Nemesis
Cave, Eruptions And Psycho-Fables For Resistance
Will be published approx. on 29. October 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
44 pages
978-1-9193180-4-2 (ISBN)
Description
In 1970s Naples, radical feminist collective Le Nemesiache invented the psycho-fable: a practice of ritual storytelling and performance that summoned myth, the cosmic and the body as tools for political transformation. Named after Nemesis, the goddess of retribution, the group rejected Westernised order, turning instead to the volcanic landscapes of Southern Italy - Vesuvius, the Phlegraean Fields, the Cumaean Cave - as sites of imaginative uprising where geology, archaeology and imagination converge.
In Nemesis: Cave, Eruptions And Psycho-Fables For Resistance, performance-maker, writer and researcher Giulia Damiani draws on more than a decade of conversations with members and her own artistic practice. In dialogue with Le Nemesiache, Damiani reveals the psycho-fable as an eruptive method of collective creativity - porous, ecstatic and rooted in place - and the return of myth as a force for collective futures.
In Nemesis: Cave, Eruptions And Psycho-Fables For Resistance, performance-maker, writer and researcher Giulia Damiani draws on more than a decade of conversations with members and her own artistic practice. In dialogue with Le Nemesiache, Damiani reveals the psycho-fable as an eruptive method of collective creativity - porous, ecstatic and rooted in place - and the return of myth as a force for collective futures.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 160 mm
Width: 111 mm
Thickness: 3 mm
Weight
50 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-9193180-4-2 (9781919318042)
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Giulia Damiani is a performance-maker and researcher based in Amsterdam and London. Her work creates provocative performative situations, often starting from a sound investigation, posing urgent questions about violence, language, and a mythical and ecological territory. Her latest work Heart Brake was shown internationally and at Frascati (Amsterdam) in December 2025. She holds a practice-based PhD from Goldsmiths University for which she wrote about Le Nemesiache's feminist collective and created performances inspired by their work. Her upcoming performance project Apology for Fire started
Co-founded in 1970 by the multidisciplinary and visionary artist and writer Lina Mangiacapre, Le Nemesiache is a collective of feminist and pacifist artists. Their experimental artistic practice is rooted in feminism, mythology and radical imagination.
Co-founded in 1970 by the multidisciplinary and visionary artist and writer Lina Mangiacapre, Le Nemesiache is a collective of feminist and pacifist artists. Their experimental artistic practice is rooted in feminism, mythology and radical imagination.