2013 Programme
EVENT #37
Alessandro Bergonzoni
Stop the geniuscide!
To inspire: to inhale, exhale, expiate, expire, then aspire to re-inspiring and being re-inspired. After which, by way of one’s imagination and creation, one becomes sudden heat, fervor, prophecy: the great extroversion that makes us something else, something different, an energy that devastates the occult proportion all the way to becoming, not only doing, all the way to conscious and unconscious art, to transcendence which explodes thanks to genius and makes it impossible to remain short, or small, or modest, or unborn. The suddenness bursts out, speaks, shake, sculpts; awareness of being blood and vein at the same time, inclination to propulsion, thinking, writing and speaking in a chain, but one that does not bind, at most it joins—does not constrain, but rather broadens. Comedian Alessandro Bergonzoni’s comeback to the Festival della Mente after ten years—a hilarious dialogue with the audience on creativity.
https://www.festivaldellamente.it/it/live-streaming-alessandro-barbero/is an author and actor. Among the things he has written for the stage: Madornale 33, Anghingù, La cucina nel frattempo, Le balene restino sedute, Non è morto né flic né floc. He contributes to il Venerdì di Repubblica. His books include: Le balene restino sedute (Mondadori, 1989); È già mercoledÏ e io no (Mondadori, 1994); Il grande Fermo e i suoi piccoli Andirivieni (Garzanti, 1996); Opplero. Storia di un salto (Garzanti, 2003); Non ardo dal desiderio di diventare uomo finché posso essere anche donna bambino animale o cosa (Bompiani, 2005); Bastasse grondare (Scheiwiller, 2009); is about to be published L’amorte, his first poetry book (Garzanti, September 2013)
EVENT #18
Stefano Bartezzaghi, Massimo Recalcati
To inherit or to be creative? Art in the time of disoriented generations