{"id":4726,"date":"2016-07-09T22:33:31","date_gmt":"2016-07-09T20:33:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.videosoundart.com\/?p=4726"},"modified":"2022-11-07T23:15:10","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T22:15:10","slug":"theme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/videosoundart.com\/en\/theme\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Call 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">TA EROTIKA<br>Hidden doors<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Canto il Corpo Elettrico - I Sing the Body Electric\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/182167793?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption>This video was made as an hommage for the VI edition (2016) of the VIDEO SOUND ART FESTIVAL by 3 students of the second year of the Industrial Cinema and Advertising course of the National Film School.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br><em>\u201cThere is a question that all lovers ask each other, and in it the erotic mystery is epitomized: Who are you?<br>A question without an answer\u2026 The senses are and are not of this world.<br>By means of them, poetry traces a bridge between seeing and believing.<br>By that bridge, imagination is embodied and bodies turn into images.\u201d<\/em><br>(Octavio Paz, The double flame)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Ta erotika, the title of the sixth open call of Videosoundart, is an invitation to investigate the enigmatic and disturbing dimension of the \u201cthings of love\u201d to which eroticism, love and sexuality, interwoven, belong. The Greek expression, stolen from Plato\u2019s Symposium, alludes to the globality of this semantic field and the relationship between reason and folly which it puts at stake, just as the philosophical text seems to suggest, when Eros is described as a \u201cpowerful demon, a mediator between men and gods.\u201d<br>The subtitle \u2013 Hidden doors \u2013 further specifies how the theme points in the direction of an investigation on those hidden thresholds of the self which open up in the erotic experience. The disturbing nature of Eros, which turns attraction to the Other into a subversive experience, is a privileged path to our internal images, to the nucleus of feelings, desires and images that the experience of love awakens. In this sense, sexuality, in being in a relationship with the Other, is revealed at one and the same time as a relationship with those parts of the self that have been repressed or forgotten and which vehemently reappear . This opens up a fertile field of exploration for artistic creation on the representation of an intimate and secret dimension: that of a familiarity that until now has remained hidden and which comes to the surface in its otherness, which while negating itself from every possibility of definition and control concerns us from closer, as something which belongs to us and that we cannot overlook.<br>The call encourages participants to explore this existential dimension of the erotic event, drawing on their own experiences, reflections and critical considerations but also, optionally, the attached bibliography. This includes some works which can be useful to problematize the theme in the contemporary period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Bibliography<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Roland Barthes,&nbsp;<strong>La camera chiara<\/strong>,&nbsp;<em>Einaudi, Torino 2003<\/em><br>Zygmunt Bauman,&nbsp;<strong>Gli usi postmoderni del sesso<\/strong>,&nbsp;<em>Il Mulino, Bologna 2013<\/em><br>Aldo Carotenuto,&nbsp;<strong>Eros e Pathos<\/strong>,&nbsp;<em>Bompiani, Milano 2015<\/em><br>Byung-Chul Han,&nbsp;<strong>Eros in agonia<\/strong>,&nbsp;<em>Nottetempo, Roma 2015<\/em><br>Byung-Chul Han,&nbsp;<strong>La societ\u00e0 della trasparenza<\/strong>,&nbsp;<em>Nottetempo, Roma 2014<\/em><br>Umbero Galimberti,&nbsp;<strong>Le cose d\u2019amore<\/strong>,<em>&nbsp;Feltrinelli, Milano 2013<\/em><br>Romano Gasparotti,&nbsp;<strong>Filosofia dell\u2019Eros<\/strong>,&nbsp;<em>Bollati Boringhieri, Torino 2007<\/em><br>Julia Kristeva,&nbsp;<strong>Poteri dell\u2019orrore<\/strong>,&nbsp;<em>Spirali, Milano 2006<\/em><br>Octavio Paz,&nbsp;<strong>La duplice fiamma. Amore ed erotismo<\/strong>,&nbsp;<em>SE, Milano 2006<\/em><br>Platone,&nbsp;<strong>Simposio<\/strong>,&nbsp;<em>Feltrinelli, Milano 1995<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-genesis-blocks-gb-accordion gb-block-accordion\"><details><summary class=\"gb-accordion-title\">BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES<\/summary><div class=\"gb-accordion-text\">\n<p>Byung-Chul Han, who teaches Philosophy and theory of the Media in Berlin, theorizes in his book Agony of the Eros the death of Eros, killed by narcissism and the culture of assimilation. In the society of performance, characterised by the obsession to emerge, often in pathological self-reference, the Other tends to be degraded to a mere mirror of one\u2019s own ego, a source of confirmation and consensus for a subject in the hypertrophic quest for recognition. Reducing the Other to the self, one\u2019s own ideals and fantasies, is equivalent to depriving oneself of the emancipating strength of Eros, which is synonymous with going out of oneself, interruption of solipsism and repetition and which appears as a singular and irreducible event, always beyond the tasks that we set ourselves and the control we exercise over ourselves.<br>Symmetrically to the erosion of the Other is the progressive pornification of Eros, which Han analyses in another book, The transparent society, in which he reflects on transparency as an ideological base of the digital society. The culture of exposure\/exhibition of the self, as presupposed by the social networks, which extends from the body to words, from thoughts to fantasies, cancels out every possibility of erotic communication, assigning everything to a careless, pleasurable, positivity which is more suitable to the genre of immediate pleasure (I like\/I don\u2019t like it) than of loving and which, to the contrary of desire, does not allow any imaginative deviation. Continuing the observations of Roland Barthes in Camera Lucida, Han reminds us that a semantic opacity, an ambiguity, belongs to the erotic, which opens up only to the observer who lingers and contemplates where pornography begins, exactly where the secret disappears to the benefit of total self-ostentation. The presence of the punctum, which according to Barthes distinguishes the erotic image from the pornographic one does not produce pleasure, but a wound, a deep emotion, a disturbance that sets off thought and projects desire beyond the self. Pornographic images, on the other hand, do not offer anything to read, they are post-hermeneutic: they are emptied in consumption and in the spectaculum. In the transparent society, which does not tolerate gaps in information or in vision, love risks becoming a formula for enjoyment, in which the other is only the object of excitement: pornography.<br>The considerations of Zygmunt Baumann go in a direction converging with that of Han. In On Postmodern uses of sex, the sociologist explains how the current version of sexual activity is concentrated exclusively on its orgasmic effect. Bauman\u2019s theory is that in the postmodern age, eroticism has been released from both the function of reproduction and love, to become a cultural norm, taking on an importance that it did not have in the past, but at the same time, it has an original lightness and volatility, precisely of our times. On closer examination, the emancipation of eroticism has not produced any liberation because if it is true that it has had amongst its consequences an apparently freer sexuality, it also responds to the imperatives of the performance and the new micropowers. The real problem, however, that postmodern eroticism induces is that total lack of a norm, not in the moralistic sense of the term, but of accepted and shared social behaviour, and the few empirical rules that emerge, increase the confusion due to apparently insoluble contradictions. Postmodern culture magnifies the powers of sex and encourages infusing every corner of the world and life with erotic meaning and, at the same time, the rules of political correctness forbid treating the other as a pure sexual object. The result is a situation full of psychic neuroses, \u201call the more serious due to the fact that it is no longer clear what the norm is and consequently which type of conformity to the norm can heal them.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div><\/details><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Winner<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>TRANSLUCENT<\/strong><br>of&nbsp;<strong>Studio Alex<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gonzalo Bascu\u00f1an and Perrine Vichet founded Studio Alex in 2014 based in Amsterdam and Milan. Both coming from eclectic and composite background, they are exploring the light\u2019s substance in all its form. \u00abAlex, can be him, can be her, Alex studio is about shaping architectural light experiences\u00bb<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Studio Alex\u2019s projects as light Installations for Amsterdam Light Festival 2014- 2015, Canary wharf London Light Festival 2016, and Amsterdam Fashion Week 2016 are characterized by their emotional and minimal aesthetic impact, with the continuous search of a strong storytelling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TA EROTIKAHidden doors \u201cThere is a question that all lovers ask each other, and in it the erotic mystery is epitomized: Who are you?A question without an answer\u2026 The senses are and are not of this world.By means of them, poetry traces a bridge between seeing and believing.By that bridge, imagination is embodied and bodies &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/videosoundart.com\/en\/theme\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-senza-categoria-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.2 - 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