2014 Program
Event #4
Philippe Petit
Creativity: the Perfect Crime
Ever since he was a child – much before his epic crossing on a wire stretched between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in 1974 – Philippe Petit has ventured along the little-known confines of a search for knowledge and perfection, which he himself has undertaken as someone who is self-taught. Insight, improvisation, observation, passion are the primary elements that fuel his long and frenetic path of creativity. But also rigour, control, total dedication. For Petit, the invitation to create starting from chaos and rebellion inevitably leads to order, which is indispensable for the definition of any programme. By using real examples, inspired by his very personal creative processes (drawing, demonstrations, audience participation, video screenings. even magic tricks), Petit will invite the spectators to find their own path so that they can enter the doors he opens.
has walked the wire at very high altitudes on more than eighty occasions. Besides being a wire-walker, he is an illusionist, a street artist, a visual artist, an entrepreneur, an orator and a writer. An assiduous guest on TED and at other conferences, he has also authored and illustrated many books, including To Reach the Clouds (2008) – on which is based James Marsh’s Man on Wire, 2009 Oscar for Best Documentary –, Treatise on Wire-Walking (2009) and Creativity (July 2014), Italian editions published by Ponte alle Grazie. He is currently planning two new crossings on Easter Island and at the New York Public Library.
Interpreter: Marina Astrologo.
Event #20
Paolo Cornaglia Ferraris, Marcello Massimini
The Secret of the Consciousness and its Measurement
