Forget 1968: Between Autonomia and The Movement of 77
The last session of class returns to Italy, this time focusing on Autonomia, and delved into objects like newspapers and magazines of the various extra-parliamentary groups like the Indiani Metropolitani and Lotta Continua. This week also featured the photography of Paola Agosti and Tano d’Amico
Orso 88 was the address of a squat known as Casa Desiderio in central Rome. It was a hub for the Indiani Metropolitani and youth groups in 1977. When the house was evicted by the police, someone took the wall, which have been preserved as part of illustrator Pablo Echaurren’s papers. Through the notes and posters, one can see into the daily life of a group of people trying to live outside constraints of traditional family life and norms. The sign here, written on the back of a poster, says, when the you start to see the ceiling trip it’s already time to empty the basin under the sink.
Paola Agosti extensively documented the womens’ movement in Rome, from the nursery rhyme like slogans on banners to portraits of the feminists. The two women here are painting a poster for Womens’ Day, March 8 1978. Agosti also photographed in the Womens’ House, an occupied house on Via del Governo Vecchio.