by Aleksandra Jovicevic
08/11/2022 ore 16,30, Aula F ex Vetreria Sciarra
Ilenia Caleo: Performance, materia, affetti. Una cartografia femminista (Bulzoni, 2021)
How the bodies are political today? The book, Performance, materia, affetti. Una cartografia femminista (Bulzoni, 2021) investigates how much there is a creative power in the bodies that it is not recognized by political theory and how much politics there is in performative practices that are not recognized by theatre studies. At the crossroad of different feminism, which have relocated the body, sexuality, desire at the center of the political and the performing arts that brought other corporealities, multiforms, assembled, posthuman, are creating a new vocabulary for the present. Human and non-human bodies, organic and inorganic, animate and inanimate, matter, ecosystems, political anatomies, queerness, objects and hyperobjects, quantum entanglements, forces and intensities, disidentification, transcorporeity: a series of turbulences that mark the expressive force of bodies and of matter in a non-anthropocentric direction and which are today at the center of the political and theoretical agenda.
Around these nuclei, the contemporary scene composes new aesthetics, questions and dramaturgies, placing itself as an autonomous form of thought. With a neo-materialist feminist approach, a reading of performativity is provided as a theory of action for human and non-human bodies.
Sergio LoGatto, Abitare la battaglia: Critica teatrale e comunità virtuali (Bulzoni, 2022)
The "Internet galaxy" hosts numerous constellations in which reasoning on the performing arts appears alive, but are controversial by an environment open to a massive access of opinions and fragmented gazes. In the general decline of criticism as a profession, the need to regain authority and authority emerges.
The volume analyzes the changing media and its influence on critical thinking, restoring a lively environment, which makes online debate an opportunity for plural vision and memory preservation of a changing theatre.