Annalisa Pellino • La voce in transizione • Book Launch
21.02.2024, h 18.30
with
Annalisa Pellino, Ph.D, post-doctoral research fellow, Università IULM, Milano
Vincenzo Estremo, Head of Research PhD program in Artistic Practice, NABA Milano
On Wednesday, February 21, 2024, at 6:30 PM, Careof hosts a conversation between Annalisa Pellino and Vincenzo Estremo on the occasion of the presentation of the book “La voce in transizione”, dedicated to the filmed voice.
In the volume (Mimesis, 2023), Annalisa Pellino analyzes the phoné as a performative instance, an aesthetic and political gesture at the center of processes of subjectivation and (dis)identification. Focusing on the use and importance of voice in cinematic artistic practices, the author considers it as a possible drift for cinema—an expanded, out-of-itself cinema that migrates and relocates within contemporary art. She interrogates it through the lens of cinematic practices and theories, particularly those that recognize the importance of sound and voice as an undisciplined extension of the moving body. Above all, she asks how to rethink the relationship between practices of listening and those of viewing in light of the ongoing and more recent transformations in cinema. What role has the voice played—and what role does it continue to play—in this process?
“In the transit, or rather, in the transition, the phoné defies expectations of identification and reconfigures the body and its relationship with the media. In its dissociation from the body and through transition into another form and body—human or not—it embarks on a journey without destination, a migration that lets it wander in a third space between gap and echo where meanings become unstable,” writes Annalisa Pellino.
The event is part of the “Vapore d’Inverno” program by Fabbrica del Vapore.
Annalisa Pellino - biography
Annalisa Pellino holds a PhD in Visual and Media Studies and is a Research Fellow and Assistant Professor at Università IULM di Milano (Department of Communication, Arts and Media). She has been a visiting scholar at the University of California - Irvine, and her research interests concern visual culture, cinema, contemporary artistic practices, and media archaeology, with particular attention to the sonic dimension and the voice. She is the author of “La voce in transizione. Cinema, arte contemporanea e cultura fonovisuale” (Mimesis 2023), and her articles have been published in various books and scientific journals, as well as in the online cultural magazines “Il Tascabile” (Treccani), “Doppiozero,” “Kabul Magazine,” and “FlashArt.” She is part of the editorial board of Cinéma&Cie and is co-founder of AWI - Art Workers Italia.
Vincenzo Estremo - biography
Vincenzo Estremo holds an international Ph.D. in media, cinema, and communication studies from Università di Udine and Kunstuneversität Linz. He currently serves as head of research at NABA for the first Italian PhD in Practice in collaboration with the University of Göteborg. A theorist of moving images, he teaches curatorship of exhibited cinema, aesthetics, and phenomenology. He has collaborated with various museum institutions in Europe, co-directs the editorial series Cinema and Contemporary Art (Mimesis International), and regularly writes for Flash Art Italia and International, Che fare?, and il Foglio. He has published Extended Temporalities. Transient Visions in Museum and Art (Mimesis International 2016), Albert Serra, cinema, arte e performance (Mimesis Edizioni 2018), Teoria del lavoro reputazionale (Milieu Edizioni 2020), and Indistinzione (PS editore 2023).
CREDITS
immage: Evangelia Randou e Ariane Labed in Attenberg (Athina Rachel Tsangari, 2010)