the surface of an artwork; and the associations between rubbings, death, and memory.

Arts, 2020

Metaphor to Métier: Kerry Tribe's Aphasia Poetry Club and the Discourse of Disability in Contempo... more Metaphor to Métier: Kerry Tribe's Aphasia Poetry Club and the Discourse of Disability in Contemporary Art" explores a 2015 video work by Los Angeles-based artist Kerry Tribe. Tribe's "The Aphasia Poetry Club" embodies a shift in contemporary artistic discourse around concepts of physical and cognitive disability. Created by a neurotypical artist, the work uses the medium of the moving image to interpret the experience of aphasia, a neurocognitive language disorder frequently associated with traumatic brain injury. Three distinct visual idioms capture the particular neurological profiles and linguistic patterns of Tribe's chosen participants. Tribe's representation of people living with aphasia disrupts ableist conceits about the human capacity for memory and language. Rather than stigmatizing individual impairments, the work is indicative of a new aesthetic arising from disability experience. The article argues that disability no longer functions in the contemporary art world as a political or spiritual metaphor, but rather has become a site of formal invention and conceptual research.

Cahiers d’études italiennes, 2013

Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory, 2011

‘‘Spaces of self-consciousness’’ examines three environments created by the Italian artist Carla... more ‘‘Spaces of self-consciousness’’ examines three environments created by the
Italian artist Carla Accardi in light of an emerging feminist politics.
Though better known as a painter, Accardi created these three-dimensional
works during an era of political and social upheaval in which her own
commitment to the Italian feminist movement began to take shape.
Her environments were deeply imbricated both with her own experience
of autocoscienza, or consciousness-raising, as well as with radical design
proposals that rejected the current state of civilization. This article
examines how these environments functioned as prototypes of the
transient, anti-institutional spaces that she would later create as co-founder
of Rivolta femminile, a historic Italian feminist collective, and examines
a previously obscure moment in Carla Accardi’s career.

Arts, Apr 16, 2020

Metaphor to Métier: Kerry Tribe's Aphasia Poetry Club and the Discourse of Disability in Contempo... more Metaphor to Métier: Kerry Tribe's Aphasia Poetry Club and the Discourse of Disability in Contemporary Art" explores a 2015 video work by Los Angeles-based artist Kerry Tribe. Tribe's "The Aphasia Poetry Club" embodies a shift in contemporary artistic discourse around concepts of physical and cognitive disability. Created by a neurotypical artist, the work uses the medium of the moving image to interpret the experience of aphasia, a neurocognitive language disorder frequently associated with traumatic brain injury. Three distinct visual idioms capture the particular neurological profiles and linguistic patterns of Tribe's chosen participants. Tribe's representation of people living with aphasia disrupts ableist conceits about the human capacity for memory and language. Rather than stigmatizing individual impairments, the work is indicative of a new aesthetic arising from disability experience. The article argues that disability no longer functions in the contemporary art world as a political or spiritual metaphor, but rather has become a site of formal invention and conceptual research.

Cahiers d'études italiennes, Jun 30, 2013

Les contributions présentes dans cet ouvrage rendent compte du passage, qui a eu lieu dans la pér... more Les contributions présentes dans cet ouvrage rendent compte du passage, qui a eu lieu dans la période 1970-2010, du féminisme historique vers une approche gender-oriented dans l’épistémologie et la culture italienne. Les chercheurs qui ont contribué à ce volume sont des spécialistes de plusieurs branches des sciences humaines et sociales, et ils ont donné vie à un ouvrage ainsi structuré : 1 - Théories. Les textes de Di Cori, Setti, Pinzuti et Mirabella relatent du passage épistémologique et de paradigmes entre le féminisme et le gender du point de vue de la situation dans l’université, dans les revues militantes, dans le secteur disciplinaire des études italiennes et dans la philosophie de l'art. 2 - Sociétés, cultures, représentations. Les articles de Garbagnoli et Beaulieu sont centrés sur l’histoire législative et politique italienne (présence des femmes, unions civiles). Ceux de Sensini, Bagini, D’Amora e Cozzi étudient la publicité de mode, la chanson, le théâtre et l’art ...

This fascinating publication sheds light on a medium that combines the qualities of drawing with ... more This fascinating publication sheds light on a medium that combines the qualities of drawing with those of sculpture, printmaking, and painting, and is the first to focus exclusively on the art technique known as frottage, derived from the French word frotter, meaning "to rub." Over 100 pieces, ranging from contemporary conceptual works to rubbings recording tombs and inscriptions, are assembled and sumptuously reproduced in color. More than 50 artists--including the famous, like Max Ernst, inventor of the term "frottage," and the relatively unknown--are presented. Four thematic sections explore different aspects of frottage: its roots in Surrealism and the practice of automatic drawing; the notion of trace, of either a place or an idea left behind in a rubbing; the "apparitions" or ghostlike attributes that can appear on the surface of an artwork; and the associations between rubbings, death, and memory.

Arts, 2020

Metaphor to Métier: Kerry Tribe's Aphasia Poetry Club and the Discourse of Disability in Contempo... more Metaphor to Métier: Kerry Tribe's Aphasia Poetry Club and the Discourse of Disability in Contemporary Art" explores a 2015 video work by Los Angeles-based artist Kerry Tribe. Tribe's "The Aphasia Poetry Club" embodies a shift in contemporary artistic discourse around concepts of physical and cognitive disability. Created by a neurotypical artist, the work uses the medium of the moving image to interpret the experience of aphasia, a neurocognitive language disorder frequently associated with traumatic brain injury. Three distinct visual idioms capture the particular neurological profiles and linguistic patterns of Tribe's chosen participants. Tribe's representation of people living with aphasia disrupts ableist conceits about the human capacity for memory and language. Rather than stigmatizing individual impairments, the work is indicative of a new aesthetic arising from disability experience. The article argues that disability no longer functions in the contemporary art world as a political or spiritual metaphor, but rather has become a site of formal invention and conceptual research.

Cahiers d’études italiennes, 2013

Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory, 2011

‘‘Spaces of self-consciousness’’ examines three environments created by the Italian artist Carla... more ‘‘Spaces of self-consciousness’’ examines three environments created by the
Italian artist Carla Accardi in light of an emerging feminist politics.
Though better known as a painter, Accardi created these three-dimensional
works during an era of political and social upheaval in which her own
commitment to the Italian feminist movement began to take shape.
Her environments were deeply imbricated both with her own experience
of autocoscienza, or consciousness-raising, as well as with radical design
proposals that rejected the current state of civilization. This article
examines how these environments functioned as prototypes of the
transient, anti-institutional spaces that she would later create as co-founder
of Rivolta femminile, a historic Italian feminist collective, and examines
a previously obscure moment in Carla Accardi’s career.