Sara Guidi

About Sara’s Research:

This practice research project explores personal and collective memory within communities. Second-wave feminism brought unprecedented political changes to Italian society. The past decade has seen a scholarly re-evaluation of Italian feminism; however, distinctive developments in the South of Italy have received less attention, due to deeply rooted historical prejudices against the South and the need for hybrid and creative approaches that academia has often failed to adopt.

This research explores the crucial contribution of Southern movements to Italian feminism, centring their unique understanding of the relationship between creative practices, the body, and the landscape.
Through an interdisciplinary methodology that intersects gender studies, archival research, performance studies, and ecocritical perspectives, this study explores the semiotics of memory and desire, focusing on the consciousness-raising practices developed by some groups in Southern Italy.

This research also aims to re-evaluate these groups’ practices by bringing them into conversation with today’s transfeminist practices and ecocritical perspectives. Through art-based methodologies and creative processes (e.g. workshops), this practice-based research will explore personal and collective memory within communities, through engagement with the more-than-human.