Workshop_30/The immobilizing charm of power and the indirect gaze

Led by Piero Gilardi and Cesare Pietroiusti
February 8, 9
Perseus managed to overcome the Medusa by approaching her, walking backwards and observing his lethal gaze indirectly through her mirroring shield. This is the allegorical strategy, the symbolic module rooted in our collective unconscious, which was discussed to define performative and aesthetic tools and methods useful to face the immobilizing fascination of the seductions of the show, like those of neoliberalism that today’s “molecular” political movements they try to fight. The “minimum unit of pleasure” of the breath, identified among the possible gift actions, was the medium chosen for collective performances carried out inside and outside the PAV.

 

The immobilizing charm of power and the indirect gaze
Colors, 3’34”, PAV / Activities and Educational Training