Interdisciplinary Italy 1900-2015: Art, Music, Text

自20世纪初以来，意大利文化一直被反对传统形式的争论所主导，并呼吁废除艺术之间的界限。意大利最具影响力的艺术运动倾向于多重、可逆、“开放”的结构，这种趋势可以在整个20世纪和21世纪找到。跨学科的发展是由一种渴望从过时的艺术惯例中解脱出来的欲望所驱动的，同时也是出于对文学、音乐和视觉艺术之间根深蒂固的亲缘关系的信念。博纳迪奥和巴特勒等评论家认为，这种跨越边界的行为是理解这一时期创造力的基础。然而，到目前为止，还没有人试图研究这一时期的发展，以评估那些无视既定界限的群体的复杂社会构成，或者探索他们的理论思想对现代意大利文化教学和研究的影响。21世纪的艺术跨学科研究非常零散，没有充分的理论化。除了促进关于艺术跨学科的对话外，该网络还将利用出现的问题来探索与语言和区域研究学科发展有关的问题：20世纪和21世纪意大利文化的跨界对意大利文化在学院研究和教授的方式有何影响？跨学科如何使意大利研究提高其公众参与形象？该项目促进建立数据库、网站、讲习班和小组讨论等工具，使学者和非学者之间的交流更加容易。我们的研究结果引起的政策问题将与SIS进行讨论，更广泛地与学校和大学的语言学科机构（UCML， LLAS， ALL和CILT）进行讨论，并将介绍给美国意大利语研究协会（AAIS），因为我们的研究也将对那里产生影响。该网络将在伦敦大学学院（UCL）、纽约大学（NYU）和罗马（RomaTre）举办三个研讨会，并在2013年的意大利研究学会会议上举办一个小组会议。每个工作坊都致力于一个独立的时期：(1)现代主义，(2)后现代主义和(3)互联网时代。指导小组（布鲁克、穆斯格格、皮埃里）将创建并维护一个网站和一个可搜索的数据库，这是首个此类网站和数据库，汇集了对意大利文化感兴趣的学者、博物馆馆长、音乐学院成员和媒体。该小组还将通过期刊文章和网站传播研究结果。指导委员会将得到一个由学术界内外专家组成的咨询小组的支持。本项目主要关注以下问题：1)原因：现当代交叉学科的根源在哪里？为什么这一时期会发生在意大利？是什么促成了这些发展？科技、艺术环境、期刊、咖啡、印刷、互联网等在交叉受精的发展中处于什么位置？2)变化与发展：一个人能描绘出整个时期的发展吗？在艺术流派和学科之间工作的想法是否会随着时间的推移而改变？3)哲学和意识形态基础：边界的隐喻如何使我们更好地理解跨学科？跨学科告诉了我们什么关于促进、监管、违规的概念？跨越边界与分裂有什么关系？解放和自由的观念是如何适应的？4)政策影响：跨学科如何激发意大利研究乃至更广泛的语言研究、教学和展览组织的新模式？这些问题将由目前在意大利工作的学者、博士和博士后研究人员、博物馆策展人、音乐学院成员和文化从业者组成的网络来解决。

Since the early twentieth century, Italian culture has been dominated by polemics against conventional form and calls for an abolition of boundaries between the arts. Italy's most influential artistic movements favoured multiple, reversible, "open" structures, a trend that can be found throughout the twentieth and twenty-first century. Interdisciplinarity has been driven by a desire for transgression and emancipation from obsolete artistic conventions, but also by a belief in the deep-rooted affinity between literature, music and the visual arts. Critics like Bonaddio and Butler have argued that such border-crossings are fundamental to understanding creativity during this period. Yet, so far, no one has attempted to study the developments across the period to assess the complex social makeup of the groups that defied established boundaries, or to explore the implications of their theoretical ideas for the teaching and study of modern Italian culture. Research on interdisciplinarity in the arts in the 21st century is very fragmented and has not been adequately theorised.In addition to fostering dialogue about interdisciplinarity in the arts, the network will use questions that arise to explore issues relating to the development of the discipline of Languages and Area Studies: what are the implications of border-crossing in 20th and 21st century culture in Italy on the way Italian culture is researched and taught in the academy? How could interdisciplinarity enable Italian Studies to improve its public engagement profile? This project promotes the creation of instruments, such as a database, website, workshops and panel discussion, that will enable easier communication between academics and non-academics. Policy issues arising from our findings will be discussed with the SIS, and more broadly with Language subject bodies for schools and universities (UCML, LLAS, ALL and CILT) and will be introduced to the US Italian Studies associations (AAIS) as our research will have implications there too. The network will run three workshops in London (UCL), New York (NYU), and Rome (RomaTre), and a panel at the Society for Italian Studies conference in 2013. Each of the workshops is dedicated to a separate period: (1) Modernism, (2) Postmodernism and (3) the Internet age. The steering group (Brook, Mussgnug, Pieri) will create and maintain a website and a searchable database, the first of its kind, of academics, museum curators, members of conservatoires and the media with interests in Italian culture. The group will also disseminate results through journal articles and a website. The steering committee will be supported by an advisory panel of experts from within and outside academia. This project focuses on the following questions:1) Causes: Where do the roots of modern and contemporary interdisciplinarity lie? Why has it taken place in Italy during this period and what contributed to these developments? What is the place of technology, artistic milieus, journals, cafés, printing, Internet etc. in the development of cross-fertilisation? 2) Change and development: Can one map developments across the whole period? Does the idea of working between artistic genres and disciplines change over time?3) Philosophical and ideological underpinnings: How do metaphors of borders enable us to understand interdisciplinarity better? What does interdisciplinarity tell us about concepts of facilitating, policing, transgressing? How does the border crossing relate to fragmentation? How do ideas of emancipation and freedom fit in? 4) Policy Implications: how can interdisciplinarity inspire new patterns of research, teaching, and exhibition organisation in Italian Studies and more broadly in Languages? These questions will be addressed by a network that brings together academics, doctoral and post-doctoral researchers, museum curators, members of conservatoires, and cultural practitioners currently working in Italy.