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The workshop Multistable Cityscapes is meant to provide a ground for reciprocal confrontation addressed to all those scholars, theoreticians and artists who are interested in exploring the implications of multistability in relation to cityscapes and urban communities. The workshop aims to promote a reflection on urban spaces around the world bypassing merely historical/historicist approaches, thus endorsing a horizontal, rhizomatous and open perception of cities’ ambivalent relationship with modernity and stressing aspects of confrontation and plurality rather than complaining the loss of any alleged former identity. As multistable figures, cityscapes also take dissimilar, even contradictory and mutually exclusive shapes, which correspond to equally valid or possible descriptions, yet cannot be combined into a single picture – shapes that may have sharp contours but are also liable to transformations and sudden aspect changes. Programme: 10:00 Welcome: Manuele Gragnolati and Fabio Camilletti Session I Chair: Jennifer Burns 10:15 Fabio Camilletti: Mourning and Melancholia. Rome, Pompeii, Paris 11:00 Filippo Trentin: Rethinking the Origin. The Quarrel between Ancients and (post-)Moderns in Contemporary Rome 11:45 Break Session II Chair: Manuele Gragnolati 12:00 Jennifer Burns: Cities and Elsewheres. The Multiple Experience of the Italian City in Works by Migrant Writers 12:45 Silvia Cresti: On Jews and Cities in Italy. Outsiders and Insiders intermingled 13:30 Lunch Break Session III Chair: Christoph Holzhey 15:00 Sandrine Sanos: Nostalgia, Elsewheres, and the Future. Interwar Far-Right Intellectuals’ Fantasies of Paris 15:45 David Kishik: Benjamin in New York 16:30 Bobby Benedicto: ‘Elsewhere’, in Gay Manila 17:15 Break Session IV Chair: Fabio Camilletti 17:45 Pauline Julier and Camille Louis: Reversible Landscapes 18:45 Break 19:00 Simone Brioni: Screening: Aulò (ITA, directed by Simone Brioni, Ermanno Guida, Graziano Chiscuzzu, 40′) Multistable Cityscapes, workshop, ICI Berlin, 8 June 2012 |
