2011 Programme
Evento n.30
Luca Scarlini
The power of images, the images of power
After his past talks on music and on books, Luca Scarlini makes his comeback in Sarzana with a lecture on the world of images and the power they have on people. Pictures, movies, paintings—be they famous or obscure—will accompany him in this investigation of the ways in which power has used images to its advantage, or censured them out of fear. Scarlini will discuss a broad range of episodes, from the iconoclasm in Constantinople under Leon II to Hitler’s regime to that of Cambodia’s Pol Pot, the head of the Khmer Rouge to tried to erase all images from previous eras. He will also comment on some of the allegedly miraculous images that some devote themselves to for help and rescue: a practice which is a sold as the world and has always been connected, for Christians, to the devotion to Saint Luke, the mystical painter of the divine.
the playwright and essayist, and enjoys telling stories on stage, often together with singers, actors and other artists. Scarlini teaches at Milan’s European Design Institute and elsewhere in Italy and abroad. He has taken part in many festivals in Italy and in other countries. He regularly contributes to Channel 3 of Italian public radio, to Alias and L’indice dei Libri del mese. His books include La musa inquietante. Il computer e l’immaginario contemporaneo (Cortina, 2001); Equivoci e miraggi. Pratiche d’autobiografia oggi (Rizzoli, 2003); D’Annunzio a Little Italy. Le avventure del Vate nel mondo dell’emigrazione (Donzelli, 2008); Lustrini per il regno dei cieli. Ritratti di evirati cantori (Bollati Boringhieri, 2008); Sacre sfilate. Alta moda in Vaticano, da Pio X a Benedetto XVI (Guanda, 2010); Ladri di immagini (Edizioni Ambiente, 2010); Un paese in ginocchio (Guanda, 2011); Ritratti dimenticati. Profili di scrittori e artisti a Firenze dal mondo (Mauro Pagliai Editore, 2011); Il Natale dei Magi (Einaudi, 2011); La sindrome di Michael Jackson (Bompiani, 2011); Il Caravaggio rubato. Mito e cronaca di un furto (Sellerio, 2012).
Evento n.6
Zygmunt Bauman
Reflections on the notions of community and network, on social networks and Facebook
Evento n.14
Gian Carlo Calza
Different, eccentric, extraordinary: aesthetics and creativity between Asia and the West
Evento n.26
Franco Borgogno
In other people’s hearts and minds. A psychoanalyst between tradition and creativity
Evento n.37
Sonia Bergamasco, Fabrizio Gifuni
A quiet sunny day. Attilio Bertolucci and Pier Paolo Pasolini, a friendship in verse
