"Movimento Studentesco and Pier Paolo Pasolini: A Misunderstanding", a lecture by Franco Berardi.
The Office for Contemporary Art Norway (OCA), is the commissioner of Norway’s representation at the 54th Biennale di Venezia and in this occasion announces Berardi's lecture which is a part of the lecture series ‘The State of Things’.
About The 'Movimento Studentesco' and Pier Paolo Pasolini: A Misunderstanding’
In 1968 the relation between Pier Paolo Pasolini and the Student Movement in Italy was a troubled one. In the midst of the controversy, Pasolini was accused by the students of being a populist representative of a backward culture, nostalgic of a legendary pre-modern time. This paper will argue that, from today's perspective, things seem different, and Pasolini can be understood not to have been looking to the past but to the distant future that is now our present: an age characterised by barbarianism and of ignorant aggressiveness. Today, in the age of the televisual and financial dictatorship, reading Pasolini is a way to retrace the genesis of Italy's present.
About Franco Berardi
Franco Berardi (b.1949, Bologna, Italy) founded the magazine A/traverso (1975–81) and was part of the staff of Radio Alice (1976–78). After being involved in the political movement of Autonomia in Italy during the 1970s, Berardi fled to Paris, where he worked with philosopher and psychoanalyst Félix Guattari in the field of schizoanalysis during the 1980s. He currently teaches social history of the media at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera in Milan, and is the founder of the European School of Social Imagination (SCEPSI) which was inaugurated in San Marino in May 2011
Where and when:
Thursday, 8 September / 18:00
Laboratorio Occupato Morion, Salizada San Francesco della Vigna, Castello 2842, Venice
