Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Unstable Geographies

Teilnahme am Panel Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Unstable Geographies im 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 ist Gastwissenschaftlerin mit dem Projekt Leben in Relation. Fischergemeinschaften und die Transformation der Küste in der italienischen Kultur der Moderne.