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2016 Programme

Event #32

Marco Belpoliti

The poetry of space. Words and drawings on that place we call home

A voyage in images and ideas through a space that is both so intimate and so collective – our homes. Through a series of live drawings and words pronounced at the same time, Marco Belpoliti explains and describes the idea of home as a shell, guiding us to discover the spaces that are beneath our eyes every day: our kitchens and bedrooms and dinettes and living rooms, our stairways and mezzanines. Starting from the pages written by Gaston Bachelard, an epistemologist and poet, and reviewing a number of texts by 20^th century and contemporary writers (such as My home by Primo Levi), we will take an up-close look at drawers, closets, beds and benches, anything round, anything with corners. Discovering that the home is a place of interiority but also of exteriority.

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Marco Belpoliti an essayist and writer, teaches at the University of Bergamo. His works include: Il corpo del capo (2009); Pasolini in salsa piccante (2010); La canottiera di Bossi (2012); L’età dell’estremismo (2014), Primo Levi di fronte e di profilo (2015) published by Guanda. He writes for la Repubblica and l’Espresso; he co-directs the series «Riga» for Marcos y Marcos with E. Grazioli. With Stefano Chiodi he is coordinator of the online magazine and publishing house Doppiozero. Ahis essay La strategia della farfalla (Guanda) came out in June.

2016 Programme

Event #32

Marco Belpoliti

The poetry of space. Words and drawings on that place we call home

An idea of public space

That place called “home”

The space of words: Helen and Odysseus

The last day of summer

The birth of space (and time)

The birth of space (and time)

The space of war. The First Italian War of Independence

Immunity and the brain: a dialogue between two chief systems. From memory to vaccines.

New males: as teenagers, in couples, as fathers

Tv series: a newly emerged continent

Across the American deserts: a voyage through 20th century collective imagination

What do algorithms think of?

That place is gone

The space of rebellion

Other maps, other worlds. Representations of space

The analyst at the movies: thinking by images

From the stars to Life: one, one hundred, one thousand Earths

Architectural space in the past, the present, the future

Families confined and without borders

The best ideas of our lives. Make room for innovation (the real kind)

The space of absence: Patroclus and Andromache

On the other side of the sea

Play it again

The space of war. The second Italian War of Independence

School is an idea of the world

Asperger Talk Show

Let’s make space for stupidity

Voyages through spaces real and imagined

Is there space for us all? The future of European migrations

When painters left their studios to paint en plein air

The memory of space. The rubble of climate and rubbish in our homes

Graffiti, tags and murals: when art extends to walls

The poetry of space. Words and drawings on that place we call home

The river is never wrong

Mirror neurons: anatomy of a revolutionary discovery

The boundaries of the soul and of the world