Performative Thinking in Humanities

Abstract

From Music to Film

The magic flute in the Adaptation by Gianini and Luzzati

Alessandro Decadi

Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata

Among the most represented works by Mozart, The Magic Flute certainly recurs, of it we know adaptations, scenographic reworkings, cinematographic works like that of Bergman but the one we want to analyze here is related to the prestigious italian adaptation, in the form of a cartoon, which leave us Giulio Gianini and Emanuele Luzzati. This adaptation, which is intended for a different audience, that of children, is not only the result of a work of reworking the libretto material and cuts to the original music, it is something more: it is a work of art. When we define this adaptation as a work of art, we certainly refer to the direction of Gianini, but above all to the great work of making images by the great Luzzati. He succeeds with great skill in reworking the images, using different artistic forms, from decoupage to watercolor but above all in rendering the positive or negative character they assume in the original work through the colors of the characters. The only part in flesh and blood is that of the actor who plays Papageno, the narrator of the story, the rest is pure animation. The question we try to answer through this work is not only related to the pictorial influences in the animated work but also and above all the one that leads us to ask what happens to the Masonic meaning of the work. It is Papageno himself who tells us that 'his vision' is simpler; clearly a symbolic meaning is not suitable for children, but something remains: it remains in the three-dimensionality of the images, in the recurrence of the number three and finally in the symbols hidden among the images presented.

Mozart, Giulio Gianini, Emanuele Luzzati, The magic flute, Cinema

A Combination of Poetics and Aesthetics in Audiovisual Media

for Effective Scientific Communication

Reflections on a Search for an Innovative Mode of Expression

for Documentary Short Films of Technical-Scientific Dissemination

Marina Iorio
Istituto di Scienze Marine

Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (ISMAR-CNR)

Sergio Scoppetta

Università degli Studi di Napoli Suor Orsola Benincasa

Innovative technological results, obtained in a context of green energy resources exploitation, are proposed through a captivating language, such as a short documentary developed in a poetic, participatory and performative mode (i.e. with interaction between art images, plots, actors in action, interviews). The essay is the reasoned account of the docufilm: The Grand Tour of the 21st century. Naples between art and technology.

Non fiction film, Tecnology, Research, Dissemination, Geothermal Energy 

On the Paradox of Care

About the Short Movie Emma

Andrea Bocchetti
Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II

The making of the short film Emma (2020) arose from reflection on the meaning of the concept of care. This brief communication attempts to express how this reflection has declined artistically, i.e. without trying to make a definition of this concept, but by putting it to the test through a paradoxical experience, that of Dominique Cottrez (an infanticide), in which love and death are tragically linked. 

Emma, Care, Paradox, Dominique Cottrez, Infanticide

Tempus fugit

Five Fleeting Exhortations to the Listener

melologue for two reciting voices and percussions

Rosario Diana
Istituto per la Storia del Pensiero Filosofico e Scientifico Moderno

Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (ISMAR-CNR)

A score. A brief, aphoristic reflection on the flow of time in a performative guise entrusted to 5 haiku from the Japanese literary tradition, dating back to the 13th and 17th centuries, and to the sounds of percussion. A look in the form of an exhortation to the listener on the sense of duration, of the passing of life reflected in the succession of seasons and in the evolution of nature.

Subjective Time, Duration, Life, Old Age, Seasons

Metamorphoriázūsai

Plant mimicry and transduction

Introductive Essay 

The inhabited plant and the celestial onager

Aesthetic Fairy Tale

Lorena Grigoletto

Accademia di Belle Arti di Napoli

Collège International de Philosophie

The article aims to inaugurate a series of reflections and transcoding operations that investigate the relationship between philosophy and fairy tale through the writing of «aesthetic fairy tales». Specifically, it presents some analyses on the creative process, aesthetics, and semiotics of fairy tales, focusing, in particular, on what I define as an ontological-pronominal question and proposing a work of transcoding between the perceptual sphere of the plant world and the human world. In this perspective, thanks to studies in the field of plant physiology and research on the mimicry of the Boquila trifoliolata species, we intend to rescue the figure of the plant from a paradigm that places it at the lowest rung of the «pyramid of the living» in order to then metaphorically probe, through it, the mimetic status of human relations, contribute to the debate on empathies and promote the idea of a «plastic subjectivity».  The aesthetic fairy tale that follows the article is in fact intended to metaphorically explore the mimetic process between two young plants. 

Mimicry, Metamorphosis, Plant, Transduction, Aesthetic Fairy Tale