14 December 2023 :: 6.00pm :: Estetiche e linguaggi del punk :: Chiostri di San Pietro

CONFERENCE: AESTHETICS AND LANGUAGES OF PUNK. PRESENTATION OF BOOK NAKED PUNK PUBLISHED BY RIZOSFERA, EDITED BY PAOLO DAVOLI AND GABRIELE FANTUZZI.

Macchine Sensibili organizes with Fondazione Palazzo Magnani the day “Aesthetics and Languages of Punk. Presentation of the book Naked Punk” on Dec. 14, 2023 at 6:00 p.m. at Chiostri di San Pietro, Sala delle Colonne, as part of the exhibition Felicitazioni, CCCP 1984 – 2024.

Speakers will include Federico Montanari, Unimore lecturer and discussant, Paolo Davoli and Gabriele Fantuzzi, editors of the volume Naked Punk, Giovanni Catellani, author of the book ‘Philosophy of the Sex Pistols’ and curator of the afterword to ‘Naked Punk’.

Aesthetics and Languages of Punk as the lecture revolves around the artistic genealogy of the primordial punk movement, which was born in the second half of the 1970s in New York and then exploded in London a few years later. Plurality is a must when talking about punk because from the outset the movement connotes itself as a ‘meta-movement‘ capable of absorbing, while negating them, both the artistic movements that temporally preceded it and the avant-garde movements of the early twentieth century.

Since its emergence within youth pop culture, punk has copied, reworked, and then spit out forms, contents, and functions of a certain kind of art, from the French Maledictism of the late nineteenth century onward, which combined art and styles of esistence.