Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Unstable Geographies

Venue: ICI Berlin, Christinenstraße 18–19, 10119 Berlin

Organized by Chiara Caradonna, Fabien Vitali, Federica Di Blasio, Manuele Gragnolati, Christoph Holzhey, Claudia Peppel

Research project(s): Relational Inhabiting

Participation in the panel discussion Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Unstable Geographies at ICI Berlin

Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922–1975) was a writer and filmmaker deeply rooted in European culture, as well as a public intellectual who moved between different traditions, identities, and languages. Fascinated by peripheries, be it within Italy (in the rural Friuli, the Roman borgate, or Naples) or the Global South (in East Africa, the Middle East, and India), he looked for possible alternatives to the hegemony of western neocapitalism and consumerism. Pasolini’s poetic gaze probed not only different geographies but also disparate temporalities, drawing provocative analogies, and zooming in and out in the constant attempt to unhinge coordinates, hierarchies, and logics. Fifty years after Pasolini’s death, this event explores his multi-scalar aesthetics, its political relevance, as well as its invitation to return the gaze.

Chiara Caradonna is research fellow with the project Relational Inhabiting. Towards a Fisherman Ontology in modern Italian Art, Literature and Film.