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Marielle Macé ‘s Respirare is a reflection on the irrespirability of our times, on asphyxiation and the need to find a new existential rhythm, based precisely on listening to breathing and everything we need to breathe. A specialist in French literature, Marielle Macé has long been engaged in precise, focused research into contemporary life, its urgencies and aspirations, approached with an interest in both historical and personal memory. Somewhere between essay and fiction, her books use literature as an ally to understand and criticize forms of life, exploring the links between poetry and an anthropology of the everyday that takes an interest in things, environments, common goods, spaces to be defended, plants and animals.
Marielle Macé
Born in Paimboeuf (France) in 1973, Marielle Macé is a researcher and writer.
Research Director at the CNRS and Director of Studies at EHESS (Paris), Marielle Macé is also a guest lecturer in Chicago, New York (NYU) and Berkeley, and was associate author at the Théâtre des Amandiers.
Her books (essays and poems) make use of literature to give thought to and discuss different forms of life – social life, community life, precarious lives and vulnerable landscapes. Her published works include Styles. Critique de nos formes de vie (Styles. A Critique of our Forms of Life – Gallimard, 2016), “Nous” (Us) (ed., Critique, 2017), Sidérer, considérer. Migrants en France (Bewilder, Consider. Migrants in France – Verdier, 2017), “Vivre dans un monde abîmé” (Living in a Damaged World) (ed., Critique, 2019), Nos cabanes (Our Cabins – Verdier, 2019), and Parole et pollution (Words and Pollution – AOC, 2021).
Fabrizio Scrivano
Fabrizio Scrivano is interested in literary and visual culture, aesthetics and critical theory. The concept of environmental change and narratives of animality are currently at the center of his critical interest. He teaches at the University of Perugia, and is a member of the doctoral councils in “Science of the Book and Writing” and “Reading Education”; the scientific committee of the National Center for Autobiographical Research and Studies; and the journal Gentes (Social Sciences and Humanities). He is editor of Agalma (Esthétique et études culturelles). His literary research focuses on the novel, comic strip, fairy tale and fable, as well as writings about the self (autobiographies and diaries). He is passionate about medieval aesthetic culture, often focusing on the 16th and 17th centuries; he believes contemporaneity is an age of verification. His books include:
Oggi il racconto. Come resistere alla banalità dell’informazione (Meltemi); Diario enarrazione (Quodlibet); Calvino e i corpi (Morlacchi).
Sonia Bergamasco
Sonia Bergamasco is an actress and director, musician and poet. She graduated in piano from the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory in Milan. In the theater, she has worked with Antonio Latella, Thomas Ostermeier, Jan Fabre, Thodoros Terzopoulos, Carmelo Bene, Giorgio Strehler, and directed and performed in shows in which the musical experience is more deeply interwoven with the theater. In film and television, she has worked with Liliana Cavani, Bernardo Bertolucci, Giuseppe Bertolucci, Marco Tullio Giordana, Riccardo Milani and Roberta Torre. She has published the poetry collection Il quaderno (La nave di Teseo editore) and the book
Un corpo per tutti. Biografia del mestiere di attrice (Giulio Einaudi editore).
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Wednesday, February 14 From 19:00 to 20:00 Grand Salon Free In Italian With : Marielle Macé, Sonia Bergamasco, Fabrizio Scrivano
In partnership with Contrasto
In partnership with : Contrastobooks
