Violence and Power
FIT Festival and LuganoInscena in collaboration with LAC edu opened, on October 2, 2019, the cycle of five in-depth talks featuring operators in the cultural sector in dialogue with the public.
These precious opportunities of encounter, curated by university professors and theatre critics, have continued during the 2019/2020 Season of LuganoInscena.
curators
Carmelo Rifici, Paola Tripoli
lecturers
Christian Raimo, Renato Palazzi, Attilio Scarpellini
coordination
Maddalena Giovannelli, Francesca Serrazanetti
We live in a reality that disorients, that rushes, that increasingly produces violence and that responds to the dynamics of power.
How can we survive this advance? What has triggered it? Fear? The economic crisis?
These are difficult questions to answer. Power today – as Carmelo Rifici says – can use such sophisticated technological systems that fear of Ariosto’s evil Cimosco’s arquebus now seems like a children’s fairy tale, but one feels sincere nostalgia for it.
In an interview, Jens Hillje, an artist and scholar, now co-director of the Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin ( Leone d’oro alla carriera at the 2019 Venice Theatre Biennale) spoke of Politik der Blicke, or “politics of the gaze”: gaze, perspective, view, how you look at people, how you look at certain themes. Hillje – how people look at each other defines the way society is built. Changing the way they think, even if only slightly, is the basis of political thinking -.
Starting from these reflections, which are reflected in the shows of the FIT, and really all year round in the LAC theatre season, in this meeting, several guests (including Christian Raimo, Italian writer and journalist, Renato Palazzi, theatre critic for Il Sole 24 Ore, Attilio Scarpellini, journalist, professor and theatre critic) will investigate a place and a shared time called “theatre” and the increasingly close and necessary relationship between Theatre, Reality, Power and Violence.
The place in which to practice, together with the audience, the Politik der blicke.
