If one were to choose an iconic piece of Futurist painting that best encapsulates the potentialities of interartistic exchange, Luigi Russolo’s La musica would be hard to beat. The painting is part...
(translated by Kate Willman) Before Luchino Visconti’s film Bellissima, before directing the actors on the set, shooting, editing and cutting for censorship, all of which took place between June and December 1951,...
My launch of Futurist Women: Florence, Futurism and the New Sciences (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015 – 2016) was held in Senate House, London, on 7 June 2016, with Katia Pizzi as chair and...
“Le storie sono sempre convergenze di diverse nature” (“Stories are always convergences of different natures”), stated Aldo Nove illustrating the idea behind Fabio Vacchi’s opera Lo Specchio Magico (Urban Art Dance Opera),...
Memory is continuously shaped in the present, and increasingly so through the use of new media. Indeed, the proliferation of new media technologies, products and aesthetics is inextricably linked to changing ways...
There is a famed and frequently quoted passage in Epic and Novel in which the Russian critic, Mikhail Bakhtin, uses the terms «novel-ise» and «novel-isation» in order to refer to the overpowering...
Throughout his career, Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975) experimented across a variety of artistic media, including poetry, fiction, cinema, drama, and painting. Yet it is in his early cinema – the so-called “national-popular...
In the opening article of the architectural magazine Quadrante, edited by the writer Massimo Bontempelli and the art critic, curator and collector Pier Maria Bardi and published in Milan between 1933 and...
Autofiction – blurring the lines between an author’s real-life experiences and invention – is an example of a frequently intermedial and interartistic practice that has particularly flourished in recent years. It has...
In the last few weeks, I’ve seen some films. Some on the television and computer. Others on the big screen, in different cinemas, in different cities. One afternoon, in a seat near...