Angela Marzullo's 'Homeschooling' Blends Motherhood and Feminist Art

Angela Marzullo's book 'Homeschooling' documents eight videos made with her daughters from 2005 to 2015, merging private motherhood with feminist artistic research. The volume includes critical texts by Anna Cestelli Guidi and Francesco Ventrella, video stills, and excerpts from radical pedagogical and feminist sources. Each video challenges patriarchal culture: 'Performing' (2005) reenacts 1970s feminist actions; 'Program for a Proletarian Children’s Theatre' (2006) adapts Walter Benjamin's 1928 text; 'Little Padagogical Treatise' (2008) and 'Concettina' (2010) reinterpret Pasolini's essays; 'Taranta' (2009) combines texts by Deleuze, Guattari, and others; 'The Crisis in Education' (2011) draws on Hannah Arendt; 'Education for Autonomy' (2015) references Adorno; and 'Let’s spit on Hegel' (2015) compiles Carla Lonzi's writings. The videos trace the daughters' growth from childhood to adolescence, with 'Concettina' feminizing Pasolini's 'Gennariello'. Marzullo asserts gender art enables subjective and collective action, quoting 'Let’s spit on Hegel': 'Whoever escapes the slave-master dialectic gains awareness, enters the world of the Unexpected Subject... and begins the journey.' Published by NERO, Rome, 2016, 232 pages, €15.