Rewind

Fondazione Antonio Ratti

Over the past 35 years FAR has presented numerous conferences, workshops, seminars and publications inviting thinkers from different fields: contemporary art, textile history, anthropology, literature and more. Our Rewind project aims to spread and share this amazing resource. 
The selected materials, presented on a biweekly basis, range across different times and disciplines, offering a new perspective on themes and ideas that are still relevant today. Looking back, re-hearing, re-learning become strategies to move forward and the archive is activated as a fundamental tool to imagine ourselves in the future.

Episodes

  1. 12/16/2020

    Rewind 013 | Roberto Sanesi | Il segno e la voce

    In the lesson held during the Corso Superiore di Disegno, Roberto Sanesi addresses the ambiguous relationship between sign and voice. If the code-sign - whether it be the stable one of writing or the freer one of the visual arts - marks its support in an immutable way, the voice that emerges is as multiple and different as the individualities to which that voice belongs: the readers of a book, the public of a painting. The whole body of literature, poetry, and art are entangled in the gap between the collective and the individual, between the outlined and the intangible. Starting from his experience as a translator of the great Anglo-Saxon literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, alternating personal reflections with the reading of his own works, Sanesi sketches the contours of this ephemeral body, cornered by the question: what do you translate when you translate? 21.01.1989, Archive Fondazione Antonio Ratti To download the english translation: fondazioneratti.org

    Rewind 013 | Roberto Sanesi | Il segno e la voce

  2. 12/02/2020

    Rewind 012 | Miriam Mafai | Il corpo della donna tra libertà e legge

    "But I wish this era was over" comments Miriam Mafai, invited by Mario Fortunato at the Ratti Lectures, to discuss the issue of control over women's bodies. Starting from the assumption that the principle of habeas corpus "historically applies to everyone except women", Mafai traces a path that goes from the consideration of the female body in revealed religions, and rapes considered as spoils of war to the very ancient practice to establish a legal affiliation for women, whether to their father, husband, brother or even a "curator of the womb". All forms of control, according to anthropologists, can be traced not only to the woman's body itself, but also, and above all, to her reproductive capacity. Mafai therefore critically analyzes the achievements of the twentieth century and the result of a fertile encounter between radical movements and feminist struggles: from the possibility of access to the judiciary, the birth control pill, and the law on abortion. The conclusion, however, can only be bitter: far from being resolved, the question of control over women's bodies is reflected in the issue of the Eluana Englaro case, which was a recent event at the time, involving every phase of the life cycle, including its end. 06.03.2009, Archive Fondazione Antonio Ratti Language: Italian To download the english translation: http://www.fondazioneratti.org/pressKit/92/rewind_012_miriam_mafai

    Rewind 012 | Miriam Mafai | Il corpo della donna tra libertà e legge
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Over the past 35 years FAR has presented numerous conferences, workshops, seminars and publications inviting thinkers from different fields: contemporary art, textile history, anthropology, literature and more. Our Rewind project aims to spread and share this amazing resource. 
The selected materials, presented on a biweekly basis, range across different times and disciplines, offering a new perspective on themes and ideas that are still relevant today. Looking back, re-hearing, re-learning become strategies to move forward and the archive is activated as a fundamental tool to imagine ourselves in the future.

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