“TRAS_FORM_A(C)TION”

Concept and organization

LAURA BIANCHINI, MICHELANGELO LUPONE, MARIA GIOVANNA MUSSO in collaboration with Università di Roma “La Sapienza” – Dipartimento di Sociologia e Comunicazione e Facoltà di Sociologia

The Symposium is non-conventional and proposes to develop the themes relative to the relationship between Art and Science from various theoretic- disciplinary points of view, focalizing the elements of transformation.

Theoretic contributions will be accompanied by artistic representations (music, video, theatre) at the Goethe-Institut Auditorium, which during the two days will be transformed as required. The Symposium is divided into three thematic sections, derived from the semantic areas contained in the word “tras_form_azione”. The conceptual and representational development of the Symposium has been devised as an authentic musical score in which each element is related to the others and each speaker contributes, even if as soloist, to the realization of the overall proceedings.

TRAS_

The first session is dedicated to the conceptual, physical and territorial
transmigrations which contribute to the reciprocal fertilization of art and
science.

The transposition of codes, the diaspora of identities, the crossing of frontiers and the concept of limit are some of the themes that will be discussed in the light of the thematic and disciplinary crossovers which constitute the basic features of complex thought.

MICHAEL KAHN-ACKERMANN director Goethe-Institut Rom

MARIO MORCELLINI director Department of Sociology and Communication Università “La Sapienza”

LUCIANO BENADUSI director Faculty of Sociology Università “La Sapienza”

MICHELANGELO LUPONE artistic director Centro Ricerche Musicali - CRM, Roma

DERRICK DE KERCKHOVE sociologist, director of Mc-Luhan Institute, Toronto

VIDEO

BERTRAM MÜLLER psychologist

FRIEDEMANN MALSCH art historian

FRANCO CASSANO sociologist

NASSIM NICHOLAS TALEB mathematical social scientist

_FORM_

The second session of the conference centres on an ample reflection on
the concept of form. Form intended as ambit, model or intelligible principle
created and maintained in the domain of time and/or space.

The contributions envisaged in the architectonic, theatrical, musical and
sociological areas will be developed with regard to the aesthetic forms,
as well as to those of performance, narration and communication.

ELMAR ZORN, literature and art historian

NICOLETTA SALA physicist, Accademia di Architettura Università
della Svizzera Italiana

YANN ORLAREY  composer, scientific director Grame, Lyon

FREDDY PAUL GRÜNERT artist

VINCENT PUIG director Marketing and Publications Ircam

HANS H. DIEBNER physicist, director Institute for Basic Research, ZKM Karlsruhe

_A(C)TION

As the suffix implies, the third session will deal with the concept of action,
intended as producing effects on matter, on sound, on bodies and on
words. The contributions foreseen in the areas of anthropology, neurology,
philosophy and art will explore the process, method or criteria underlying
interaction, feedback and information.

Contributions

ALBERTO ABRUZZESE sociologist

CLAUDIO DELL’ANNA neurologo Rome American Hospital, neurologist, researcher in neurobiological
complexity, neuro-modulation and neuronal therapies New York
Academy of Sciences

FRANCO LA CECLA anthropologist

XAVIER LE ROY / choreographer, biologist Product of Circumstances **

Representations

texts JOSÉ SANCHIS SINISTERRA, FRANZ KAFKA, JULIO CORTÁZAR

CRM music selections videoclip

FREDDY PAUL GRÜNERT

Guide figure  MARIA GIOVANNA MUSSO

performers PATRIZIA ROMEO, LUISA MERLONI, LUCA BONDIOLI

light design CORRADO REA

staging EMANUELA MENTUCCIA

direction and texts adaptationesti MANUELA CHERUBINI

Photo: M. Carroccia