On the occasion of the 20th edition of the Literary Festival, Blue Metropolis, the Italian Cultural Institute of Montreal, is proud to present the Italian authors, Claudia Attimonelli and Vincenzo Susca.
April 26, 2018, 6pm Free Admission
Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Montreal
1200 Av. du Dr Penfield
Conference in Italian
Mischievous selfies, Youporn, Grindr, sexting, online dating, political scenarios overflowing with moods and sexy allusions, obscene performances and red-light mazes, morbid aesthetics adorning the most diverse communications, live cams, gay-for-pay, porn gifs, dickpic, private rooms, dark room, pornhorror, gothic and baroque fetishism, love doll, fucking machine, realcore, erotic lingerie, jockstrap: dissolute and pompous, raw and overexposed, porn swarms triumphant from the web 2.0 to urban scenarios media screens to the interstices of everyday life. What are the origins, genealogy and effects of this convulsive scene? Of what condition announces the coming? What sacrifice and baptize pagan rituals, multiple orgasms and exchanges of this obscene theater without walls? Investigating to its most extreme consequences the intimate link between eroticism and death in our time, the book by Claudia Attimonelli and Vincenzo Susca in the raid glimpse of what they name “pornocultura” the decline of the modern subject and the first wails of a new meat which is now urgently needed to understand form, meaning and ethics.
Claudia Attimonelli (1975) is a researcher in Theories of Language and Science of Signs, teaches Film, photography and television, semiotics of cinema and audiovisual at the University of Bari Aldo Moro. Her researches’ are spread between art, corporeality and media. She collaborates as a curator with galleries and theaters. Recently curated exhibitions: Nous autres by K. Andersen (with V. Susca), The re / quotes by Madame (with V. Susca), Hotel d’Hiver by K. Andersen at the Traffic Gallery, Azusa Itagaki’s Doll House (Fabrica Fluxus). Among her publications: Anatomies baroques. Le coeur et la tête de mort (2015), To be continued. Destinies of the body in television series (with A. D’Ottavio, 2011); Underground Zone. Dandy, punk, beautiful people (with A. Giannone, 2011); Little Miss. The eroticisation body of girls (2009); Techno. Afro-futurist rhythms (2008). She is also the author of the photographic book Le Vergini (with Corpicrudi, 2011).
Vincenzo Susca (1977) is Associate Professor of Sociology of Imagination at the Paul-Valéry University of Montpellier and researcher at Ceaq (Sorbonne). McLuhan Fellow at the University of Toronto, in 2008 he founded, with M. V. Dandrieux, the magazine Les Cahiers européens de l’Imaginaire (CNRS éditions, Paris), of which he is the editorial director. Among his books: Everything is Berlusconi (Milan 2004, Paris 2006); On the borders of the imaginary (Milan 2006, Porto Alegre 2006); Transpolitics (Milan 2008), with D. de Kerckhove; Gioia Tragica (Milan 2010, Paris 2011, Barcelona 2012); Les affinités connectives (Paris 2016, Porto Alegre 2018). Recently, he has curated with C. Attimonelli the exhibitions Le re / citazioni di Madame (2014) and Nous autres by K. Andersen (2015) at the Traffic Gallery in Bergamo. He is the author, with A. Béhar, of the theatrical piece Angelus Novissimus (2014).
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