The Programme

talk H 10:00 online

Bodies in visual arts

From representation to erasure

with Maria Nadotti

When we talk about the representation of bodies in visual arts, those bodies almost always belong to women. Why is the artistic body feminine? 
While analysing the lives and works of different artists - Frida Kahlo, Käthe Kollwitz, Louise Bourgeois, Ceija Stojka, Mona Hatoum, and many others - critic and scholar Maria Nadotti tells the story of bodies who have tried to define themselves.

Duration: 1h

supported by Erasmus Mundus in Culture Letterarie Europee, Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna
talk H 11:30 online

New Forms of beauty

Two generations of cartoonists on drawing bodies

with Alice Socal, Anke Feuchtenberger

chair Emilio Varrà, Giordana Piccinini

Two cartoonists, each representing a different generation and a different way of making comics - one explicitly political, one deeply intimate - reflect on comics as a language capable of giving shape to things that do not have one: love, loss, the passing of time.

Duration: 1h

supported by Erasmus Mundus in Culture Letterarie Europee, Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna, Goethe-Institut Italia, MalEdizioni
talk H 12:30 online

Against borders

Bodies and space in contemporary comics

with Alex Bodea, Max Baitinger, Émilie Gleason

chair Ilaria Tontardini

The characters invented by Alex Bodea, Max Baitinger and Émilie Gleason share a certain discomfort in their relationship with space. After all, space is both a source of possibility and frustration in comics: it allows movement, but at the same time it creates limitations to it. They discuss the meaning of borders in comics with visual arts scholar Ilaria Tontardini.

Duration: 1h

supported by Erasmus Mundus in Culture Letterarie Europee, Nuovi Mecenati – Fondazione franco-italiana di sostegno alla creazione contemporanea, Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna, Goethe-Institut Italia
in partnership with BeccoGiallo, Canicola
talk H 15:30 online

Becoming

with Claudia Durastanti

Becoming is the verb of science-fiction: a literary genre capable of describing human bodies through a "naturalcultural" framework, to use the word invented by Donna Haraway. Starting from her experience as a reader and translator, Claudia Durastanti examines several novels and their female characters to discuss the new visions of science-fiction. 

Duration: 30m

supported by Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna
talk H 16:30 online

Bodies on the edge

Visions of the future, between nature and technology

with Ana Galvañ, Linnea Sterte

chair Claudia Durastanti

The cold digital interiors described by Ana Galvañ in Press Enter to Continue (Fantagraphics) and the dizzying biological regeneration depicted by Linnea Sterte in Stages of Rot (Peow!) are two complementary ways to imagine our future. They discuss their visions with Claudia Durastanti, writer and translator of feminist philosopher Donna Haraway.

Duration: 1h

supported by Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna
talk H 18:00 online

Born This Way

Comics journaling as transformation

with Nicoz Balboa

chair Alessio Trabacchini

In Nicoz's art, journaling and autobiography become a frantic, passionate and ironic reflection on identity, relationships, and the joy and struggles of human existence. Everything in their work - illustrations, pyrographs, journals or even tattoos - is part of an uninterrupted journey in which everyday life and creative practice become a unique object. 

Duration: 1h

in partnership with in collaborazione con Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna, Oblomov Edizioni, Gender Bender