<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4052446112609185980</id><updated>2012-02-20T14:56:46.034+01:00</updated><category term='Un/Common Places'/><category term='Swoon'/><category term='etnografia'/><category term='osservazione partecipante'/><category term='street art'/><category term='Wesch'/><category term='memoria'/><category term='disegno'/><category term='Hackney'/><category term='società semplici'/><category term='paesaggio sonoro'/><category term='esperienza di flusso'/><category term='cultura'/><category term='ricerca sul campo'/><category term='luoghi comuni'/><category term='Dran'/><category term='video'/><category term='nave'/><category term='Pogo Cafè'/><category term='bellezza'/><category term='anthropology'/><category term='sport'/><category term='poesia'/><category term='stanza'/><category term='luogo'/><category term='donna'/><category term='Santa Muerte'/><category term='Lin Onus'/><category term='graffiti'/><category term='sguardo'/><category term='vegan'/><category term='partecipazione sociale'/><category term='percezione'/><category term='Banksy'/><category term='animazione'/><category term='prigionia'/><category term='participant observation'/><category term='messico'/><category term='aborigeni'/><category term='censura'/><category term='iconografia'/><category term='morte'/><category term='media'/><category term='oggetti'/><category term='antropologia'/><category term='detenzione'/><category term='comunità'/><category term='An Anthropologist in London'/><category term='Firenze'/><category term='controllo'/><category term='stereotype'/><category term='barbie'/><category term='religione'/><category term='fieldwork'/><category term='London'/><category term='Festival dei Popoli'/><category term='Gudzowaty'/><category term='arte'/><category term='fotografia'/><category term='progetto'/><category term='contemporaneità'/><category term='mappe'/><category term='potere'/><category term='psicogeografia'/><category term='cambiamento culturale'/><category term='immaginario'/><category term='digitale'/><category term='soprovvivenza'/><category term='immigrazione'/><category term='social network'/><category term='musica'/><category term='casa'/><category term='documentario'/><category term='visione'/><category term='pirateria'/><category term='YouTube'/><category term='monumenti'/><category term='cultura materiale'/><category term='font'/><category term='blog'/><category term='attivismo'/><category term='altare'/><category term='Peter Levin'/><category term='film etnografico'/><category term='vita'/><category term='cibo'/><category term='Etnografia dello spazio urbano'/><category term='teatro'/><category term='food'/><category term='anarchy'/><category term='identità culturale'/><category term='libertà'/><category term='London Fields'/><category term='parola'/><category term='Torino'/><category term='herzog'/><category term='identità'/><category term='rifugiati'/><category term='società'/><title type='text'>VIDEOCULTURE</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://videoculture.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4052446112609185980/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://videoculture.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Cristina</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10320497324728266509</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hV709USIotE/TuoCHG8pS3I/AAAAAAAAAk4/hDtfiPnFwh8/s220/CristinaProfilo.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>47</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4052446112609185980.post-1740568976256782872</id><published>2012-02-13T10:00:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2012-02-13T10:00:03.042+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='fotografia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Gudzowaty'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sport'/><title type='text'>La fotografia sportiva di Tomasz Gudzowaty</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.fubiz.net/2011/12/16/tomasz-gudzowaty/tomasz-gudzowaty13/" rel="attachment wp-att-207205" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img alt="tomasz-gudzowaty13" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-207205" height="253" src="http://www.fubiz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/tomasz-gudzowaty13-550x435.jpg" title="tomasz-gudzowaty13" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://gudzowaty.com/"&gt;Tomasz Gudzowaty&lt;/a&gt;, nato nel 1971, è un fotografo polacco che indaga in bianco e nero diverse tematiche sociali, dedicandosi in particolare - negli ultimi anni - alla fotografia sportiva.&lt;br /&gt;Le sue ricerche si concentrano intorno alle discipline marginali, esotiche, atipiche, che si collocano nelle periferie del mondo sportivo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Di seguito alcuni suoi scatti, che rivelano un'attenzione alla &lt;a href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simmetria"&gt;simmetria&lt;/a&gt; e alla geometria che mi affascina sempre.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name='more'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt; 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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.fubiz.net/2011/12/16/tomasz-gudzowaty/tomasz-gudzowaty14/" rel="attachment wp-att-207206"&gt;&lt;img alt="tomasz-gudzowaty14" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-207206" height="211" src="http://www.fubiz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/tomasz-gudzowaty14-550x364.jpg" title="tomasz-gudzowaty14" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.fubiz.net/2011/12/16/tomasz-gudzowaty/tomasz-gudzowaty23/" rel="attachment wp-att-207215"&gt;&lt;img alt="tomasz-gudzowaty23" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-207215" height="215" src="http://www.fubiz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/tomasz-gudzowaty23-550x371.jpg" title="tomasz-gudzowaty23" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.fubiz.net/2011/12/16/tomasz-gudzowaty/tomasz-gudzowaty11/" rel="attachment wp-att-207203"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt; 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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.fubiz.net/2011/12/16/tomasz-gudzowaty/tomasz-gudzowaty2/" rel="attachment wp-att-207194"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.fubiz.net/2011/12/16/tomasz-gudzowaty/tomasz-gudzowaty1/" rel="attachment wp-att-207193"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.fubiz.net/2011/12/16/tomasz-gudzowaty/"&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-207202" height="245" src="http://www.fubiz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/tomasz-gudzowaty10-550x422.jpg" title="" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.fubiz.net/2011/12/16/tomasz-gudzowaty/tomasz-gudzowaty1/" rel="attachment wp-att-207193"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4052446112609185980-1740568976256782872?l=videoculture.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://videoculture.blogspot.com/feeds/1740568976256782872/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://videoculture.blogspot.com/2012/02/la-fotografia-sportiva-di-tomasz.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4052446112609185980/posts/default/1740568976256782872'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4052446112609185980/posts/default/1740568976256782872'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://videoculture.blogspot.com/2012/02/la-fotografia-sportiva-di-tomasz.html' title='La fotografia sportiva di Tomasz Gudzowaty'/><author><name>Cristina</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10320497324728266509</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hV709USIotE/TuoCHG8pS3I/AAAAAAAAAk4/hDtfiPnFwh8/s220/CristinaProfilo.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4052446112609185980.post-9161075478759088116</id><published>2012-01-19T23:18:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2012-01-19T23:35:56.599+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='video'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='identità'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='social network'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='fotografia'/><title type='text'>The Photographs of Your Junk (will be publicized!)</title><content type='html'>Un video molto interessante, che ci racconta i paradossi della comunicazione dei social network e della condivisione - ancorché involontaria - di immagini e informazioni.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="253" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/aPJHI0VYVJo?rel=0" width="440"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Che ne pensate?&lt;br /&gt;[grazie a &lt;a href="http://pierovereni.blogspot.com/"&gt;Piero&lt;/a&gt; per la segnalazione]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4052446112609185980-9161075478759088116?l=videoculture.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://videoculture.blogspot.com/feeds/9161075478759088116/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://videoculture.blogspot.com/2012/01/photographs-of-your-junk-will-be.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4052446112609185980/posts/default/9161075478759088116'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4052446112609185980/posts/default/9161075478759088116'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://videoculture.blogspot.com/2012/01/photographs-of-your-junk-will-be.html' title='The Photographs of Your Junk (will be publicized!)'/><author><name>Cristina</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10320497324728266509</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hV709USIotE/TuoCHG8pS3I/AAAAAAAAAk4/hDtfiPnFwh8/s220/CristinaProfilo.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://img.youtube.com/vi/aPJHI0VYVJo/default.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4052446112609185980.post-6568326140390637143</id><published>2012-01-10T10:00:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2012-01-10T10:00:11.216+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Banksy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='società'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='street art'/><title type='text'>Banksy, comunicatore (e promotore di cambiamento) sociale</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img alt="newbanksy2" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-206917" height="265" src="http://www.fubiz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/newbanksy2-550x366.jpg" title="newbanksy2" width="400" /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;Divino Banksy - quintessenza di talento + preparazione + capacità di interpretare il nostro tempo come nessuno e di aprire la società a una direzione dialogica e libertaria: questo blog non mancherà mai di aggiornarvi sui suoi lavori!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Banksy, un comunicatore sociale&lt;/b&gt; è l'&lt;a href="http://unito.academia.edu/LetiziaGilardino/Papers/312600/Banksy_un_comunicatore_sociale"&gt;appassionante tesi di Letizia Gilardino&lt;/a&gt; che ne ripercorre l'opera, mentre di seguito le ultime sue produzioni che ho particolarmente apprezzato ;-)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name='more'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.fubiz.net/2011/12/15/new-works-of-banksy/"&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-206920" height="267" src="http://www.fubiz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/newbanksy5-550x368.jpg" title="" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.fubiz.net/2011/12/15/new-works-of-banksy/newbanksy7/" rel="attachment wp-att-206922"&gt;&lt;img alt="newbanksy7" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-206922" height="299" src="http://www.fubiz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/newbanksy7-550x412.jpg" title="newbanksy7" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.fubiz.net/2011/12/15/new-works-of-banksy/newbanksy4/" rel="attachment wp-att-206919"&gt;&lt;img alt="newbanksy4" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-206919" height="259" src="http://www.fubiz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/newbanksy4-550x357.jpg" title="newbanksy4" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4052446112609185980-6568326140390637143?l=videoculture.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://videoculture.blogspot.com/feeds/6568326140390637143/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://videoculture.blogspot.com/2012/01/banksy-comunicatore-e-promotore-di.html#comment-form' title='1 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4052446112609185980/posts/default/6568326140390637143'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4052446112609185980/posts/default/6568326140390637143'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://videoculture.blogspot.com/2012/01/banksy-comunicatore-e-promotore-di.html' title='Banksy, comunicatore (e promotore di cambiamento) sociale'/><author><name>Cristina</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10320497324728266509</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hV709USIotE/TuoCHG8pS3I/AAAAAAAAAk4/hDtfiPnFwh8/s220/CristinaProfilo.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4052446112609185980.post-5861963137750097759</id><published>2011-11-17T20:14:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2011-11-17T20:15:33.967+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='video'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='animazione'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='prigionia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='detenzione'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='controllo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='film etnografico'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='morte'/><title type='text'>Festival dei Popoli /3 - White Elephant e Crulic</title><content type='html'>Ovvero continua la mia visione privata presso la Videolibrary, gentilmente messa a disposizione degli accreditati presso la Mediateca della Regione Toscana, e oggi vi segnalo (tra i tanti che ho visto) due documentari di rara intensità - l'uno antropologico, l'altro di denuncia sociale.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.festivaldeipopoli.org/images/dbImages/thumbs/white_ele_thumb.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.festivaldeipopoli.org/images/dbImages/thumbs/white_ele_thumb.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Il primo, &lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;White Elephant&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;, di Kristof Bilsen, si concentra sull’ufficio postale centrale di Kinshasa, lasciato dagli europei dopo l'indipendenza del Congo. Questo enorme relitto del passato coloniale è rimasto come è stato lasciato, sperimentando un progressivo lentissimo declino, ben illustrato da spazi fatiscenti mai ristrutturati, e impiegati congelati in una dimensione spazio-temporale da cui desiderano e pianificano di fuggire - una sorta di metafora dell'intero paese.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name='more'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Il regista ci porta con una fotografia realistica e lunghe inquadrature fisse alla scoperta del luogo e dei suoi dipendenti, entrambi immobili e catatonici malgrado gli sforzi del personaggio che guida l'esplorazione, una giovane studentessa di marketing - che vorrebbe comprendere la situazione ed essere dotata di tutti i dati necessari per realizzare un rilancio del servizio "per il bene del suo paese!" - la quale invero trova solo continui muri di gomma, tanto da parte del personale che, pagato un decimo di quanto gli spetterebbe, ormai ha rinunciato a lottare perché i clienti si fidino ancora di un servizio troppo a dir poco non funzionante, quanto ancora di una dirigenza che sta organizzando per sé un'uscita 'segreta' grazie a fantomatici 'cinesi' che potrebbero operera una rivoluzione del luogo e della sua organizzazione.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.festivaldeipopoli.org/images/dbImages/thumbs/CRULIC_thumb.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.festivaldeipopoli.org/images/dbImages/thumbs/CRULIC_thumb.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;L'altro film che voglio segnalare e diffondere quanto più possibile, &lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;Crulic&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, di Anca Damian, sta degnamente in competizione con &lt;i&gt;Vol Spécial&lt;/i&gt; di cui ho già detto, e affronta tematiche analoghe a quest'ultimo - ovvero una condizione di prigionia di un ragazzo il quale muore in seguito allo sciopero della fame effettuato per protestare della prigionia a Cracovia nella completa indifferenza sotto la quale è passato il suo urlo di innocenza per mesi, di processi-farsa e di indagini che non hanno preso in alcuna considerazione le sue dichiarazioni (quali l'assenza dal paese al momento del reato del quale è stato accusato, con tanto di biglietti di bus internazionali e testimoni a suo favore).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Claudiu Crulic ormai è morto, e la sua storia viene raccontata dalla sua anima che ripercorre giovinezza, età adulta e odissea che l'ha portato alla fine, ricostruendo il tutto con disegni a mano, fotografie, collage, animazioni in &lt;i&gt;stop-motion&lt;/i&gt;. Eppure la narrazione alterna differenti registri, tra i quali quello ironico e poetico ci portano a un'ìimmedesimazione diretta nel protagonista, che potrebbe essere ciascuno di noi - quando il 'sistema' gli si mette contro e per comodità gli affibbia il ruolo di capro espiatorio, dimostrando che effettuare tale operazione è in realtà facilissimo e che non siamo al sicuro da nessuna parte.&lt;br /&gt;Un film che colpisce diretto allo stomaco, e ci obbliga a riflettere su quanto possa costare - &lt;i&gt;anche a noi&lt;/i&gt; - questa apparato di controllo fatto da processi, burocrazia, autorità menefreghiste e lassiste, forze di polizia a loro volta incrontrollate nel loro agire (troppe volte criminale)...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4052446112609185980-5861963137750097759?l=videoculture.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://videoculture.blogspot.com/feeds/5861963137750097759/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://videoculture.blogspot.com/2011/11/festival-dei-popoli-3-white-elephant-e.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4052446112609185980/posts/default/5861963137750097759'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4052446112609185980/posts/default/5861963137750097759'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://videoculture.blogspot.com/2011/11/festival-dei-popoli-3-white-elephant-e.html' title='Festival dei Popoli /3 - White Elephant e Crulic'/><author><name>Cristina</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10320497324728266509</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hV709USIotE/TuoCHG8pS3I/AAAAAAAAAk4/hDtfiPnFwh8/s220/CristinaProfilo.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4052446112609185980.post-1747657116945423363</id><published>2011-11-16T10:40:00.004+01:00</published><updated>2011-11-16T20:00:52.893+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='video'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Peter Levin'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='musica'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='paesaggio sonoro'/><title type='text'>Sonor, di Levin Peter - Sul paesaggio sonoro di udenti e non udenti</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.visionsdureel.ch/fileadmin/presskits/2011/competition_internationale/moyens//sonor1.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="233" src="http://www.visionsdureel.ch/fileadmin/presskits/2011/competition_internationale/moyens//sonor1.png" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Sonor&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt; (2011), di Levin Peter, è il resoconto, attraverso una serie di 'quadri'/situazioni,  dell'incontro tra un musicista e una ballerina non udente dalla nascita,  e della loro esplorazione congiunta dell'ambiente sonoro così come  percepito da udenti e da non udenti (perché c'è, non è silenzio) col  fine di tentare poi la restituzione delle loro scoperte in forma verbale  e visiva attraverso il film.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Poco alla volta la loro relazione si sviluppa come un'improvvisazione  musicale, dove l'ambiente sembra rivelare una partitura di onde e  vibrazioni cui abitualmente - noi normodotati - non prestiamo  attenzione. Il tutto trattato con un sensuale bianco e nero, con il  tempo lento della scoperta e della comprensione reciproca dei  protagonisti, e melodie solo apparentemente dissonanti.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name='more'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="253" src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/20721901?title=0&amp;amp;byline=0&amp;amp;portrait=0" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="440"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Un risultato semplicissimo ed estremamente profondo, chiaramente debitore di studi di acustica, ricerche sul &lt;a href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paesaggio_sonoro"&gt;paesaggio sonoro&lt;/a&gt; e sperimentazioni musicali di lunga data. Ma - pur nell'onnipresente neve che tutto sembrerebbe ovattare - connotato dal tepore che si sviluppa nel delicato dialogo/confronto dei protagonisti, e dal brivido del racconto della pratica abituale della ballerina di posare le mani sull'impianto stereo e mettere in loop un brano musicale finché il suo corpo e la sua memoria non siano perfettamente impregnati di una certa sequenza di vibrazioni, secondo un certo ritmo, sul quale lei disegnerà e interpreterà la propria coreografia.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Qui di seguito una breve intervista a Levin Peter, per chi avesse piacere di approfondire.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="253" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/_nJtMJNcnGc?rel=0" width="440"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4052446112609185980-1747657116945423363?l=videoculture.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://videoculture.blogspot.com/feeds/1747657116945423363/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://videoculture.blogspot.com/2011/11/sonor-di-peter-levin-sul-paesaggio.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4052446112609185980/posts/default/1747657116945423363'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4052446112609185980/posts/default/1747657116945423363'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://videoculture.blogspot.com/2011/11/sonor-di-peter-levin-sul-paesaggio.html' title='Sonor, di Levin Peter - Sul paesaggio sonoro di udenti e non udenti'/><author><name>Cristina</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10320497324728266509</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hV709USIotE/TuoCHG8pS3I/AAAAAAAAAk4/hDtfiPnFwh8/s220/CristinaProfilo.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://img.youtube.com/vi/_nJtMJNcnGc/default.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4052446112609185980.post-9084376821318357866</id><published>2011-11-15T18:00:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2011-11-15T18:01:51.271+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='rifugiati'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='film etnografico'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Festival dei Popoli'/><title type='text'>Festival dei Popoli /2 - Vol Spécial</title><content type='html'>Ancora folgorata dalla visione ieri sera di Cave of Forgotten Dreams di Werner Herzog - che meriterà vero e proprio saggio a parte vista la quantità di finestre che ha aperto nella mia mente e di ricordi/rimandi all'intera sua opera cinematografica - stamattina ho deciso di approfittare della visione gratuita di alcuni documentari che altrimenti perderei (dato che il festival si svolge su due sale) presso la Mediateca della Regione Toscana. E ho già deciso il film che secondo me deve vincere la sezione lungometraggi.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.festivaldeipopoli.org/images/dbImages/thumbs/Volspecial_05_thumb.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.festivaldeipopoli.org/images/dbImages/thumbs/Volspecial_05_thumb.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;VOL SPÉCIAL di Fernand Melgar è girato in un campo di detenzione temporanea a Ginevra, dove richiedenti asilo e &lt;i&gt;sans-papiers&lt;/i&gt; sono  imprigionati, senza processo né condanna, in attesa d’espulsione dal territorio elvetico. Nel tempo del 'soggiorno', tra  il personale e i detenuti - in realtà persone normalissime che nella maggior parte dei casi sono puramente penalizzate dalla mancanza di una carta di permesse a fronte di anni di soggiorno, lavoro, tasse pagate in Svizzera - nascono rapporti di amicizia,  di rispetto, di tentativo di vivere la situazione col massimo della normalità quando entrambi esperiescono, a livello micro, decisioni formulate da altri e da un mondo fuori, altro dalla realtà della vita concreta e delle storie individuali. Fino all’annuncio dell’espulsione: coloro che rifiutano di partire verranno  ammanettati, legati e issati a forza su di un aereo (&lt;i&gt;vol spécial&lt;/i&gt;) per quello che è il metodo finale più violento di rigetto, che talvolta provoca addirittura la morte dell'espulso.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name='more'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Un film eccezionale, densissimo di informazioni/livelli/chiavi di lettura, che provoca su un livello 'semplice' (quello generale del diritto alla libertà, al movimento, alla possibilità di scegliere delle proprie vite anziché essere burattini in mani altrui che ti possono inviare in un paese in cui non hai mai vissuto perché sei privo d'un pezzo di carta così come ucciso in quel paese perché esponente di una minoranza), ben documentato sull'argomento, che mette in scena l'umanità di ciascuno dei protagonisti - tutti sullo stesso fronte, indipendentemente dai ruoli - rispetto all'asetticità della normativa che pur gestisce le loro esistenze (le decisioni dei giudici sui detenuti, ma anche i frequenti incontri con la psicologa per l'equipe che gestisce il centro).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Una narrazione corale che oscilla tra il registro drammatico e la pura cronachistica, un lavoro 'classico' di inquadrature fisse e piani sequenza costruiti in camera a mano, una fotografia che riprende fedelmente la luce naturale, per un'azione che si svolge in gran parte nell'inverno - dove lo scintillare gelido della neve amplifica ulteriormente la situazione di dislocazione e prigionia esperita dai soggetti del documentario, per lo più africani e appartenenti a minoranze culturali kosovare. Un film che mi ha affascinato, appassionato e posto così tante domande sul suo modo di lavorare, che domattina farò di tutto per una chiacchierata diretta col regista :-)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4052446112609185980-9084376821318357866?l=videoculture.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://videoculture.blogspot.com/feeds/9084376821318357866/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://videoculture.blogspot.com/2011/11/festival-dei-popoli-2-vol-special.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4052446112609185980/posts/default/9084376821318357866'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4052446112609185980/posts/default/9084376821318357866'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://videoculture.blogspot.com/2011/11/festival-dei-popoli-2-vol-special.html' title='Festival dei Popoli /2 - Vol Spécial'/><author><name>Cristina</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10320497324728266509</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hV709USIotE/TuoCHG8pS3I/AAAAAAAAAk4/hDtfiPnFwh8/s220/CristinaProfilo.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4052446112609185980.post-6034611118003469081</id><published>2011-11-14T20:26:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2011-11-15T17:38:56.965+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='herzog'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Firenze'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='antropologia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='documentario'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='film etnografico'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Festival dei Popoli'/><title type='text'>Festival dei Popoli: una settimana di documentari!</title><content type='html'>E la sottoscritta, per la prima volta in anni, ha avuto l'accredito per seguirlo interamente e gratuitamente, eheh! ;-)&lt;br /&gt;La 52esima edizione del Festival dei Popoli è stata inaugurata sabato 12 novembre dall’anteprima di &lt;i&gt;It Might Get Loud&lt;/i&gt; di  Davis Guggenheim. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.festivaldeipopoli.org/images/dbImages/thumbs/mensajero_thumb.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.festivaldeipopoli.org/images/dbImages/thumbs/mensajero_thumb.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;La sottoscritta è però arrivata solo oggi e ha cominciato morbidamente, per entrare decisamente nel vivo domani: ho così visto &lt;b&gt;MENSAJERO&lt;/b&gt; (2011), film ambientato in Argentina di Martín Solá, che racconta la storia di Rodrigo - messaggero di una comunità della Puña, nel nord  dell’Argentina, il quale ha lasciato il suo posto per lavorare in una salina.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name='more'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Attraverso lui e il suo viaggio, lo sguardo della macchina da presa  rivela un mondo realistico e visionario, come lo sguardo del suo  protagonista. Un lavoro costruito con lunghe inquadrature fisse in cui i protagonisti compiono per minuti le medesime azioni, o rimangono fermi davanti alla mdp, con una dilatazione nel tempo di quello che è lo spazio infinito - dilatato e rarefatto oltremodo dall'uso del bianco e nero - in cui lavorano per pochi soldi.&lt;br /&gt;Un documentario di creazione che potrebbe essere una bella lezione per tanti antropologi, al fine di ricreare quel rapporto estetica-documentazione che negli anni la disciplina ha perso.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Quindi un cortometraggio veramente geniale, un piccolo gioello di autoironia tutta francese: &lt;b&gt;POST-INDUSTRIE&lt;/b&gt; (2011) di Arnaud Gerber ha l'ambizione di ricreare la prima inquadratura del primo film della storia del cinema: &lt;i&gt;L’uscita dalle officine Lumière&lt;/i&gt;, ricorrendo ai vecchi stabilimenti Renault di Boulogne-Billancourt.&lt;br /&gt;Qui il regista-operatore sosta in luoghi affollati, ormai posti sotto continua sorveglianza, riprendendo persone che non vogliono essere riprese, rispondendo alle loro richieste di spiegazione e riflettendo con autoironia sulla propria 'militanza' e il proprio ruolo nella lotta di classe.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.festivaldeipopoli.org/images/dbImages/thumbs/cave1_thumb.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="256" src="http://www.festivaldeipopoli.org/images/dbImages/thumbs/cave1_thumb.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;L'evento clou della giornata è però la proiezione in 3D di &lt;b&gt;CAVE OF FORGOTTEN DREAMS&lt;/b&gt; (2010) del mio adorato Werner Herzog, girato tra &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Canada/USA/Francia/Germania/Gran Bretagna, esplorazione della grotta Chauvet nel sud della Francia, la  più antica del mondo. Al suo interno, nel 1994, sono state scoperte  centinaia di pitture risalenti al periodo Paleolitico.&lt;br /&gt;Il film esplora  questo luogo straordinario, e l’utilizzo della tecnologia 3D rende il viaggio nei meandri della terra  ancora più realistico, promuovendo la  riflessione sul desiderio primordiale dell’uomo di comunicare e  rappresentare il mondo intorno a sé.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Ecco, è tutto detto: come potete pensare che io mi perda una cosa del genere? &lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A domani, con un programma che diventa intenso!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4052446112609185980-6034611118003469081?l=videoculture.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://videoculture.blogspot.com/feeds/6034611118003469081/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://videoculture.blogspot.com/2011/11/festival-dei-popoli-una-settimana-di.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4052446112609185980/posts/default/6034611118003469081'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4052446112609185980/posts/default/6034611118003469081'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://videoculture.blogspot.com/2011/11/festival-dei-popoli-una-settimana-di.html' title='Festival dei Popoli: una settimana di documentari!'/><author><name>Cristina</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10320497324728266509</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hV709USIotE/TuoCHG8pS3I/AAAAAAAAAk4/hDtfiPnFwh8/s220/CristinaProfilo.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4052446112609185980.post-1959709084956182520</id><published>2011-10-06T10:00:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2011-10-06T10:00:00.928+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='vita'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='oggetti'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='arte'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cultura materiale'/><title type='text'>"Vanitas", di James Hopkins</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.abstractk.com/public/acidolatte/JamesHopkins_1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" height="320" src="http://www.abstractk.com/public/acidolatte/JamesHopkins_1.jpg" style="margin-top: 0pt;" width="218" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Per parlare di &lt;a href="http://www.jameshopkinsworks.com/"&gt;&lt;b&gt;James Hopkins&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; uso le &lt;a href="http://www.jameshopkinsworks.com/writings_annibali.html"&gt;parole di Manuela Annibali&lt;/a&gt;, la quale definisce l'artista inglese un "acuto conoscitore dei principi formali,   simbolici e prospettici delle immagini" che, "realizzando sculture e   installazioni che giocano sull’equilibrio, sullo spazio e, soprattutto,   sull’illusione ottica, sulla consapevolezza / inconsapevolezza della   percezione e sui contenuti allegorici [...] pressa i limiti della   rappresentazione, avvalendosi di istruiti giochi linguistici e   affrontando coscientemente concetti storico-artistici che affondano le   radici nella più classica delle tradizioni" invitandoci "a   riflettere sulla mutevolezza e sulla instabilità della realtà moderna.   Mistificando oggetti ed equilibri, l’artista sa rendere attuali   iconografie artistiche datate, dunque, quali la &lt;i&gt;vanitas&lt;/i&gt; e la natura&amp;nbsp;morta".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name='more'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ed è proprio la serie &lt;b&gt;Vanitas&lt;/b&gt;,&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;della quale riporto sia immagini sia l'ulteriore descrizione della Annibali: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.jameshopkinsworks.com/"&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-5870" height="258" src="http://www.designaside.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/JamesHopkins02.jpg" title="JamesHopkins02" width="400" /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"E’ nel libro sacro &lt;i&gt;Qoelet&lt;/i&gt;, presente nell’Antico Testamento   della Bibbia cristiana come nella Bibbia ebraica, che appare esposto per   la prima volta l’assioma, o monito se vogliamo, di &lt;i&gt;Vanitas vanitatum&lt;/i&gt;,   vanità delle vanità, categorica sentenza di come tutto non sia altro che   cosa fatua. Sulla scia di tale fonte letteraria, i temi della morte, del   passare inesorabile del tempo e della fine di tutte le cose sono stati   affrontati nell’arte, con caparbietà già dall’antichità: un cranio e una   farfalla (in greco la parola ‘farfalla’, &lt;i&gt;psyce&lt;/i&gt;, significa anche anima)   troneggiano in un mosaico rinvenuto a Pompei, così come scene di ‘danze   macabre’, grotteschi girotondi di uomini e scheletri, appaiono in età   medioevale come severo invito a condurre una virtuosa vita cristiana."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.jameshopkinsworks.com/"&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-5871" height="261" src="http://www.designaside.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/JamesHopkins03.jpg" title="JamesHopkins03" width="400" /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"La   &lt;i&gt;Vanitas&lt;/i&gt; in quanto genere pittorico autonomo si afferma però nel periodo   della Controriforma, soprattutto in ambito Protestante e Calvinista,   come caposaldo di una didattica moralistica, religiosa e filosofica   tutta seicentesca. Nature morte con chiari elementi che alludono alla   caducità della vita terrena — il teschio, la candela spenta, silenti   strumenti musicali, la clessidra, l’orologio, le bolle di sapone, il   fiore reciso, i frutti intaccati dai vermi —, con crudo realismo,   affastellano le gallerie dei principali musei d’arte, ricordando anche   al poco attento osservatore quanto effimera sia la vita terrena, con i   suoi beni e i suoi piaceri tutti umani.Quasi completamente abbandonato   durante il Secolo dei Lumi, il soggetto seduce successivamente artisti   come Cézanne, Braque, Mirò, Ernst, Klee, Magritte, Dalì, Tyson, Warhol e   Hirst, che, in epoca più moderna, ne ripropongono rielaborazioni del   tutto inedite, spesso irriverenti e provocatorie."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Personalmente, però, come antropologa, a me quesa serie solleva anche altre riflessioni, più relative a una  reinterpretazione artistica degli oggetti della nostra cultura materiale  contemporanea, i quali - come sappiamo - possono anche dirci molti  della nostra ideantità nel momento in cui li rifiutiamo o li adottiamo  facendone il nostro specifico uso personale.&lt;br /&gt;Come comporreste il vostro corpo e la vostra identità, con oggetti d'uso quotidiano? Quali scegliereste? Come li disporreste su una superficie piana?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4052446112609185980-1959709084956182520?l=videoculture.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://videoculture.blogspot.com/feeds/1959709084956182520/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://videoculture.blogspot.com/2011/10/vanitas-di-james-hopkins.html#comment-form' title='2 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4052446112609185980/posts/default/1959709084956182520'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4052446112609185980/posts/default/1959709084956182520'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://videoculture.blogspot.com/2011/10/vanitas-di-james-hopkins.html' title='&quot;Vanitas&quot;, di James Hopkins'/><author><name>Cristina</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10320497324728266509</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hV709USIotE/TuoCHG8pS3I/AAAAAAAAAk4/hDtfiPnFwh8/s220/CristinaProfilo.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4052446112609185980.post-3797351118614632415</id><published>2011-10-04T10:20:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2011-10-04T10:28:42.474+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Dran'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='società'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='street art'/><title type='text'>Dran (siccome non so scrivere, ho preferito fare un disegno)</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://static.blogo.it/artsblog/dran/Dran2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://static.blogo.it/artsblog/dran/Dran2.jpg" width="260" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://retroactif.free.fr/dran/"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Dran&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; è un graffitaro francese di raro talento, che per molti versi attua una critica sociale sulla falsariga di quella di Banksy ma rispetto a quest'ultimo è forse più disperato nel suo tratto e nei suoi contenuti in qualche modo 'fanciulleschi'.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name='more'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Molti suoi lavori tendono all'effetto splatter, i suoi protagonisti sono bambini che subiscono  la violenza della società, la denunciano, la scherniscono. L'umanità alla deriva, che ha perso il senso della delicatezza e dell'incanto, viene ritratta nella sua disperata solitudine (come quella del bambino obeso abbracciato dalla fidanzatina colorata ch'egli stesso ha disegnato, o un Gesù Cristo  che prende a pugni Babbo Natale). Ne viene fuori il ritratto d'un artista tanto romantico quanto cinico.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La visita al &lt;a href="http://retroactif.free.fr/dran/"&gt;suo sito&lt;/a&gt; è un viaggio nel suo immaginario - per il tramite di una musica jazz sprigionata da un vecchio giradischi e la rappresentazione di quello che potrebbe essere  il suo studio. A prenmessa della homepage il sottotitolo&lt;i&gt; "Comme je ne sais pas écrire, j’ai prefèré faire un  dessin”&lt;/i&gt; [trad. lett. "siccome non so scrivere, ho preferito fare un disegno"].&lt;br /&gt;Buona visione!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://static.blogo.it/artsblog/dran/dran.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="239" src="http://static.blogo.it/artsblog/dran/dran.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://static.blogo.it/artsblog/dran/Dran12.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://static.blogo.it/artsblog/dran/Dran12.jpg" width="312" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://static.blogo.it/artsblog/dran/Dran8.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="306" src="http://static.blogo.it/artsblog/dran/Dran8.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://static.blogo.it/artsblog/dran/Dran6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://static.blogo.it/artsblog/dran/Dran6.jpg" width="266" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://static.blogo.it/artsblog/dran/Dran5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://static.blogo.it/artsblog/dran/Dran5.jpg" width="258" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://static.blogo.it/artsblog/dran/Dran2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://static.blogo.it/artsblog/dran/Dran2.jpg" width="262" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4052446112609185980-3797351118614632415?l=videoculture.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://videoculture.blogspot.com/feeds/3797351118614632415/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://videoculture.blogspot.com/2011/10/dran-siccome-non-so-scrivere-ho.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4052446112609185980/posts/default/3797351118614632415'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4052446112609185980/posts/default/3797351118614632415'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://videoculture.blogspot.com/2011/10/dran-siccome-non-so-scrivere-ho.html' title='Dran (siccome non so scrivere, ho preferito fare un disegno)'/><author><name>Cristina</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10320497324728266509</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hV709USIotE/TuoCHG8pS3I/AAAAAAAAAk4/hDtfiPnFwh8/s220/CristinaProfilo.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4052446112609185980.post-9086427522377013190</id><published>2011-09-09T11:00:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2011-09-09T11:00:05.058+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='antropologia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='fotografia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='progetto'/><title type='text'>The Burning House</title><content type='html'>&lt;a class="cboxElement" href="http://www.designplayground.it/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/a-l-a-n-h-u-n-t-e-r.jpeg" rel="lightbox[9754]" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;" title="a l a n   h u n t e r"&gt;&lt;img alt="" height="254" src="http://www.designplayground.it/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/a-l-a-n-h-u-n-t-e-r.jpeg" title="a l a n   h u n t e r" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.designplayground.it/2011/07/theburninghouse-com/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to The Burning House,  la casa brucia, cosa porti con te?"&gt;La casa brucia, cosa porti con te?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Se la tua casa stesse andando a fuoco, quali oggetti salveresti e porteresti con te? Quali sono le tue priorità - sia emotive, sia concrete?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Foster Huntington vi invita a pensarci, raccogliere tali oggetti, realizzarne una composizione, fotografarli e accompagnarli da una descrizione al sito del progetto&lt;br /&gt;-&amp;gt; &lt;a href="http://theburninghouse.com/submit" target="_blank" title="The Burning House"&gt;The Burning House&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name='more'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span id="more-9754"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a class="lightbox cboxElement" href="http://www.designplayground.it/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/a-l-a-n-h-u-n-t-e-r.jpeg" rel="lightbox[cleaner-gallery-1]" title="a l a n   h u n t e r"&gt;&lt;img alt="a l a n   h u n t e r" class="attachment-large" height="398" src="http://www.designplayground.it/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/a-l-a-n-h-u-n-t-e-r.jpeg" title="a l a n   h u n t e r" width="500" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a class="lightbox cboxElement" href="http://www.designplayground.it/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/arielagittlenburninghouseLG.jpeg" rel="lightbox[cleaner-gallery-1]" title="arielagittlenburninghouseLG"&gt;&lt;img alt="arielagittlenburninghouseLG" class="attachment-large" height="333" src="http://www.designplayground.it/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/arielagittlenburninghouseLG.jpeg" title="arielagittlenburninghouseLG" width="500" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a class="lightbox cboxElement" href="http://www.designplayground.it/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Aur%C3%A9lie-Laroye.jpeg" rel="lightbox[cleaner-gallery-1]" title="Aurélie Laroye"&gt;&lt;img alt="Aurélie Laroye" class="attachment-large" height="640" src="http://www.designplayground.it/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Aur%C3%A9lie-Laroye.jpeg" title="Aurélie Laroye" width="427" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a class="lightbox cboxElement" href="http://www.designplayground.it/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Becca-Webster.jpeg" rel="lightbox[cleaner-gallery-1]" title="Becca Webster"&gt;&lt;img alt="Becca Webster" class="attachment-large" height="333" src="http://www.designplayground.it/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Becca-Webster.jpeg" title="Becca Webster" width="500" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;     &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a class="lightbox cboxElement" href="http://www.designplayground.it/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/brianferry.jpeg" rel="lightbox[cleaner-gallery-1]" title="brianferry"&gt;&lt;img alt="brianferry" class="attachment-large" height="331" src="http://www.designplayground.it/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/brianferry.jpeg" title="brianferry" width="500" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;     &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a class="lightbox cboxElement" href="http://www.designplayground.it/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/burning-house-LuisMendo2.jpeg" rel="lightbox[cleaner-gallery-1]" title="burning house LuisMendo2"&gt;&lt;img alt="burning house LuisMendo2" class="attachment-large" height="640" src="http://www.designplayground.it/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/burning-house-LuisMendo2.jpeg" title="burning house LuisMendo2" width="427" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;     &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a class="lightbox cboxElement" href="http://www.designplayground.it/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/burning_house_sebastian_kuntz.jpeg" rel="lightbox[cleaner-gallery-1]" title="burning_house_sebastian_kuntz"&gt;&lt;img alt="burning_house_sebastian_kuntz" class="attachment-large" height="333" src="http://www.designplayground.it/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/burning_house_sebastian_kuntz.jpeg" title="burning_house_sebastian_kuntz" width="500" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;     &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a class="lightbox cboxElement" href="http://www.designplayground.it/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/burninghouse-2.jpeg" rel="lightbox[cleaner-gallery-1]" title="burninghouse-2"&gt;&lt;img alt="burninghouse-2" class="attachment-large" height="549" src="http://www.designplayground.it/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/burninghouse-2.jpeg" title="burninghouse-2" width="500" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;     &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a class="lightbox cboxElement" href="http://www.designplayground.it/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Caroline.jpeg" rel="lightbox[cleaner-gallery-1]" title="Caroline"&gt;&lt;img alt="Caroline" class="attachment-large" height="333" src="http://www.designplayground.it/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Caroline.jpeg" title="Caroline" width="500" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;     &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a class="lightbox cboxElement" href="http://www.designplayground.it/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/chrisburninghouse.jpeg" rel="lightbox[cleaner-gallery-1]" title="chrisburninghouse"&gt;&lt;img alt="chrisburninghouse" class="attachment-large" height="398" src="http://www.designplayground.it/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/chrisburninghouse.jpeg" title="chrisburninghouse" width="500" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;     &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a class="lightbox cboxElement" href="http://www.designplayground.it/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Christian-Baron.jpeg" rel="lightbox[cleaner-gallery-1]" title="Christian Baron"&gt;&lt;img alt="Christian Baron" class="attachment-large" height="366" src="http://www.designplayground.it/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Christian-Baron.jpeg" title="Christian Baron" width="500" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;     &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a class="lightbox cboxElement" href="http://www.designplayground.it/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Donnel-Barroso.jpeg" rel="lightbox[cleaner-gallery-1]" title="Donnel Barroso"&gt;&lt;img alt="Donnel Barroso" class="attachment-large" height="640" src="http://www.designplayground.it/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Donnel-Barroso.jpeg" title="Donnel Barroso" width="449" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;     &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a class="lightbox cboxElement" href="http://www.designplayground.it/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Doug-SwitalskiBeca-Skeels.jpeg" rel="lightbox[cleaner-gallery-1]" title="Doug SwitalskiBeca Skeels"&gt;&lt;img alt="Doug SwitalskiBeca Skeels" class="attachment-large" height="382" src="http://www.designplayground.it/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Doug-SwitalskiBeca-Skeels.jpeg" title="Doug SwitalskiBeca Skeels" width="500" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;     &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a class="lightbox cboxElement" href="http://www.designplayground.it/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/DSC_8410111111.jpeg" rel="lightbox[cleaner-gallery-1]" title="DSC_8410111111"&gt;&lt;img alt="DSC_8410111111" class="attachment-large" height="376" src="http://www.designplayground.it/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/DSC_8410111111.jpeg" title="DSC_8410111111" width="500" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;     &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a class="lightbox cboxElement" href="http://www.designplayground.it/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/giuliabaldini.jpeg" rel="lightbox[cleaner-gallery-1]" title="giuliabaldini"&gt;&lt;img alt="giuliabaldini" class="attachment-large" height="333" src="http://www.designplayground.it/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/giuliabaldini.jpeg" title="giuliabaldini" width="500" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;     &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a class="lightbox cboxElement" href="http://www.designplayground.it/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/IMG_8583.jpeg" rel="lightbox[cleaner-gallery-1]" title="IMG_8583"&gt;&lt;img alt="IMG_8583" 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src="http://www.designplayground.it/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Mudasser-Ali-.jpeg" title="Mudasser Ali" width="500" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;     &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a class="lightbox cboxElement" href="http://www.designplayground.it/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Nat%C3%A1lia-Leal.jpeg" rel="lightbox[cleaner-gallery-1]" title="Natália Leal"&gt;&lt;img alt="Natália Leal" class="attachment-large" height="333" src="http://www.designplayground.it/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Nat%C3%A1lia-Leal.jpeg" title="Natália Leal" width="500" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;     &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a class="lightbox cboxElement" href="http://www.designplayground.it/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/nateluke02.jpeg" rel="lightbox[cleaner-gallery-1]" title="nateluke02"&gt;&lt;img alt="nateluke02" class="attachment-large" height="374" src="http://www.designplayground.it/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/nateluke02.jpeg" title="nateluke02" width="500" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;     &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a class="lightbox cboxElement" 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src="http://www.designplayground.it/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/ryan-hahn.jpeg" title="ryan hahn" width="500" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;     &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a class="lightbox cboxElement" href="http://www.designplayground.it/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/seancrowley.jpeg" rel="lightbox[cleaner-gallery-1]" title="seancrowley"&gt;&lt;img alt="seancrowley" class="attachment-large" height="306" src="http://www.designplayground.it/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/seancrowley.jpeg" title="seancrowley" width="500" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;     &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a class="lightbox cboxElement" href="http://www.designplayground.it/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Steffie.jpeg" rel="lightbox[cleaner-gallery-1]" title="Steffie"&gt;&lt;img alt="Steffie" class="attachment-large" height="333" src="http://www.designplayground.it/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Steffie.jpeg" title="Steffie" width="500" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;     &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a class="lightbox cboxElement" 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src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hV709USIotE/TuoCHG8pS3I/AAAAAAAAAk4/hDtfiPnFwh8/s220/CristinaProfilo.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4052446112609185980.post-9138603232584847128</id><published>2011-09-06T11:00:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2011-09-06T11:00:07.206+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='immaginario'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='barbie'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='fotografia'/><title type='text'>Sull'inversione del mondo paradisiaco della Barbie</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.fubiz.net/2011/08/05/barbie-in-real-life/268656_10150329490056015_19626416014_9716989_201065_n/" rel="attachment wp-att-179988" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img alt="268656_10150329490056015_19626416014_9716989_201065_n" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-179988" height="317" src="http://www.fubiz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/268656_10150329490056015_19626416014_9716989_201065_n-550x546.jpg" title="268656_10150329490056015_19626416014_9716989_201065_n" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La famosissima (e deleteria per generazioni di adolescenti) immagine di perfezione e femminilità di Barbie è stata già ampiamente criticata, così come resa oggetto di parodie e dileggi in ogni ambito (si pensi al video di Pink &lt;a href="http://youtu.be/BR4yQFZK9YM"&gt;Stupid Girl&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La fotografa &lt;a href="http://www.thephotographymarielclayton.com/"&gt;Mariel Clayton&lt;/a&gt; attua però un'inversione sostanziale del mondo paradisiaco che circonda la bambola della Mattel.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name='more'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;La serie intitolata “Bad Barbie” colloca infatti l'icona (di volta in volta donna esibizionista, ninfomane, perversa, bulimica, assassina, suicida) in una quotidianità problematica, emotivamente sconcertante, spesso squallida, e infine ansiogena sino alla violenza domestica dal sapore splatter.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.fubiz.net/2011/08/05/barbie-in-real-life/"&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-179990" height="239" src="http://www.fubiz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/pms-550x412.jpg" title="" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.fubiz.net/2011/08/05/barbie-in-real-life/system-error/" rel="attachment wp-att-179991"&gt;&lt;img alt="system-error" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-179991" height="235" src="http://www.fubiz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/system-error-550x404.jpg" title="system-error" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.fubiz.net/2011/08/05/barbie-in-real-life/223024_10150331925831015_19626416014_9746371_2720991_n/" rel="attachment wp-att-179989"&gt;&lt;img alt="223024_10150331925831015_19626416014_9746371_2720991_n" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-179989" height="320" src="http://www.fubiz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/223024_10150331925831015_19626416014_9746371_2720991_n-550x554.jpg" title="223024_10150331925831015_19626416014_9746371_2720991_n" width="317" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.fubiz.net/2011/08/05/barbie-in-real-life/268656_10150329490056015_19626416014_9716989_201065_n/" rel="attachment wp-att-179988" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.fubiz.net/2011/08/05/barbie-in-real-life/284738_10150334093506015_19626416014_9768577_1846755_n/" rel="attachment wp-att-179987"&gt;&lt;img alt="284738_10150334093506015_19626416014_9768577_1846755_n" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-179987" height="224" src="http://www.fubiz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/284738_10150334093506015_19626416014_9768577_1846755_n-550x386.jpg" title="284738_10150334093506015_19626416014_9768577_1846755_n" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.fubiz.net/2011/08/05/barbie-in-real-life/285452_10150328565601015_19626416014_9708722_6063763_n/" rel="attachment wp-att-179986"&gt;&lt;img alt="285452_10150328565601015_19626416014_9708722_6063763_n" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-179986" height="315" src="http://www.fubiz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/285452_10150328565601015_19626416014_9708722_6063763_n-550x543.jpg" title="285452_10150328565601015_19626416014_9708722_6063763_n" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.fubiz.net/2011/08/05/barbie-in-real-life/285167_10150326251506015_19626416014_9687928_1091531_n/" rel="attachment wp-att-179984"&gt;&lt;img alt="285167_10150326251506015_19626416014_9687928_1091531_n" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-179984" height="320" src="http://www.fubiz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/285167_10150326251506015_19626416014_9687928_1091531_n-550x553.jpg" title="285167_10150326251506015_19626416014_9687928_1091531_n" width="318" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.fubiz.net/2011/08/05/barbie-in-real-life/215798_10150229396741015_19626416014_8775939_1968936_n/" rel="attachment wp-att-179983"&gt;&lt;img alt="215798_10150229396741015_19626416014_8775939_1968936_n" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-179983" height="317" src="http://www.fubiz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/215798_10150229396741015_19626416014_8775939_1968936_n-550x546.jpg" title="215798_10150229396741015_19626416014_8775939_1968936_n" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.fubiz.net/2011/08/05/barbie-in-real-life/259889_10150323620181015_19626416014_9656741_2891685_n/" rel="attachment wp-att-179981"&gt;&lt;img alt="259889_10150323620181015_19626416014_9656741_2891685_n" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-179981" height="319" src="http://www.fubiz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/259889_10150323620181015_19626416014_9656741_2891685_n-550x549.jpg" title="259889_10150323620181015_19626416014_9656741_2891685_n" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.fubiz.net/2011/08/05/barbie-in-real-life/248269_10150262418931015_19626416014_9091165_7991410_n/" rel="attachment wp-att-179979"&gt;&lt;img alt="248269_10150262418931015_19626416014_9091165_7991410_n" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-179979" height="320" src="http://www.fubiz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/248269_10150262418931015_19626416014_9091165_7991410_n-550x561.jpg" title="248269_10150262418931015_19626416014_9091165_7991410_n" width="313" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.fubiz.net/2011/08/05/barbie-in-real-life/barbie09/" rel="attachment wp-att-179978"&gt;&lt;img alt="barbie09" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-179978" height="253" src="http://www.fubiz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/barbie09-550x435.jpg" title="barbie09" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.fubiz.net/2011/08/05/barbie-in-real-life/barbie04/" rel="attachment wp-att-179977"&gt;&lt;img alt="barbie04" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-179977" height="226" src="http://www.fubiz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/barbie04-550x390.jpg" title="barbie04" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.fubiz.net/2011/08/05/barbie-in-real-life/mariel-clayton-barbie-15/" rel="attachment wp-att-179994"&gt;&lt;img alt="mariel-clayton-barbie-15" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-179994" height="285" src="http://www.fubiz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/mariel-clayton-barbie-15-550x491.jpg" title="mariel-clayton-barbie-15" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.fubiz.net/2011/08/05/barbie-in-real-life/letter-f-resize/" rel="attachment wp-att-179993"&gt;&lt;img alt="letter-f-resize" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-179993" height="249" src="http://www.fubiz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/letter-f-resize-550x429.jpg" title="letter-f-resize" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.fubiz.net/2011/08/05/barbie-in-real-life/letter-g-resize/" rel="attachment wp-att-179992"&gt;&lt;img alt="letter-g-resize" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-179992" height="215" src="http://www.fubiz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/letter-g-resize-550x371.jpg" title="letter-g-resize" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.fubiz.net/2011/08/05/barbie-in-real-life/barbie7/" rel="attachment wp-att-179976"&gt;&lt;img alt="barbie7" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-179976" height="235" src="http://www.fubiz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/barbie7-550x405.jpg" title="barbie7" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.fubiz.net/2011/08/05/barbie-in-real-life/barbie8/" rel="attachment wp-att-179975"&gt;&lt;img alt="barbie8" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-179975" height="320" src="http://www.fubiz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/barbie8-550x560.jpg" title="barbie8" width="314" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.fubiz.net/2011/08/05/barbie-in-real-life/barbie9/" rel="attachment wp-att-179974"&gt;&lt;img alt="barbie9" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-179974" height="242" src="http://www.fubiz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/barbie9-550x416.jpg" title="barbie9" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.fubiz.net/2011/08/05/barbie-in-real-life/barbie6/" rel="attachment wp-att-179973"&gt;&lt;img alt="barbie6" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-179973" height="185" src="http://www.fubiz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/barbie6-550x319.png" title="barbie6" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.fubiz.net/2011/08/05/barbie-in-real-life/barbie5/" rel="attachment wp-att-179972"&gt;&lt;img alt="barbie5" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-179972" height="307" src="http://www.fubiz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/barbie5-550x529.png" title="barbie5" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.fubiz.net/2011/08/05/barbie-in-real-life/barbie4/" rel="attachment wp-att-179971"&gt;&lt;img alt="barbie4" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-179971" height="304" src="http://www.fubiz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/barbie4-550x523.png" title="barbie4" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.fubiz.net/2011/08/05/barbie-in-real-life/barbie3/" rel="attachment wp-att-179970"&gt;&lt;img alt="barbie3" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-179970" height="298" src="http://www.fubiz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/barbie3-550x513.png" title="barbie3" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.fubiz.net/2011/08/05/barbie-in-real-life/barbie2/" rel="attachment wp-att-179969"&gt;&lt;img alt="barbie2" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-179969" height="320" src="http://www.fubiz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/barbie2-550x561.png" title="barbie2" width="313" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.fubiz.net/2011/08/05/barbie-in-real-life/barbie1/" rel="attachment wp-att-179968"&gt;&lt;img alt="barbie1" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-179968" height="316" src="http://www.fubiz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/barbie1.png" title="barbie1" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4052446112609185980-9138603232584847128?l=videoculture.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://videoculture.blogspot.com/feeds/9138603232584847128/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://videoculture.blogspot.com/2011/09/sullinversione-del-mondo-paradisiaco.html#comment-form' title='2 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4052446112609185980/posts/default/9138603232584847128'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4052446112609185980/posts/default/9138603232584847128'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://videoculture.blogspot.com/2011/09/sullinversione-del-mondo-paradisiaco.html' title='Sull&apos;inversione del mondo paradisiaco della Barbie'/><author><name>Cristina</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10320497324728266509</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hV709USIotE/TuoCHG8pS3I/AAAAAAAAAk4/hDtfiPnFwh8/s220/CristinaProfilo.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4052446112609185980.post-9092794917747103137</id><published>2011-08-01T11:00:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2011-08-01T11:00:10.806+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='fotografia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='arte'/><title type='text'>Cina allo specchio</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.feeldesain.com/feel/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/feeldesain-china-in-a-mirror.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img alt="feeldesain china in a mirror" border="0" class="attachment-big-thumb-article wp-post-image" height="202" src="http://www.feeldesain.com/feel/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/feeldesain-china-in-a-mirror.jpg" title="feeldesain china in a mirror" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Lo studio austriaco &lt;a href="http://www.olschinsky.at/"&gt;Atelier Olschinsky&lt;/a&gt; ha realizzato una raccolta di immagini fotografiche sulla Cina attuale specchiando sull'asse verticale l'immagine già elaborata con una sostenuta color correction e vari effetti anticanti).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Che ne dite del risultato? A me piace molto, e mi dà parimenti una certa ispirazione...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a name='more'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img alt="" height="400" src="http://behance.vo.llnwd.net/profiles/87704/projects/1677994/dda151b076b7d34e3284d861ac76596c.jpg" width="263" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img alt="" height="400" src="http://behance.vo.llnwd.net/profiles/87704/projects/1677994/e4d6438e0cd5a9466a6fbd4cff110d1c.jpg" width="263" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img alt="" height="400" src="http://behance.vo.llnwd.net/profiles/87704/projects/1677994/db9971ff9000e53be0356941567240e7.jpg" width="261" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img alt="" height="400" src="http://behance.vo.llnwd.net/profiles/87704/projects/1677994/3019b1aad36d6d95a74d9fe7545aeb15.jpg" width="266" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img alt="" height="400" src="http://behance.vo.llnwd.net/profiles/87704/projects/1677994/00c426ff1f417ee9418c7e4ae6046df9.jpg" width="255" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img alt="" height="400" src="http://behance.vo.llnwd.net/profiles/87704/projects/1677994/5c8967256a15f8f9643e2bdc1727bb58.jpg" width="266" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img alt="" height="400" src="http://behance.vo.llnwd.net/profiles/87704/projects/1677994/7abe7b87d6a28e73b7de0ee1ae407781.jpg" width="266" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4052446112609185980-9092794917747103137?l=videoculture.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://videoculture.blogspot.com/feeds/9092794917747103137/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://videoculture.blogspot.com/2011/08/cina-allo-specchio.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4052446112609185980/posts/default/9092794917747103137'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4052446112609185980/posts/default/9092794917747103137'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://videoculture.blogspot.com/2011/08/cina-allo-specchio.html' title='Cina allo specchio'/><author><name>Cristina</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10320497324728266509</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hV709USIotE/TuoCHG8pS3I/AAAAAAAAAk4/hDtfiPnFwh8/s220/CristinaProfilo.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4052446112609185980.post-3931372524213711813</id><published>2011-07-18T10:00:00.002+02:00</published><updated>2011-07-18T10:00:07.617+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='video'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='immigrazione'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='luoghi comuni'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Torino'/><title type='text'>Luoghi comuni su migranti, rom e nuovi cittadini: due video</title><content type='html'>Due documentari, realizzato a Torino rispettivamente nel 2010 e nel 2011, e resi disponibili gratuitamente online, che affrontano in entrambi i casi la questione dei &lt;b&gt;luoghi comuni&lt;/b&gt; dei quali sono oggetto migranti e rom - dove in molti casi stiamo riferendoci a nuovi cittadini italiani che patiscono stereotipi, pregiudizi o visioni estremamente datate della loro cultura da parte degli italiani.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name='more'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;iframe frameborder="0" height="225" src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/16559380?title=0&amp;amp;byline=0&amp;amp;portrait=0" width="400"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://vimeo.com/16559380"&gt;MANDIAMOLI A CASA i luoghi comuni&lt;/a&gt; from &lt;a href="http://vimeo.com/testardo"&gt;testardo&lt;/a&gt; on &lt;a href="http://vimeo.com/"&gt;Vimeo&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;iframe frameborder="0" height="225" src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/24865708?title=0&amp;amp;byline=0&amp;amp;portrait=0" width="400"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://vimeo.com/24865708"&gt;MANDIAMOLI A CASA #2 - i luoghi comuni&lt;/a&gt; from &lt;a href="http://vimeo.com/testardo"&gt;testardo&lt;/a&gt; on &lt;a href="http://vimeo.com/"&gt;Vimeo&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4052446112609185980-3931372524213711813?l=videoculture.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://videoculture.blogspot.com/feeds/3931372524213711813/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://videoculture.blogspot.com/2011/07/luoghi-comuni-su-migranti-rom-e-nuovi.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4052446112609185980/posts/default/3931372524213711813'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4052446112609185980/posts/default/3931372524213711813'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://videoculture.blogspot.com/2011/07/luoghi-comuni-su-migranti-rom-e-nuovi.html' title='Luoghi comuni su migranti, rom e nuovi cittadini: due video'/><author><name>Cristina</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10320497324728266509</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hV709USIotE/TuoCHG8pS3I/AAAAAAAAAk4/hDtfiPnFwh8/s220/CristinaProfilo.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4052446112609185980.post-8374164984955837807</id><published>2011-07-16T11:00:00.005+02:00</published><updated>2011-07-17T23:35:16.997+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='messico'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Santa Muerte'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='iconografia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='religione'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='altare'/><title type='text'>Un'introduzione a iconografia e figura della Santa Muerte</title><content type='html'>&lt;a class="image" href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Santa-muerte-nlaredo2.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="thumbimage" height="200" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0b/Santa-muerte-nlaredo2.jpg/300px-Santa-muerte-nlaredo2.jpg" width="150" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;La &lt;b&gt;Santa Muerte&lt;/b&gt; è una figura della religione popolare messicana equiparata a quella dei santi - mediatori tra l'essere umano e il divino.&lt;br /&gt;Culto essenzialmente urbano, emerge nel quartiere di Tepito di Città  del Messico - città 'di frontiera' dal quale nascono personaggi miseri  ed estremi che spesso saliranno alla ribalta dello sport, dello  spettacolo e anche del crimine messicani.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name='more'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;La sua iconografia e le sue peculiarità sono dovute al sincretismo di tre tradizioni:&lt;br /&gt;1) culto della morte precolombiano,&lt;br /&gt;2) concezioni occidentali mediovali e barocche della morte, e&lt;br /&gt;3) elementi della religione Yoruba, pure diffusa sul posto, originaria di Nigeria e Benin.&lt;br /&gt;Coloro che la venerano si dichiarano cristiani, e in particolare cattolici, mentre la Chiesa cattolica la interpreta in termini fortemente negativi, quindi sia non riconoscendola nel pantheon delle proprie figure sacre di riferimento, sia spingendosi talvolta a tentare di esorcizzarne (fallacemente) i suoi adepti.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La Santa Muerte si inserisce all'intero di un contesto culturale in cui il tema della morte è già fortemente presente nell'immaginario e nell'iconografia religiosa. Le sue origini non sono ancora state individuate, sebbene - almeno nell'ultimo secolo - vi siano numerose testimonianze dirette che sia stata venerata nelle case private e le informazioni su di lei - su come rivolgervisi, su cosa le si posse chiedere, su quali siano le sue peculiarità - siano state tramandate di donna in donna.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Za0oQmNX_uM/TdrRJ5_6ISI/AAAAAAAAAA4/s8kN0rLlcmg/s1600/santa.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="212" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Za0oQmNX_uM/TdrRJ5_6ISI/AAAAAAAAAA4/s8kN0rLlcmg/s320/santa.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Personaggio benevolo, viene chiamato con dolcezza dai suoi fedeli con espressioni quali "La Niña Blanca" (la bambina bianca) o "La flaquita" (la magrolina) e le sue statue - nonostante il classico simbolismo della morte come la falce in pugno, una bilancia e/o un globo terrestre in mano e la sua generale aria sinistra - vestite e ornate con affetto nei colori rappresentativi di altrettante caratteristiche della sua figura o dei suoi poteri e ambiti di azione: nero, rosso, verde, bianco, giallo e dorato, argento, blu-celeste, viola. A seconda dei suoi diversi colori sarebbe invocata per un male specifico, o per risolvere un determinato problema. Per esempio: rosso per l'amore; verde per il lavoro o problemi giuridico-legali; giallo per i soldi, e così via.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://galeon.com/santamuerteenpuebla/altarcasa.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://galeon.com/santamuerteenpuebla/altarcasa.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Anche i suoi altari sono estremamente ricchi: oltre alla statua della Santa vestita e adornata anche con copricapi e collane, trovano posto bottiglie di liquori locali (birra, rum, mezcal), sigari/sigarette (anche accesi), cioccolato, ceri accesi (la luce deve sempre risplendere), incensi, fiori, e altre offerte votive.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Considerata dai suoi seguaci la figura intermedia più potente e più vicina a Dio, i più votati a essa sono criminali, deliquenti o, comunque, persone che conducano una vita pericolosa. Uno degli aspetti per il quale il governo messicano sembri si trovi più in difficoltà all'accettazione ufficiale e 'formale' di questa religione-culto riguarda l'appartenenza di singoli devoti, a volte anche importanti, ai narcos. Per cui, sembrerebbe quasi di dar loro anche un'accettazione e riconoscimento ufficiali del proprio stile di vita - cosa ovviamente inaccettabile.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Video e musiche presenti anche su YouTube vi confermano tale legame, per un culto del quale siamo assistendo alla strutturazione, alla dimensione pubblica, e al concretizzarsi di relazioni con il pre-esistenze da meno di 10 anni (tanto recente è infatti la sua visibilità pubblica, dovuta a una fedele che per prima, pochi anni orsono, esposte una statua della Santa Muerte a grandezza naturale sul balcone al pian terreno della propria casa a Tepito, rendendo quel luogo a metà tra pubblico e privato uno spazio sacro, e, di fatto, involontariamente emancipando il culto della Santa dalla relativa segretezza cui era stata sottoposta sino ad allora.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Per approfondimenti: &lt;a href="http://latinoamericaexpress.blog.unita.it/dialoghi-con-la-santa-muerte-a-tepito-barrio-bravo-di-citta-del-messico-1.39648"&gt;intervista ad Alfonso Hernàndez di Fabrizio Lorusso&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4052446112609185980-8374164984955837807?l=videoculture.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://videoculture.blogspot.com/feeds/8374164984955837807/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://videoculture.blogspot.com/2011/07/unintroduzione-iconografia-e-figura.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4052446112609185980/posts/default/8374164984955837807'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4052446112609185980/posts/default/8374164984955837807'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://videoculture.blogspot.com/2011/07/unintroduzione-iconografia-e-figura.html' title='Un&apos;introduzione a iconografia e figura della Santa Muerte'/><author><name>Cristina</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10320497324728266509</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hV709USIotE/TuoCHG8pS3I/AAAAAAAAAk4/hDtfiPnFwh8/s220/CristinaProfilo.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Za0oQmNX_uM/TdrRJ5_6ISI/AAAAAAAAAA4/s8kN0rLlcmg/s72-c/santa.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4052446112609185980.post-6164802619888374287</id><published>2011-07-14T17:53:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2011-07-17T23:34:58.858+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='contemporaneità'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='street art'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='monumenti'/><title type='text'>Street Art - Reinterpretazione pop di monumento ai caduti</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.artsblog.it/galleria/street-art-in-bulgaria-a-sofia-i-supereroi-invadono-il-monumento-ai-caduti-russi/" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img alt="Street art in Bulgaria: a Sofia i supereroi invadono il monumento ai caduti russi" class="post" height="131" src="http://static.blogo.it/artsblog/street-art-in-bulgaria-a-sofia-i-supereroi-invadono-il-monumento-ai-caduti-russi/sofiacommuniststreetart5.jpg" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A metà giugno a Sofia, in Bulgaria, un  anonimo street artist ha  colorato un monumento ai caduti sovietici trasformando anonimi  soldati in alcuni tra i personaggi più famosi dei fumetti e della fantasia:  Superman in stivali di pelle rossa, Capitan American, il Joker, Robin, il  pagliaccio del MacDonald e Babbo Natale intento a guardare in un binocolo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name='more'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;L’operazione è stata effettuata nottetempo e, quando le foto sono state  diffuse, le autorità russe non l'hanno presa molto bene, accusando l'anonimo autore di affronto  nei confronti dei soldati dell’Armata Rossa, caduti in nome della  liberazione della Bulgaria e dell’Europa dal nazismo. Ma l’artista non intendeva offendere nessuno, come da didascalia lasciata  sotto al monumento che recita “&lt;i&gt;Al passo con i tempi&lt;/i&gt;“.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Il monumento ora è stato ripulito, ma chissà se la questione si chiuderà qui: l'autore potrebbe infatti avere emuli ovunque, data la presenza di numerosi  monumenti russi sparsi per l’Europa dell’Est...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4052446112609185980-6164802619888374287?l=videoculture.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://videoculture.blogspot.com/feeds/6164802619888374287/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://videoculture.blogspot.com/2011/07/street-art-reinterpretazione-pop-di.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4052446112609185980/posts/default/6164802619888374287'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4052446112609185980/posts/default/6164802619888374287'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://videoculture.blogspot.com/2011/07/street-art-reinterpretazione-pop-di.html' title='Street Art - Reinterpretazione pop di monumento ai caduti'/><author><name>Cristina</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10320497324728266509</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hV709USIotE/TuoCHG8pS3I/AAAAAAAAAk4/hDtfiPnFwh8/s220/CristinaProfilo.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4052446112609185980.post-1427559001805275260</id><published>2011-07-05T11:38:00.002+02:00</published><updated>2011-07-17T23:36:29.622+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='video'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='censura'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='parola'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='libertà'/><title type='text'>La notte della rete contro la censura: la diretta qui!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.agoradigitale.org/sites/all/files/images/notteretesmall.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="200" src="http://www.agoradigitale.org/sites/all/files/images/notteretesmall.png" width="182" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://videoculture.blogspot.com/2011/07/io-non-intendo-tacere.html"&gt;Come già detto in questo blog&lt;/a&gt;, alcune persone sgradevoli stanno cercando di ridurre il web al silenzio con una delibera che li metterebbe nelle condizioni di rimuovere contenuti dai/e siti internet a loro piacimento - con la scusa di violazioni di copyright che neanche dovrebbero dimostrare/giustificare/notificare/dibattere col proprietario del sito e/o in sede legale, ma a loro unico arbitrario, unilaterale e insindacabile giudizio.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;a name='more'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Accanto a future possibili iniziative creative del tipo&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;darsi appuntamento per postare tutti sui nostri blog in contemporanea un video piratato e quindi autodenunciarci in massa all'AgCom chiedendo la rimozione di quel post - o ancora meglio fare ciò denunciandoci poi reciprocamente a catena, in modo tale da dare all'AgCom ancora più problemi - o&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;realizzare siti mirror del vostro anche solo aggiungendo un numero all'url che già avete ;-) [mettete intanto tutto in sicurezza...]&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;un nutrito gruppo di cittadini, associazioni in difesa del web, blogger, politici, giornalisti, artisti ed esperti si è dato appuntamento &lt;b&gt;oggi, alle 17:30, a Roma&lt;/b&gt;, per manifestare il proprio dissenso e spiegare a tutti che razza di scempio sta per essere perpetrato.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Chiunque abbia un blog o un sito web potrà trasmettere l'&lt;b&gt;evento in diretta streaming&lt;/b&gt; recuperando il codice &lt;a href="http://metilparaben.blogspot.com/"&gt;qui&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" height="296" width="480"&gt;  &lt;param name="flashvars" value="cid=5753450&amp;autoplay=false&amp;style=ub5D1719:lcCD311B:ocffffff:ucffffff"/&gt;&lt;param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"/&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"/&gt;&lt;param name="src" value="http://www.ustream.tv/flash/viewer.swf"/&gt;&lt;embed flashvars="cid=5753450&amp;autoplay=false&amp;style=ub5D1719:lcCD311B:ocffffff:ucffffff" width="480" height="296" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" src="http://www.ustream.tv/flash/viewer.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ustream.tv/" style="background: #ffffff; color: black; display: block; font-size: 10px; font-weight: normal; padding: 2px 0px 4px; text-align: center; text-decoration: underline; width: 400px;" target="_blank"&gt;Online video chat by Ustream&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Vi invito a farlo, tutti, e a contattare i blogger che conoscete affinché lo facciano anche loro: non importa che scriviate di politica, o di cucina, o di informatica, o di qualsiasi altro argomento dello scibile umano. Ci vogliono silenziare tutti. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Mettiamocela tutta per opporci! Ora e sempre resistenza e libertà.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4052446112609185980-1427559001805275260?l=videoculture.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://videoculture.blogspot.com/feeds/1427559001805275260/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://videoculture.blogspot.com/2011/07/la-notte-della-rete-contro-la-censura.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4052446112609185980/posts/default/1427559001805275260'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4052446112609185980/posts/default/1427559001805275260'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://videoculture.blogspot.com/2011/07/la-notte-della-rete-contro-la-censura.html' title='La notte della rete contro la censura: la diretta qui!'/><author><name>Cristina</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10320497324728266509</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hV709USIotE/TuoCHG8pS3I/AAAAAAAAAk4/hDtfiPnFwh8/s220/CristinaProfilo.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4052446112609185980.post-1106002672868203592</id><published>2011-07-01T16:23:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2011-07-17T23:38:02.325+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='blog'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='censura'/><title type='text'>Io non intendo tacere!</title><content type='html'>In estrema sintesi sta succedendo questo: il 6 luglio l'AgCom voterà una  delibera con cui si arrogherà il potere di oscurare siti internet  stranieri e di rimuovere contenuti da quelli italiani, in modo  arbitrario e senza il vaglio del giudice.&lt;br /&gt;Siccome, con ogni evidenza, si tratta di una misura degna dei peggiori  regimi, sarebbe il caso di rimboccarsi le maniche per evitare che venga  approvata.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name='more'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Cosa puoi fare: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;se sei un blogger &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;scrivi un post&lt;/span&gt;, usando il logo che vedi qua sopra e riportando tutti i link, e diffondilo più che puoi tra quelli che conosci; &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;vai&lt;/span&gt; alla &lt;a href="http://www.agoradigitale.org/nocensura" target="_blank"&gt;pagina di Agorà Digitale&lt;/a&gt; in cui sono raccolti tutti i link, le iniziative e le proposte dei cittadini; &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;firma e diffondi&lt;/span&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.avaaz.org/it/it_internet_bavaglio" target="_blank"&gt;la petizione sul sito di Avaaz&lt;/a&gt;; &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;partecipa e invita&lt;/span&gt; tutti i tuoi amici a "&lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=186527864733678"&gt;La notte della rete&lt;/a&gt;": 4 ore no-stop in cui si alterneranno cittadini e associazioni in difesa del web, politici, giornalisti, cantanti, esperti. &lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;Mi sa che è ora di darsi da fare: altrimenti tra poco rischiamo di essere cancellati.&lt;br /&gt;A me la prospettiva non piace per niente.&lt;br /&gt;E a voi?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4052446112609185980-1106002672868203592?l=videoculture.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://videoculture.blogspot.com/feeds/1106002672868203592/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://videoculture.blogspot.com/2011/07/io-non-intendo-tacere.html#comment-form' title='1 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4052446112609185980/posts/default/1106002672868203592'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4052446112609185980/posts/default/1106002672868203592'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://videoculture.blogspot.com/2011/07/io-non-intendo-tacere.html' title='Io non intendo tacere!'/><author><name>Cristina</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10320497324728266509</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hV709USIotE/TuoCHG8pS3I/AAAAAAAAAk4/hDtfiPnFwh8/s220/CristinaProfilo.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4052446112609185980.post-9112104788748046209</id><published>2011-06-06T10:00:00.002+02:00</published><updated>2011-07-17T23:38:25.916+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='antropologia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='potere'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='fotografia'/><title type='text'>"Bureaucratics" di Jan Banning</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.janbanning.com/"&gt;Jan Banning&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; è autore del progetto &lt;b&gt;Bureaucratics &lt;/b&gt;(2008) ch'egli racconta come realizzato da una persona dal cuore di un anarchico, dalla mente di uno storico e dall'occhio di un artista.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Si tratta di uno studio fotografico comparativo di riti e simboli della cultura delle amministrazioni dello stato civile e dei suoi dipendenti in otto paesi dei cinque continenti, selezionati sulla base di considerazioni poliche, storiche e culturali: Bolivia, Cina, Francia, India, Liberia, Russia , gli Stati Uniti, e Yemen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;a name='more'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;In ogni paese, Banning ha visitato centinaia di uffici dei membri del potere esecutivo in servizi diversi e a diversi livelli. Le visite sono state preannunciate e lo scrittore di accompagnamento, Will Tinnemans, ne ha intervistato i dipendenti. In questo modo, le foto mostrano ciò che un cittadino locale si troverebbe di fronte quando si entra.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Le foto hanno tutte un formato quadrato, vengono effettuate dalla stessa altezza (quella del cliente), con il banco come baluardo a protezione al rappresentante del governo e strategia di relazione nei confronti del cittadino. E sebbene ci sia un alto grado di umorismo e di assurdità nelle immagini realizzater, esse nondimento possono offrirci stimoli di riflessione su elementi sui quali a proma vista non ci cadremme l'attenzione, sebbene proprio quei dettagli, talvolta, sono parte delle strategie con le quali lo Stato proclama il proprio potere.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" height="319" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://janbanning.photoshelter.com/swf/CSlideShow.swf?f_sln=t&amp;imgT=f&amp;cred=iptc&amp;feedSRC=http%3A//janbanning.photoshelter.com/gallery/Bureaucratics/G0000zdwbhHiQdUI%3Ffeed%3Djson&amp;trans=fade&amp;wmds=llQ6QNgpeC.p1Ucz7U.Y4gYN2ENbLQdTCGeXkfryoMHX8a7mYOxK5vJmwwAd.AElHdheAw--&amp;f_link=t&amp;f_smooth=t&amp;f_mtrx=t&amp;tbs=5000&amp;f_l=t&amp;f_fscr=t&amp;f_ap=f&amp;f_tb=t&amp;f_up=f&amp;f_bb=t&amp;btype=new&amp;f_bbl=f&amp;target=_self&amp;f_fss=f&amp;bcolor=%23CCCCCC&amp;f_2up=f&amp;f_crp=f&amp;f_wm=f&amp;f_s2f=t&amp;f_emb=t&amp;f_cap=t"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;!--[if !IE]&gt;&lt;!--&gt;&lt;object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://janbanning.photoshelter.com/swf/CSlideShow.swf?f_sln=t&amp;imgT=f&amp;cred=iptc&amp;feedSRC=http%3A//janbanning.photoshelter.com/gallery/Bureaucratics/G0000zdwbhHiQdUI%3Ffeed%3Djson&amp;trans=fade&amp;wmds=llQ6QNgpeC.p1Ucz7U.Y4gYN2ENbLQdTCGeXkfryoMHX8a7mYOxK5vJmwwAd.AElHdheAw--&amp;f_link=t&amp;f_smooth=t&amp;f_mtrx=t&amp;tbs=5000&amp;f_l=t&amp;f_fscr=t&amp;f_ap=f&amp;f_tb=t&amp;f_up=f&amp;f_bb=t&amp;btype=new&amp;f_bbl=f&amp;target=_self&amp;f_fss=f&amp;bcolor=%23CCCCCC&amp;f_2up=f&amp;f_crp=f&amp;f_wm=f&amp;f_s2f=t&amp;f_emb=t&amp;f_cap=t" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="425" height="319"&gt;"&lt;!--&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;a href="http://janbanning.photoshelter.com/gallery/Bureaucratics/G0000zdwbhHiQdUI"&gt;&lt;img src="http://janbanning.photoshelter.com/gal-kimg-get/G0000zdwbhHiQdUI/s/733/550"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;!--[if !IE]&gt;&lt;!--&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;!--&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://janbanning.photoshelter.com/gallery/Bureaucratics/G0000zdwbhHiQdUI"&gt;Bureaucratics&lt;/a&gt; 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di Jan Banning'/><author><name>Cristina</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10320497324728266509</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hV709USIotE/TuoCHG8pS3I/AAAAAAAAAk4/hDtfiPnFwh8/s220/CristinaProfilo.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4052446112609185980.post-5025122135233629011</id><published>2011-05-11T16:39:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2011-07-17T23:37:33.352+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='pirateria'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='nave'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='attivismo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Swoon'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='arte'/><title type='text'>Arte, attivismo, materiali di scarto: i vascelli pirata di Swoon</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-9H7NC3vY1hM/TcqahYnHPcI/AAAAAAAAAVA/WbfrgUqX2_c/s1600/4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="212" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-9H7NC3vY1hM/TcqahYnHPcI/AAAAAAAAAVA/WbfrgUqX2_c/s320/4.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="long_text" id="result_box"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white;" title="Swoon began her career as a street artist and, while her work is now also shown in galleries and museums, she remains dedicated to presenting her life-size depictions of individuals in abandoned public spaces."&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swoon_%28artist%29"&gt;Swoon&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; (vero nome &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Caledonia Dance Curry) è un'artista originaria di Daytona Beach, Florida, che &lt;span class="long_text" id="result_box"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white;" title="Swoon began her career as a street artist and, while her work is now also shown in galleries and museums, she remains dedicated to presenting her life-size depictions of individuals in abandoned public spaces."&gt;ha iniziato la propria carriera come artista di strada. Il suo interesse è centrato sulla rappresentazione di persone che abitano luoghi abbandonati o ai margini della società &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white;" title="Her primary subject is the people who inhabit this space – from children to street vendors to musicians – engaged in everyday activities."&gt;- bambini, ambulanti, musicisti, senzatetto - che vengono ritratti &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="long_text" id="result_box"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white;" title="Her primary subject is the people who inhabit this space – from children to street vendors to musicians – engaged in everyday activities."&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="long_text" id="result_box"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white;" title="Her primary subject is the people who inhabit this space – from children to street vendors to musicians – engaged in everyday activities."&gt;in &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="long_text" id="result_box"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white;" title="Printed with woodblock and linoleum cut on newsprint or recycled materials (or unique cut-outs of the same paper), Swoon's portraits are energetic, expressionistic, and deeply human."&gt; stampe su carta da giornale o materiali  riciclati &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="long_text" id="result_box"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white;" title="Her primary subject is the people who inhabit this space – from children to street vendors to musicians – engaged in everyday activities."&gt;a grandezza naturale&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="long_text" id="result_box"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white;" title="Printed with woodblock and linoleum cut on newsprint or recycled materials (or unique cut-outs of the same paper), Swoon's portraits are energetic, expressionistic, and deeply human."&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="long_text" id="result_box"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white;" title="Her primary subject is the people who inhabit this space – from children to street vendors to musicians – engaged in everyday activities."&gt;. Ma la rappresentazione è l'antitesi del pietistico, e mostra individui appassionati e pieni d'energia così come è la mano che li ritrae.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name='more'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="long_text" id="result_box"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white;" title="Originally, she posted her work in what she calls “third spaces” – walls and surfaces in the public arena that form the urban landscape – in an effort to break out of what she viewed as the lifeless and closed system of high-brow art culture"&gt;Originariamente Swoon si esprimeva unicamente in strada, nell'ottica di &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white;" title="Instead, she wanted to create art that was participatory and democratic."&gt;promuovere un'arte partecipata e democratica&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white;" title="We're telling advertisers, 'Hey, if you have something to say, that's fine, but if anyone else has something to say, they can also say it'…It's about opening the conversation” (interview for The Morning News, September 29"&gt; in cui tutti potessero dire la loro: "si tratta  di aprire la conversazione", come affermò in un'intervista al The Morning News [29  settembre &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title=", 2004)."&gt;2004]. Ora, accanto a tale scelta, l'artista &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="long_text" id="result_box"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white;" title="Swoon began her career as a street artist and, while her work is now also shown in galleries and museums, she remains dedicated to presenting her life-size depictions of individuals in abandoned public spaces."&gt;esibisce le proprie opere anche in gallerie e musei - soluzione che le permette di portare nelle cattedrali dell'arte e del mercato le vite della strada cui lei interessa dare visibilità. E' questo il caso del lavoro &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.scribemedia.org/2008/06/17/swoon-brings-juarez-to-chelsea/"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Portrait of Silvia Elena&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; - memoriale della 17enne Silvia Elena Rivera  Morales uccisa nel 1995 a Juarez, Mexico&lt;span class="long_text" id="result_box"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white;" title="Swoon began her career as a street artist and, while her work is now also shown in galleries and museums, she remains dedicated to presenting her life-size depictions of individuals in abandoned public spaces."&gt; (uno dei primi omicidi di donne &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="long_text" id="result_box"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white;" title="Swoon began her career as a street artist and, while her work is now also shown in galleries and museums, she remains dedicated to presenting her life-size depictions of individuals in abandoned public spaces."&gt;irrisolti &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="long_text" id="result_box"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white;" title="Swoon began her career as a street artist and, while her work is now also shown in galleries and museums, she remains dedicated to presenting her life-size depictions of individuals in abandoned public spaces."&gt;nell'area negli ultimi 10 anni) - commissionato ed esibito alla galleria Honeyspace in Chelsea.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; I due spazi 'espositivi', per così dire, convivono, e in entrambi i casi si concretizzano nella scelta dell'artista di promuovere progetti sempre più collaborativi.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rn3tT6HFQqI/Tcqb9J3enTI/AAAAAAAAAVI/g9KsQjo3QBQ/s1600/12.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="213" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rn3tT6HFQqI/Tcqb9J3enTI/AAAAAAAAAVI/g9KsQjo3QBQ/s320/12.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="long_text" id="result_box"&gt;&lt;span title=", 2004)."&gt;Tra questi, uno estremamente interessante è la rivisitazione giocosa e anarcoide dei vascelli pirata nell'opera - anche performativa &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: transparent; background-image: none; border-collapse: collapse; border: 0pt none; clear: none; color: inherit; cursor: auto; display: inline; float: none; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0pt; outline: medium none; padding: 0pt; position: relative; text-decoration: inherit; text-indent: 0pt; text-transform: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: inherit; word-spacing: inherit;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: transparent; background-image: none; border-collapse: collapse; border: 0pt none; clear: none; color: inherit; cursor: auto; display: inline; float: none; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0pt; outline: medium none; padding: 0pt; position: relative; text-decoration: inherit; text-indent: 0pt; text-transform: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: inherit; word-spacing: inherit;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.scribemedia.org/2008/10/10/swimming-cities-of-switchback-sea/"&gt;Swimming Cities of Switchback Sea&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="long_text" id="result_box"&gt;&lt;span title=", 2004)."&gt;, che in Italia abbiamo potuto ammirare un paio d'anni orsono nella creazione ad hoc &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="long_text" id="result_box"&gt;&lt;span title=", 2004)."&gt;&lt;b&gt;The Swimming Cities of Serenissima&lt;/b&gt; (2009): &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="long_text" id="result_box"&gt;&lt;span title=", 2004)."&gt;tre zattere/navi costruite interamente con materiali recuperati in una discarica nella vicina Slovenia. Con queste zattere lei e la sua ciurma sono approdati alla Biennale di Venezia e hanno percorso in notturna il Canal Grande,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white;" title="The most infamous of these was The Swimming Cities of Serenissima, 2009, in which she and several others crashed the Venice Biennale by water, performed nightly in the canals, and stormed the Grand Canal at 3:00 am"&gt; per poi abitare sulla stessa alcuni giorni durante lo svolgimento della manifestazione artistica. L'appassionante racconto dell'esperienza lo trovate qui: &lt;a href="http://nymag.com/arts/art/features/57181/"&gt;Barging In To Venice&lt;/a&gt;, articolo dal quale ho tratto alcune delle bellissime immagini che vi propongo.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="long_text" id="result_box"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white;" title="The most infamous of these was The Swimming Cities of Serenissima, 2009, in which she and several others crashed the Venice Biennale by water, performed nightly in the canals, and stormed the Grand Canal at 3:00 am"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-vRqv1SEgX3w/TcqcA8hzX4I/AAAAAAAAAVo/5EJJfiKb_xI/s1600/2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="213" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-vRqv1SEgX3w/TcqcA8hzX4I/AAAAAAAAAVo/5EJJfiKb_xI/s320/2.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-S3qDbZ3YiNE/Tcqb_HhCSoI/AAAAAAAAAVY/0utRJoWkV7A/s1600/8.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="213" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-S3qDbZ3YiNE/Tcqb_HhCSoI/AAAAAAAAAVY/0utRJoWkV7A/s320/8.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4052446112609185980-5025122135233629011?l=videoculture.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://videoculture.blogspot.com/feeds/5025122135233629011/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://videoculture.blogspot.com/2011/05/arte-attivismo-materiali-di-scarto-i.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4052446112609185980/posts/default/5025122135233629011'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4052446112609185980/posts/default/5025122135233629011'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://videoculture.blogspot.com/2011/05/arte-attivismo-materiali-di-scarto-i.html' title='Arte, attivismo, materiali di scarto: i vascelli pirata di Swoon'/><author><name>Cristina</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10320497324728266509</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hV709USIotE/TuoCHG8pS3I/AAAAAAAAAk4/hDtfiPnFwh8/s220/CristinaProfilo.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-9H7NC3vY1hM/TcqahYnHPcI/AAAAAAAAAVA/WbfrgUqX2_c/s72-c/4.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4052446112609185980.post-4089453543706801791</id><published>2011-04-22T16:01:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2011-07-17T18:57:08.144+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Lin Onus'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='aborigeni'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='arte'/><title type='text'>Lin Onus, artista aborigeno</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Mj8bb5ePIT0/TbGG24EIL4I/AAAAAAAAAUo/hxKVPtWey0A/s1600/lin_onus.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="212" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Mj8bb5ePIT0/TbGG24EIL4I/AAAAAAAAAUo/hxKVPtWey0A/s320/lin_onus.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span lang="it"&gt;Lin Onus (1948-1996) è stato un artista australiano impegnato a colmare il divario  tra Australia urbana e tradizionale, indigena e bianca, attraverso opere che prevedono il ricordo a diverse tecniche e materiali così come a codici interpretativi &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span lang="it"&gt;multipli.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span lang="it"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a name='more'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span lang="it"&gt;Nato  a Victoria (AUS) nel 1948, figlio unico di madre scozzese e padre aborigeno, i suoi genitori sono &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span lang="it"&gt;attivisti nella campagna  elettorale per riconoscimenti di diritti degli aborigeni, ed egli è circondato sin dall'infanzia&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span lang="it"&gt; dall'arte classica e dalla musica per discendenza materna, così come lavora al fianco del padre nel business di manufatti aborigeni e  souvenir rimanendo in tal modo influenzato da entrambe le tradizioni culturali.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span lang="it"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span lang="it"&gt;Onus  incorpora quindi una gamma diversificata di strumenti, materiali, metodi e stili nel suo  lavoro&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="it"&gt;, usa di pittura, incisione, fumetto, illustrazione, murales, manifesti e sculture.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-LUH-jgPS_X8/TbGInnqlVyI/AAAAAAAAAUs/7KI2S7xsQNs/s1600/Onus_maralinga2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="268" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-LUH-jgPS_X8/TbGInnqlVyI/AAAAAAAAAUs/7KI2S7xsQNs/s320/Onus_maralinga2.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt; 'Maralinga' (1990) ritrae u&lt;span lang="it"&gt;na  madre e suo figlio, fragili come cenere, investiti dall'esplosione di una  bomba atomica a Maralinga nel deserto del South Australia.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4052446112609185980-4089453543706801791?l=videoculture.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://videoculture.blogspot.com/feeds/4089453543706801791/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://videoculture.blogspot.com/2011/04/lin-onus-1948-1996-e-stato-un-artista.html#comment-form' title='3 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4052446112609185980/posts/default/4089453543706801791'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4052446112609185980/posts/default/4089453543706801791'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://videoculture.blogspot.com/2011/04/lin-onus-1948-1996-e-stato-un-artista.html' title='Lin Onus, artista aborigeno'/><author><name>Cristina</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10320497324728266509</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hV709USIotE/TuoCHG8pS3I/AAAAAAAAAk4/hDtfiPnFwh8/s220/CristinaProfilo.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Mj8bb5ePIT0/TbGG24EIL4I/AAAAAAAAAUo/hxKVPtWey0A/s72-c/lin_onus.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4052446112609185980.post-3030434877139476965</id><published>2011-04-19T10:35:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2011-04-19T10:35:22.332+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bellezza'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='arte'/><title type='text'>Ladri di bellezza: un blog di resistenza all'incedere del brutto</title><content type='html'>Da un mese alcuni blogger e loro amici si sono imbarcati da ogni dove della penisola nel &lt;i&gt;progetto di un blog col quale reagire alla miseria, allo squallore, alla mediocrità&lt;/i&gt; - in sintesi alla 'perversione' - del concetto di bellezza e umanità che da anni è stato effettuato sotto i nostri occhi e nostro malgrado da un certo tipo di soggetti con un'operazione che rasenta la propaganda.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oggi questo sito -&lt;b&gt; &lt;a href="http://ladridibellezza.blogspot.com/"&gt;Ladri di bellezza&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; - apre. &lt;b&gt;I 'ladri' posteranno liberamente&lt;/b&gt;, quando avranno tempo e voglia di fare colpi nella rete, &lt;b&gt;le cose che a loro piacciono, che trovano belle, felici, 'umane'&lt;/b&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Venite a visitarlo, scrivete i vostri commenti, vivetelo con noi. Usiamolo tutti per 'farci del bene' in questa società e in questo immaginario malati e in cui non ci riconosciamo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E proponete anche voi dei 'furti' - così da rendere sempre più ricco questo bottino collettivo di un altro immaginario.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Minerva &amp;amp; Cristina&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4052446112609185980-3030434877139476965?l=videoculture.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://videoculture.blogspot.com/feeds/3030434877139476965/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://videoculture.blogspot.com/2011/04/ladri-di-bellezza-un-blog-di-resistenza.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4052446112609185980/posts/default/3030434877139476965'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4052446112609185980/posts/default/3030434877139476965'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://videoculture.blogspot.com/2011/04/ladri-di-bellezza-un-blog-di-resistenza.html' title='Ladri di bellezza: un blog di resistenza all&apos;incedere del brutto'/><author><name>Cristina</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10320497324728266509</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hV709USIotE/TuoCHG8pS3I/AAAAAAAAAk4/hDtfiPnFwh8/s220/CristinaProfilo.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4052446112609185980.post-6489927700605084561</id><published>2011-04-14T11:59:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2011-04-14T11:59:30.043+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='donna'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='stanza'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='fotografia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ricerca sul campo'/><title type='text'>Una stanza tutta per sé</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Nata e cresciuta in Libano, &lt;a href="http://www.raniamatar.com/"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Rania Matar&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; si trasferisce negli Stati Uniti nel 1984. Originariamente architetto, studia in seguito fotografia documentaria - passione che diventerà professione e disciplina di insegnamento presso il Massachusetts College of Art and Design, ma anche nei campi profughi del Libano dove l'artista si reca periodicamente attraverso organizzazioni non governative.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Il lavoro di Rania Matar si concentra principalmente sulle donne e le questioni di genere, cercando di restituire la voce a chi è stato dimenticato o frainteso. Il suo ultimo progetto si intitola &lt;b&gt;Una ragazza e la sua stanza&lt;/b&gt;, ed è un'indagine fotografica multisituata (sinora tra vari paesi degli USA e Libano) delle modalità con le quali le adolescenti allestiscono e vivono il proprio spazio privato.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Nel vedere queste immagini non ho potuto non pensare a Virginia Woolf, e a quanto sia importante il fatto di avere una proprio spazio privato, una 'stanza tutta per sé'.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Non ho associato alle immagini riferimenti puntuali di nome, età e luogo - vi invito a vedere l'intera gallery sul sito e a continuare a seguirla e riflettervi sopra man mano che si svilupperà.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/--0I628H6LmE/TabAHmfHE1I/AAAAAAAAASo/M38HEz7Od9M/s1600/ragazzecamera1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="212" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-4tpND-upNjU/TabAl1VNSII/AAAAAAAAATQ/x-3x51P72HU/s320/ragazzecamera19.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4052446112609185980-6489927700605084561?l=videoculture.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://videoculture.blogspot.com/feeds/6489927700605084561/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://videoculture.blogspot.com/2011/04/una-stanza-tutta-per-se.html#comment-form' title='2 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4052446112609185980/posts/default/6489927700605084561'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4052446112609185980/posts/default/6489927700605084561'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://videoculture.blogspot.com/2011/04/una-stanza-tutta-per-se.html' title='Una stanza tutta per sé'/><author><name>Cristina</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10320497324728266509</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hV709USIotE/TuoCHG8pS3I/AAAAAAAAAk4/hDtfiPnFwh8/s220/CristinaProfilo.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/--0I628H6LmE/TabAHmfHE1I/AAAAAAAAASo/M38HEz7Od9M/s72-c/ragazzecamera1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4052446112609185980.post-1821242251532975122</id><published>2011-02-10T11:00:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2011-02-10T11:00:00.720+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='video'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='YouTube'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='antropologia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Wesch'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='media'/><title type='text'>Mike Wesch, "The Machine is (Changing) Us: YouTube and the Politics of Authenticity"</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;L'intervento di Mike Wesch al &lt;a href="http://personaldemocracy.com/pdf-conference/personal-democracy-forum-conference"&gt;Personal Democracy Forum&lt;/a&gt; presso il Jazz at Lincoln Center, a partire dai materiali di &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPAO-lZ4_hU"&gt;An Anthropological Introduction to YouTube&lt;/a&gt;. Buona visione!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe allowfullscreen="" class="youtube-player" frameborder="0" height="283" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/09gR6VPVrpw?rel=0" title="YouTube video player" type="text/html" width="460"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4052446112609185980-1821242251532975122?l=videoculture.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://videoculture.blogspot.com/feeds/1821242251532975122/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://videoculture.blogspot.com/2011/02/mike-wesch-machine-is-changing-us.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4052446112609185980/posts/default/1821242251532975122'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4052446112609185980/posts/default/1821242251532975122'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://videoculture.blogspot.com/2011/02/mike-wesch-machine-is-changing-us.html' title='Mike Wesch, &quot;The Machine is (Changing) Us: YouTube and the Politics of Authenticity&quot;'/><author><name>Cristina</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10320497324728266509</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hV709USIotE/TuoCHG8pS3I/AAAAAAAAAk4/hDtfiPnFwh8/s220/CristinaProfilo.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://img.youtube.com/vi/09gR6VPVrpw/default.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4052446112609185980.post-6153701695744076661</id><published>2011-02-07T11:00:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2011-02-07T11:00:13.962+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='antropologia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cambiamento culturale'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='media'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='partecipazione sociale'/><title type='text'>Participation Culture, Creativity, and Social Change</title><content type='html'>&lt;h3 class="post-title entry-title" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;div class="post-header"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border: medium none; text-align: justify;"&gt;Lezione inaugurale di David Gauntlett, professore di Media and Communications alla School of Media, Arts and  Design, &lt;a href="http://www.wmin.ac.uk/mad/page-561"&gt;University of Westminster&lt;/a&gt; e autore di &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://theoryhead.com/gender/"&gt;Media, Gender and Identity&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Una riflessione interessante e utile. Buona visione!&amp;nbsp; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border: medium none; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe allowfullscreen="" class="youtube-player" frameborder="0" height="375" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/MNqgXbI1_o8?rel=0" title="YouTube video player" type="text/html" width="460"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4052446112609185980-6153701695744076661?l=videoculture.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://videoculture.blogspot.com/feeds/6153701695744076661/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://videoculture.blogspot.com/2011/02/participation-culture-creativity-and.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4052446112609185980/posts/default/6153701695744076661'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4052446112609185980/posts/default/6153701695744076661'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://videoculture.blogspot.com/2011/02/participation-culture-creativity-and.html' title='Participation Culture, Creativity, and Social Change'/><author><name>Cristina</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10320497324728266509</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hV709USIotE/TuoCHG8pS3I/AAAAAAAAAk4/hDtfiPnFwh8/s220/CristinaProfilo.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://img.youtube.com/vi/MNqgXbI1_o8/default.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4052446112609185980.post-7088775946964098265</id><published>2011-02-05T12:22:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2011-02-05T12:22:38.042+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='video'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='società semplici'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='soprovvivenza'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='identità culturale'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cultura'/><title type='text'>Umani in via di estinzione... (da RepubblicaTV)</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Oggi su "RepubblicaTv" è apparso questo video. Tralasciando la presentazione retorica e sensazionalistica di "Repubblica" che ci mostra nel titolo tali gruppi culturali richiamando l'immaginario del film &lt;i&gt;Avatar&lt;/i&gt;, sempre più mi chiedo - come da domanda finale del video - quale sia la 'giusta' misura nella relazione con gli altri, che siano singoli/gruppi che abitano il territorio che abitiamo pure noi, che siano (come in questo caso) popolazioni che abitano territori 'altri', sfruttati per esempio da multinazionali (e quindi, indirettamente, anche da noi).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Quale diritto abbiamo di entrare in relazione con loro, decimarli portando un raffreddore, o al contrario proponendo loro cure per allungarne la vita? - tanto per fare un esempio. Ma anche quale arroganza abbiamo per confinarli all'interno di 'riserve' ove possano vivere a modo loro, quale che sia la qualità/durata della loro esistenza, le loro leggi, le loro pratiche culturali e il loro senso della vita - quale arroganza abbiamo per cui parliamo di loro 'sopravvivenza' all'interno di riserve, chiamando a raccolta aiuti internazionali per 'proteggerli', come fossero animali in via di estinzione?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" height="445" id="tribalchannel-player" name="tribalchannel-player" width="720"&gt; &lt;param name='movie' value='http://assets.survivalinternational.org/flash/syndicated-player.swf'&gt;&lt;param name='allowFullScreen' value='true'&gt;&lt;param name='wmode' value='opaque'&gt;&lt;param name='allowScriptAccess' value='always'&gt;&lt;param name='bgcolor' value='FFFFFF'&gt;&lt;param name='flashvars' value='config=http://assets.uncontactedtribes.org/films/359/config.xml'&gt;&lt;embed type='application/x-shockwave-flash' id='tribalchannel-player' name='tribalchannel-player' src='http://assets.survivalinternational.org/flash/syndicated-player.swf' width='480' height='288' allowFullScreen='true' wmode='opaque' allowScriptAccess='always' bgcolor='FFFFFF' flashvars='config=http://assets.uncontactedtribes.org/films/359/config.xml' /&gt; &lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4052446112609185980-7088775946964098265?l=videoculture.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://videoculture.blogspot.com/feeds/7088775946964098265/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://videoculture.blogspot.com/2011/02/umani-in-via-di-estinzione-da.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4052446112609185980/posts/default/7088775946964098265'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4052446112609185980/posts/default/7088775946964098265'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://videoculture.blogspot.com/2011/02/umani-in-via-di-estinzione-da.html' title='Umani in via di estinzione... (da RepubblicaTV)'/><author><name>Cristina</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10320497324728266509</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hV709USIotE/TuoCHG8pS3I/AAAAAAAAAk4/hDtfiPnFwh8/s220/CristinaProfilo.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4052446112609185980.post-6825341915274871384</id><published>2011-02-02T11:00:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2011-02-02T11:00:07.318+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='antropologia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='visione'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sguardo'/><title type='text'>Antropologia della visione</title><content type='html'>&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt;  &lt;w:WordDocument&gt;   &lt;w:View&gt;Normal&lt;/w:View&gt;   &lt;w:Zoom&gt;0&lt;/w:Zoom&gt;   &lt;w:HyphenationZone&gt;14&lt;/w:HyphenationZone&gt;   &lt;w:PunctuationKerning/&gt;   &lt;w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/&gt;   &lt;w:SaveIfXMLInvalid&gt;false&lt;/w:SaveIfXMLInvalid&gt;   &lt;w:IgnoreMixedContent&gt;false&lt;/w:IgnoreMixedContent&gt;   &lt;w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText&gt;false&lt;/w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText&gt;   &lt;w:Compatibility&gt;    &lt;w:BreakWrappedTables/&gt;    &lt;w:SnapToGridInCell/&gt;    &lt;w:WrapTextWithPunct/&gt;    &lt;w:UseAsianBreakRules/&gt;    &lt;w:DontGrowAutofit/&gt;   &lt;/w:Compatibility&gt;   &lt;w:BrowserLevel&gt;MicrosoftInternetExplorer4&lt;/w:BrowserLevel&gt;  &lt;/w:WordDocument&gt; &lt;/xml&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt;  &lt;w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" LatentStyleCount="156"&gt;  &lt;/w:LatentStyles&gt; &lt;/xml&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 10]&gt; &lt;style&gt; /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Tabella normale"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;}&lt;/style&gt; &lt;![endif]--&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_A0x0WSaeh_I/TUaFu7uOqZI/AAAAAAAAARM/4Ir8AXL591E/s1600/vision.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_A0x0WSaeh_I/TUaFu7uOqZI/AAAAAAAAARM/4Ir8AXL591E/s320/vision.jpg" width="258" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;Alla vista è sempre stato tributato il posto d’onore tra i sensi nell’entrare in contatto col mondo: dobbiamo solo aprire gli occhi, e il mondo si dipana davanti a noi. Per tale ragione, linguisticamente, ritroviamo ovunque espressioni che mettono in diretto rapporto il processo della visione con quello della conoscenza - si pensi al concetto di “vedere per credere” o al contrario all’“avere il paraocchi”. Il pensiero occidentale si esprime parimenti attraverso metafore visive - nel momento in cui ricorre ad esempio a nozioni di ‘chiarezza’, ‘luce’, ‘prospettiva’, ‘punto di vista’.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;Senza bisogno di pensare, la vista ci proietta nel mondo, ove le cose scorrono davanti ai nostri occhi in un flusso continuo - interrotto solo se volontariamente dalla concentrazione su qualcosa di specifico. Eppure gli studi sulla cecità o sul modo in cui vedono i membri di culture ‘altre’ insegnano che vedere non è un’attività naturale: alla nascita il bambino non coglie il significato delle forme che si presentano ai suoi occhi. Egli , piuttosto, acquisisce la competenza a guardare e interpretare ciò che si apre davanti ai suoi occhi nel corso del tempo, mettendo in relazione quelle forme visive con le esperienze e le informazioni che gli derivano dagli altri organi di senso. Per riconoscere qualcosa, la deve in pratica già ‘conoscere’.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;In seguito a tale apprendistato, che varia da individuo a individuo in base alle sue particolari esperienze personali nell’arco della propria vita, l’atto di vedere diventa poi un processo automatico, al punto tale d’essere percepito da tutto noi come ‘naturale’ pur se non lo è. Se quindi nella vita quotidiana ci sembra che il mondo visivo si apra a noi in modo continuo, nel momento stesso in cui noi ‘vediamo’ stiamo già guardando - ovvero mettendo a fuoco particolari piuttosto che altri, e nutrendo aspettative rispetto a ciò che verrà dopo, o alle informazioni che ci servono per completare la percezione di un oggetto.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;Lo sguardo è un’attività produttiva e creatrice di senso (ancorché inconscia), che cerca di capire e comprendere attraverso il confronto tra la propria attività, le informazioni che giungono dagli altri sensi (spostandoci per esempio nello spazio, o allungando una mano per valutare la distanza o le qualità dell’oggetto che vediamo, per spostarlo, per comprendere come è fatto) e il ricordo - ovvero le precedenti esperienze analoghe di personale ‘appropriazione’ visiva del mondo. Lungi dall’essere innocente, esso “arriva di fronte alle cose con una storia, una cultura, un inconscio. L’occhio appartiene a un soggetto. Radicato al corpo e agli altri, non riflette il mondo, lo ricostruisce con le sue rappresentazioni” (David Le Breton).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4052446112609185980-6825341915274871384?l=videoculture.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://videoculture.blogspot.com/feeds/6825341915274871384/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://videoculture.blogspot.com/2011/02/antropologia-della-visione.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4052446112609185980/posts/default/6825341915274871384'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4052446112609185980/posts/default/6825341915274871384'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://videoculture.blogspot.com/2011/02/antropologia-della-visione.html' title='Antropologia della visione'/><author><name>Cristina</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10320497324728266509</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hV709USIotE/TuoCHG8pS3I/AAAAAAAAAk4/hDtfiPnFwh8/s220/CristinaProfilo.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_A0x0WSaeh_I/TUaFu7uOqZI/AAAAAAAAARM/4Ir8AXL591E/s72-c/vision.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4052446112609185980.post-6860298111558722016</id><published>2011-01-29T11:00:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2011-01-31T10:31:06.974+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='antropologia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='visione'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='percezione'/><title type='text'>Differenze culturali nella percezione cognitiva (Lisa Wade)</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="it"&gt;Link originale:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span lang="it"&gt;&lt;a href="http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2011/01/25/cultural-differences-in-cognitive-perception/"&gt;http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2011/01/25/cultural-differences-in-cognitive-perception/&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="it"&gt;Ve ne offro una veloce traduzione, con in fondo una piccola, velocissima considerazione da antropologa visiva.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="it"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="it"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="it"&gt;Sembra ovvio che le percezioni cognitive di base non dovrebbero variare da società a società. Il che significa che &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="it"&gt;i nostri occhi &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="it"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="it"&gt; dovrebbero vedere &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="it"&gt;e il nostro  cervello &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="it"&gt;deve elaborare &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="it"&gt;essenzialmente lo stesso, non importa ciò che noi chiamiamo noi  stessi, che lingua si parla, o quali festività celebriamo. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="it"&gt;Si scopre, tuttavia, che anche le cognizioni di base variano in tutto il mondo.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="it"&gt;La maggior parte americani, per esempio, percepisce  le due linee in questa illusione ottica di lunghezze diverse, con la  linea a più breve di linea b. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="it"&gt;In realtà, essi sono della stessa lunghezza.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a class="shutterset_32038" href="http://www.microsofttranslator.com/bv.aspx?from=&amp;amp;to=it&amp;amp;a=http%3A%2F%2Fthesocietypages.org%2Fsocimages%2Ffiles%2F2011%2F01%2F20.jpg" target="_top"&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-32039" height="120" src="http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/files/2011/01/20.jpg" width="362" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="it"&gt;Ma, come sostenuto da Joseph Henrich e colleghi nel&lt;/span&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.microsofttranslator.com/bv.aspx?from=&amp;amp;to=it&amp;amp;a=http%3A%2F%2Fnorthwestern.academia.edu%2FWillBennis%2FPapers%2F154149%2FWeirdness_is_in_the_eye_of_the_beholder_Commentary_on_Henrich_Heine_and_Norenzayan" target="_top"&gt;Journal of Behavioral and Brain Sciences&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span lang="it"&gt;, la nostra sensibilità a questa illusione varia in base alla cultura. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="it"&gt;In  media, la linea a deve essere un altro quinto più lunga della linea b prima  che la media degli americani non laureati valuti le linee di pari lunghezza. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="it"&gt;La  maggior parte delle altre società che sono stati testate su questa  illusione, tuttavia, prevedono sostanzialmente meno manipolazione. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="it"&gt;La figura seguente confronta come individui in diverse società rispondono a questo test. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="it"&gt;Le misure sono problematiche, e si può leggere di più in merito &lt;a href="http://www.microsofttranslator.com/bv.aspx?from=&amp;amp;to=it&amp;amp;a=http%3A%2F%2Fnorthwestern.academia.edu%2FWillBennis%2FPapers%2F154149%2FWeirdness_is_in_the_eye_of_the_beholder_Commentary_on_Henrich_Heine_and_Norenzayan" target="_top"&gt;qui&lt;/a&gt;; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="it"&gt;ciò che è necessario sapere per ora è che le società sulla destra sono più  sensibili per l'illusione e la società sulla sinistra meno.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a class="shutterset_32038" href="http://www.microsofttranslator.com/bv.aspx?from=&amp;amp;to=it&amp;amp;a=http%3A%2F%2Fthesocietypages.org%2Fsocimages%2Ffiles%2F2011%2F01%2F212.jpg" target="_top"&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-32041" height="324" src="http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/files/2011/01/212.jpg" width="358" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div lang="it" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div lang="it" style="color: black; text-align: justify;"&gt;Osservando che gli individui nelle società più sviluppate (ad  es., Evanston, Illinois) tendono ad essere più vulnerabili all'illusione - infatti, in alcune società, come ad esempio i San del  Kalahari, essa non si qualifica come un'illusione per tutti — Henrich e  suoi co-autori sostengono che l'esposizione agli "ambienti moderni"  possa esserne la causa:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;blockquote style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span lang="it"&gt;…l'esposizione visiva durante il suo sviluppo a fattori quali "angoli costruiti ad hoc" degli ambienti moderni può favorire  alcune calibrazioni ottiche e abitudini di visualizzazione che creano e perpetuano  questa illusione. Il s&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="it"&gt;istema visivo si adatta, alla presenza di caratteristiche ricorrenti nell'ambiente visivo locale.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div lang="it" style="background-color: white; color: black; text-align: justify;"&gt;Anche le basi della cognizione, che varia tra culture. Ciò, sostengono  Henrich e altri, chiama in causa tutti i truismi di  psicologia basati, principalmente, sulla ricerca sperimentale con  soggetti occidentali.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div lang="it" style="background-color: white; color: black; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div lang="it" style="background-color: white; color: black; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div lang="it" style="background-color: white; color: #0f0f5f; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;Una sola considerazione: tutte queste tesi sono state già esposte e sviluppate in antropologia visiva da&amp;nbsp; almeno 50 anni (cfr. i lavori di Rouch, poi Worth &amp;amp; Adair) e sintetizzate mirabilmente nei lavori di Massimo Canevacci e Antonio Marazzi...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div lang="it" style="background-color: white; color: #0f0f5f; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div lang="it" style="background-color: white; color: #0f0f5f; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4052446112609185980-6860298111558722016?l=videoculture.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://videoculture.blogspot.com/feeds/6860298111558722016/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://videoculture.blogspot.com/2011/01/differenze-culturali-nella-percezione.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4052446112609185980/posts/default/6860298111558722016'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4052446112609185980/posts/default/6860298111558722016'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://videoculture.blogspot.com/2011/01/differenze-culturali-nella-percezione.html' title='Differenze culturali nella percezione cognitiva (Lisa Wade)'/><author><name>Cristina</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10320497324728266509</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hV709USIotE/TuoCHG8pS3I/AAAAAAAAAk4/hDtfiPnFwh8/s220/CristinaProfilo.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4052446112609185980.post-9162432065106388153</id><published>2011-01-28T12:00:00.004+01:00</published><updated>2011-01-28T12:00:06.364+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='disegno'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='fotografia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='società'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='arte'/><title type='text'>Ben Heine: Matita vs. Macchina Fotografica</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Ovvero come si può reinventare la realtà sovrapponendole un pensiero disegnato a matita.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;E' ciò che fa l'artista belga &lt;a href="http://www.benheine.com/"&gt;Ben Heine&lt;/a&gt;, che in questo momento mi sembra particolarmente appropriato segnalare con un suo lavoro che mi fa sorridere e dà speranza.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_A0x0WSaeh_I/TUKgMaXftjI/AAAAAAAAARI/B9PAO6c8pnw/s1600/concerti.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="250" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_A0x0WSaeh_I/TUKgMaXftjI/AAAAAAAAARI/B9PAO6c8pnw/s320/concerti.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4052446112609185980-9162432065106388153?l=videoculture.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://videoculture.blogspot.com/feeds/9162432065106388153/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://videoculture.blogspot.com/2011/01/ben-heine-matita-vs-macchina.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4052446112609185980/posts/default/9162432065106388153'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4052446112609185980/posts/default/9162432065106388153'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://videoculture.blogspot.com/2011/01/ben-heine-matita-vs-macchina.html' title='Ben Heine: Matita vs. Macchina Fotografica'/><author><name>Cristina</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10320497324728266509</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hV709USIotE/TuoCHG8pS3I/AAAAAAAAAk4/hDtfiPnFwh8/s220/CristinaProfilo.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_A0x0WSaeh_I/TUKgMaXftjI/AAAAAAAAARI/B9PAO6c8pnw/s72-c/concerti.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4052446112609185980.post-1010931478309352536</id><published>2011-01-22T18:45:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2011-01-22T18:45:13.489+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='video'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='poesia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='font'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='arte'/><title type='text'>Totally like whatever, you know?</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Lo studente di cinema &lt;a href="http://vimeo.com/ronniebruce"&gt;Ronnie Bruce&lt;/a&gt; ha realizzato un video dalla poesia &lt;i&gt;Totally like whatever, you know?&lt;/i&gt; di &lt;a href="http://www.taylormali.com/"&gt;Taylor Mali&lt;/a&gt;. in qui nulla di paroticolare, se non che nel farlo ha usato solo fonts, e giocato sul tipo di carattere, le dimensioni, l'articolazione nello spazio e il ritmo visivo nella comparsa e nella relazione tra le parole in modo tale da creare di fatto una performance visiva che restituisse perfettamente l'intonazione del discorso e del contenuto della medesima. Buona visione!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;object height="270" width="400"&gt;&lt;param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=3829682&amp;amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;amp;show_title=1&amp;amp;show_byline=1&amp;amp;show_portrait=1&amp;amp;color=00ADEF&amp;amp;fullscreen=1&amp;amp;autoplay=0&amp;amp;loop=0" /&gt;&lt;embed src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=3829682&amp;amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;amp;show_title=1&amp;amp;show_byline=1&amp;amp;show_portrait=1&amp;amp;color=00ADEF&amp;amp;fullscreen=1&amp;amp;autoplay=0&amp;amp;loop=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="270"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Totally like whatever, you know? &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By &lt;a href="http://www.taylormali.com/"&gt;Taylor Mali &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.taylormali.com/"&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;In case you hadn't noticed, &lt;br /&gt;it has somehow become uncool &lt;br /&gt;to sound like you know what you're talking about? &lt;br /&gt;Or believe strongly in what you're saying? &lt;br /&gt;Invisible question marks and parenthetical (you know?)'s &lt;br /&gt;have been attaching themselves to the ends of our sentences? &lt;br /&gt;Even when those sentences aren't, like, questions? You know? &lt;br /&gt;Declarative sentences - so-called &lt;br /&gt;because they used to, like, DECLARE things to be true &lt;br /&gt;as opposed to other things which were, like, not -&lt;br /&gt;have been infected by a totally hip &lt;br /&gt;and tragically cool interrogative tone? You know? &lt;br /&gt;Like, don't think I'm uncool just because I've noticed this; &lt;br /&gt;this is just like the word on the street, you know? &lt;br /&gt;It's like what I've heard? &lt;br /&gt;I have nothing personally invested in my own opinions, okay? &lt;br /&gt;I'm just inviting you to join me in my uncertainty? &lt;br /&gt;What has happened to our conviction? &lt;br /&gt;Where are the limbs out on which we once walked? &lt;br /&gt;Have they been, like, chopped down &lt;br /&gt;with the rest of the rain forest? &lt;br /&gt;Or do we have, like, nothing to say? &lt;br /&gt;Has society become so, like, totally . . . &lt;br /&gt;I mean absolutely . . . You know? &lt;br /&gt;That we've just gotten to the point where it's just, like . . . &lt;br /&gt;whatever! &lt;br /&gt;And so actually our disarticulation . . . ness &lt;br /&gt;is just a clever sort of . . . thing &lt;br /&gt;to disguise the fact that we've become &lt;br /&gt;the most aggressively inarticulate generation &lt;br /&gt;to come along since . . . &lt;br /&gt;you know, a long, long time ago! &lt;br /&gt;I entreat you, I implore you, I exhort you, &lt;br /&gt;I challenge you: To speak with conviction. &lt;br /&gt;To say what you believe in a manner that bespeaks &lt;br /&gt;the determination with which you believe it. &lt;br /&gt;Because contrary to the wisdom of the bumper sticker, &lt;br /&gt;it is not enough these days to simply QUESTION AUTHORITY. &lt;br /&gt;You have to speak with it, too.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4052446112609185980-1010931478309352536?l=videoculture.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://videoculture.blogspot.com/feeds/1010931478309352536/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://videoculture.blogspot.com/2011/01/totally-like-whatever-you-know.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4052446112609185980/posts/default/1010931478309352536'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4052446112609185980/posts/default/1010931478309352536'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://videoculture.blogspot.com/2011/01/totally-like-whatever-you-know.html' title='Totally like whatever, you know?'/><author><name>Cristina</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10320497324728266509</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hV709USIotE/TuoCHG8pS3I/AAAAAAAAAk4/hDtfiPnFwh8/s220/CristinaProfilo.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4052446112609185980.post-6455434833274997708</id><published>2011-01-19T14:57:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2011-01-19T15:42:36.087+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='video'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='identità culturale'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cultura'/><title type='text'>What is Culture?</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Trovato in rete, questo breve video solleva e discute alcuni interrogativi relativi al concetto di cultura di indubbio interesse:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;- come può essere definita la cultura?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;- come la cultura influenza la società?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;- qual è la finalità della cultura?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;e via dicendo.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Un'introduzione non esaustiva, ma sulla quale si può discutere ;-)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;object height="344" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ai9pRv_t3y8?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=it_IT&amp;amp;rel=0&amp;amp;color1=0x3a3a3a&amp;amp;color2=0x999999"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ai9pRv_t3y8?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=it_IT&amp;amp;rel=0&amp;amp;color1=0x3a3a3a&amp;amp;color2=0x999999" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4052446112609185980-6455434833274997708?l=videoculture.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://videoculture.blogspot.com/feeds/6455434833274997708/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://videoculture.blogspot.com/2011/01/what-is-culture.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4052446112609185980/posts/default/6455434833274997708'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4052446112609185980/posts/default/6455434833274997708'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://videoculture.blogspot.com/2011/01/what-is-culture.html' title='What is Culture?'/><author><name>Cristina</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10320497324728266509</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hV709USIotE/TuoCHG8pS3I/AAAAAAAAAk4/hDtfiPnFwh8/s220/CristinaProfilo.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4052446112609185980.post-9195107235582759884</id><published>2010-10-29T11:29:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2011-02-03T11:33:14.416+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='London Fields'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='vegan'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='fieldwork'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Pogo Cafè'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='anarchy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='stereotype'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Hackney'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='anthropology'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='London'/><title type='text'>London Borough of Hackney (Unfamiliar Faces, Vegan Anarchists, and Autumn Smell)</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.hackney.gov.uk/"&gt;&lt;img alt="hackney" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-25" height="224" src="http://exit-strategies.freedom-blogs.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/hackney1-300x224.jpg" style="border: 1px solid black; margin: 2px 6px;" title="hackney" width="300" /&gt;Hackney&lt;/a&gt; is a lovely place. A little scaring, but I guess it's only because I'm a newby, and I can't recognise people's attitudes by their faces yet - as one can do when is familiar with a place. It will take time. And I'm not used to so many black people around. It's not a racial judgement, mine: it's a realization. It's kinda weird to wander around these white fancy terraced homes, and seeing old black people talking/smoking at the front door of them... I mean: this is the stereotype we have of Jamaica, not of London! But still is nice. And they all great you!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Greeting people you don't know seems to be the easiest and most common thing here. I began a walk of the neighbourhood in late morning yesterday, to meet up with Brigida in the afternoon, and walking down the street to reach the local shopping area to buy some food I was greeted by all the people I saw without knowing them: a woman at the front door of her house, an old man while mending his car, a young guy riding his bike, the dustman who was sweeping the street. This was so weird!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://exit-strategies.freedom-blogs.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/hackney3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-26" height="300" src="http://exit-strategies.freedom-blogs.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/hackney3-224x300.jpg" style="border: 1px solid black; margin: 2px 6px;" title="Pogo" width="224" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;After a few blocks, I eventually reached 'my' place: the &lt;a href="http://www.pogocafe.co.uk/"&gt;Pogo Cafè&lt;/a&gt;, the meet-up point of the anarchists/squatters of the area - vegan, gluten free and definitely laid-back. With lovely people inside, sharing experiences about squatting and travelling, or talking about any issues, or simply sitting on a couch and reading. Brigida and I had lunch there and could grasp some words form the tables around (you know: we are anthropologists, always spying other people's lives) - definitely nice ones!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We ended up with a long walk, reaching another nice street - Broadway Market, where on Saturdays there's a vegetables &amp;amp; fruits market - full of fancy people, where you unpredictably feel 'home' even if it has nothing in common with the one you left in your hometown.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br class="spacer_" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;And again, walked through London Fields. The leaves mixed with the wet ground produced an autumn smell, and reminded me of many other good moments in my life - like a time warp where time bends on itself.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4052446112609185980-9195107235582759884?l=videoculture.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://videoculture.blogspot.com/feeds/9195107235582759884/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://videoculture.blogspot.com/2011/02/london-borough-of-hackney-unfamiliar.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4052446112609185980/posts/default/9195107235582759884'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4052446112609185980/posts/default/9195107235582759884'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://videoculture.blogspot.com/2011/02/london-borough-of-hackney-unfamiliar.html' title='London Borough of Hackney (Unfamiliar Faces, Vegan Anarchists, and Autumn Smell)'/><author><name>Cristina</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10320497324728266509</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hV709USIotE/TuoCHG8pS3I/AAAAAAAAAk4/hDtfiPnFwh8/s220/CristinaProfilo.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4052446112609185980.post-4213640041420946839</id><published>2010-10-29T11:27:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2011-02-03T11:33:49.435+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='An Anthropologist in London'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='participant observation'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='anthropology'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='food'/><title type='text'>Is This an Ordinary Day (a Walk in Camden, Unexpected Kindness, and British Good Food)?</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Waking up quite early in the morning last Saturday - 4 cats around are not really the best company to sleep as long as you would like to! - I made up my mind to get to &lt;a href="http://www.camdenlockmarket.com/"&gt;Camden Lock Market&lt;/a&gt; and have a walk around there before meeting in the afternoon with the London Art &amp;amp; Culture group.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;I took the overtrain and then walked down the railway station to reach the market area. Camden is a folkloristic place to say the least, where people go to exhibit themselves and tourists buy any kind of fake punk stuff to have the feeling they recall an old memory, born and developed here, who affected them not only in teenager years - fucking seductive for the ones of us who still live/feel that way.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://exit-strategies.freedom-blogs.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/camden6.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-60" height="224" src="http://exit-strategies.freedom-blogs.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/camden6-300x224.jpg" style="border: 1px solid black; margin: 2px 6px;" title="camden6" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; I mixed with this human flow, and became a further stranger among them. I ended up eating a wonderful seafood paella - sitting on the pavement in front of the channel. Sun was kissing me and about other 50 winter lizards, whilst looking around and thinking about my best friend and how much I desired to have her here with me to share this.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;'Kindness' is the password, and no matter at the moment that it might sometimes be connected with hypocrisy - althugh I didn't notice this happening around me up now. "Anything bad that might happen to you, if you go through any crisis or feel like crying or just need to talk, call me!" - a complete unknow lovely girl from the London Art &amp;amp; Culture group told me this after visiting together a contemporary art exhibition last Saturday at Saatchi Gallery. Yes, this is London, something very different from the cold, cool town of our imagination. The exhibition wasn't astonishing: much of the works was somehow already seen - it seems to be quite hard to say something really new in contemporary art! But at least I met lovely Londoners in it - Rebecca and Samina. Yes, my dear ladies: I feel a little more confident now so I'll be able to join you also in the evening next time!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Sunday I met Brigida and her friend Ula to go to a free shop in the area of Spitalfields. But we soon ended up, with some more mates, to join a pub - one of the most messed up place I've ever been, with such a loud volume music you couldn't talk, so stuffy that you can understand why swein flue spread so much here, and with such a bad and mixed taste in forniture&amp;amp;decoration that you don't need to get drunk to throw up. This to tell the truth, but nervertheless the building was really lovely, and in any case there was a very nice and relaxed atmosphere - not to mention the brilliant Brigida's friends and the funny conversations we had with them!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;We finally went for dinner in a place that deserves a mention, as everybody say UK food sucks: no, it doesn't (when you have an 'anthropologist of food' leading you to *highly selected* bistrots such as the &lt;a href="http://www.stjohnrestaurant.co.uk/"&gt;St. John restaurant&lt;/a&gt; where you get local food cooked according to ancient recipes. What I tasted recalled no memory in my head, it was something unexpected and so good that you... ahem... can't believe it's British!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4052446112609185980-4213640041420946839?l=videoculture.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://videoculture.blogspot.com/feeds/4213640041420946839/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://videoculture.blogspot.com/2011/02/is-this-ordinary-day-walk-in-camden.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4052446112609185980/posts/default/4213640041420946839'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4052446112609185980/posts/default/4213640041420946839'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://videoculture.blogspot.com/2011/02/is-this-ordinary-day-walk-in-camden.html' title='Is This an Ordinary Day (a Walk in Camden, Unexpected Kindness, and British Good Food)?'/><author><name>Cristina</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10320497324728266509</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hV709USIotE/TuoCHG8pS3I/AAAAAAAAAk4/hDtfiPnFwh8/s220/CristinaProfilo.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4052446112609185980.post-6057755354220240061</id><published>2010-10-29T11:27:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2011-02-03T11:33:31.700+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='An Anthropologist in London'/><title type='text'>Chronicles from the Underworld (Lost in the Supermarket, Kultur Shock, and Another Little Sister)</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Another day wandering around - still not knowing what to do next months, and taking the day off to go shopping and then relaxing, as I needed to... Went to Tesco in the area of Hackney Central Station: "I'm lost in the supermarket / I can no longer shop happily". Little differences for an anonymous non-place. I found my way by talking to people: "God gave us the tongue to be able to ask directions" - as I used to say to strangers on my first Inter-rail when I was 18, and everybody wondered how this young girl could feel home everywhere, even in perfectly unknown places.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0" height="265" style="height: 265px; width: 320px;" width="320"&gt;&lt;param name="src" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/8NpNzASDHqI&amp;amp;hl=it_IT&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;rel=0" /&gt;&lt;param name="align" value="left" /&gt;&lt;param name="vspace" value="2" /&gt;&lt;param name="hspace" value="6" /&gt;&lt;embed style="width: 320px; height: 265px;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="320" height="265" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/8NpNzASDHqI&amp;amp;hl=it_IT&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;rel=0" hspace="6" vspace="2" align="left"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;I spent the evening watching with my flatmate (and landlord) "The Boat That Rocked" (on a big screen &amp;amp; videoprojection: sometimes is not bad to enjoy others' richness!), a lovely good film, with an amazing sountrack, about the first free radios in UK in late 60s. Rebels, pirates - we keep on building on that, isn't it? The last romantics...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Thuesday passed in writing emails to universities, then, in the evening, I eventually went to one of the best concerts I've seen the last years: Kultur Shock, playing at the &lt;a href="http://www.theunderworldcamden.co.uk/"&gt;Camden Underworld&lt;/a&gt;. The Underworld is a music club, in the basement of a tipical victorian building. A good band played as supporters, &lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/drunkenbalordi%20"&gt;Drunken Balordi&lt;/a&gt;. Fine gipsy punk, slightly folk too, sometimes. But really good.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0" height="265" style="height: 265px; width: 320px;" width="320"&gt;&lt;param name="src" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/vzB-VhMaWOA&amp;amp;hl=it_IT&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;rel=0" /&gt;&lt;param name="align" value="right" /&gt;&lt;param name="vspace" value="2" /&gt;&lt;param name="hspace" value="6" /&gt;&lt;embed style="width: 320px; height: 265px;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="320" height="265" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/vzB-VhMaWOA&amp;amp;hl=it_IT&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;rel=0" hspace="6" vspace="2" align="right"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;And then &lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/kulturshock"&gt;Kultur Shock&lt;/a&gt; went on stage. And their songs and attitudes are really engaging and immersive! Take a look at the video to have an idea of the two hours I had the pleasure and honour to join. The violinist was the sexiest woman I've ever seen, and the singer had such a powerful voice and shy attitude at the same time, that you felt like crying at the lyrics of their songs.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Little differences: people in Italy dance. With different styles, some being a real vision of beauty, some others making you smile as they still have to train - but yet, they all dance and move according to the rythm. Here none of the people of the audience could dance, not even move to the rythm. Running, punching, kicking or, less dangerously, simply jumping. No surprise that "the music of the people who couldn't play" - the punk - was born here by these beat&amp;amp;melody unconscious people! But I've been told that *the norther people* (expecially the ones from the area of Liverpool or the ones who come from different areas of England and then joined together) are much better, ahahah!...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;The concert ended at 11pm - quite surprising for me used to concerts beginning at that hour, but this meant no worries in coming back. Even when not knowing where the bus stop to come back was. I asked a little young girl with violet hair, piercings, black clothes, with the @ stuck everywhere on her light jacket. And she moved from her way to lead me to the right bus stop - walking in the coldness of this humid town. "Aren't you cold?" I asked. "Yes" - she replied with a smile. We said goodbye at the bus stop, and she straight off kissed me on my cheeks. I will probably never see her again, but she is part of my personal beautiful world now - a sister, a mate, an 'accomplice' in making the *wider society* better, and more mutually supportive. So thanks, my dear: wish you to keep on behaving this way!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4052446112609185980-6057755354220240061?l=videoculture.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://videoculture.blogspot.com/feeds/6057755354220240061/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://videoculture.blogspot.com/2011/02/chronicles-from-underworld-lost-in.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4052446112609185980/posts/default/6057755354220240061'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4052446112609185980/posts/default/6057755354220240061'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://videoculture.blogspot.com/2011/02/chronicles-from-underworld-lost-in.html' title='Chronicles from the Underworld (Lost in the Supermarket, Kultur Shock, and Another Little Sister)'/><author><name>Cristina</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10320497324728266509</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hV709USIotE/TuoCHG8pS3I/AAAAAAAAAk4/hDtfiPnFwh8/s220/CristinaProfilo.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4052446112609185980.post-4532552966860729381</id><published>2010-10-29T11:26:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2011-02-03T11:32:56.749+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='An Anthropologist in London'/><title type='text'>It's All London Baby (Complaining the English Way, Hygienic Norms, and Some Healthy Confusion)!</title><content type='html'>I had a wonderful dinner last Thursday with a few (girl)friends - where I learnt to complain in the English way. "Complaining the English way" means that instead of mumbling and telling yourself you will never go again in a place you disliked for something due to the service or the food, you make it notice to the manager of the place, who will do its best to compensate you for what went wrong - with a dessert, or in any other fancy way. Cool, isn't it? I like it - my critic attitude is definitely fulfilled by it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyway, we had a lovely evening any anthropologists would dream about: talking with some other intellectuals, not from your field, about what we notice as similarities and differences between cultures - and Brigida and I are deeply embedded in this educational attitude and in broadering our knowledge about human cultures beyond academic community. So we spent some of our time teaching about hygienic norms and conceptions among gypsies, Italians and British people. When you take the shower in the morning, for example, we first use the bidet, and then take the shower: yes, we wash ourselves twice. And no, the bidet is not "that piece of forniture that fill the space between the WC and the sink". Just as we would never use the small towel - the one we use to dry our privates - to dry our hands and face as well, for which we use the bigger towel. Of course, we had finished our dinner before talking about these issues - it wouldn't be nice to talk about intimate washing whilst eating...&lt;br /&gt;The day after I had what I consider the best interview I ever had for a job with whom could be considered at a first sight as a 'weird' professor - as I couldn't even understand, before meeting, is she was a 'she' or a 'he'. Her name is in fact Sue, but she uses as well the name Johnny to refer herself. On the net I saw some of her articles signed either with the masculine or the feminine name - so I couldn't really understand. But at a certain point I didn't worry about it anymore. "Whatever!" - I told myself, a comment really nice I learnt here, that means something like: "Whatever it is, it's not an issue of mine, and/or it doesn't make any difference" - it's all London, baby!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyway, the inverview didn't give me (at least not immediately) a job, but opened up some opportunities. What's more important is that it has been the best inverview I had in my life: two hours spent 1) with a passionate person willing to learn about my researches, attitudes, aims, 2) listening with a sincere interest and care to me, 3) telling me a true and objective analysis of what I've done up now (so congratulating me for the good things as well as criticising for the wrong ones), 4) suggesting me the further steps to achieve my goals (and not forcing me to necessary do this in her department), and showing to be a people person with a deep and warm kindness to support me - like she could see my past in my eyes. Unbelievable! Something special I wish all the ones I love to live by/with someone else such as a potential mentor/tutor. So I'm keeping on thinking/wondering/reflecting about this still now. I'm getting every day more confused, but still in a serene way. Thinking about next steps. What I want to do. Where I want to live the next few months. What am I actually looking for in general...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4052446112609185980-4532552966860729381?l=videoculture.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://videoculture.blogspot.com/feeds/4532552966860729381/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://videoculture.blogspot.com/2011/02/its-all-london-baby-complaining-english.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4052446112609185980/posts/default/4532552966860729381'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4052446112609185980/posts/default/4532552966860729381'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://videoculture.blogspot.com/2011/02/its-all-london-baby-complaining-english.html' title='It&apos;s All London Baby (Complaining the English Way, Hygienic Norms, and Some Healthy Confusion)!'/><author><name>Cristina</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10320497324728266509</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hV709USIotE/TuoCHG8pS3I/AAAAAAAAAk4/hDtfiPnFwh8/s220/CristinaProfilo.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4052446112609185980.post-2272814787222644663</id><published>2010-10-29T09:46:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2011-02-03T11:32:07.411+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='An Anthropologist in London'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='comunità'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='esperienza di flusso'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='arte'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='paesaggio sonoro'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='memoria'/><title type='text'>A Town for the Senses (Soundscapes, Scents, and Time Warps)</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;There's a book I bought 15 years ago that one day I will make up my mind and spend the time to read (as I perceive this action as fulfilling a useless longstanding desire and therefore a luxury, up now I never allowed myself to). This book is &lt;i&gt;The Soundscape&lt;/i&gt;, by Raymond Schafer. I'm not only dislocated in a new visual reality here, but also in a new audio reality. When we are not professionals of the sound we rarely notice it, as the power of the visual is much stronger. And there's quite a huge number of sounds we are exposed to, in urban areas, that are pretty common in most of the towns where we live. Noises produced by cars and motorbikes, the ones of the planes flying over our heads and landing in the local airports, and - further less enjoyable - the cracking-nerves noise of the garbage bins empitied in the dust-cart. But sometimes, something unexpected can brake the common mixture of noise/silence we are used to, and reveal us the place we are in is not a familiar one.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;There's a kindergarden right in from of my room. I can't see anything as the flat is on the ground floor and there's a wall surrounding the building that covers the view, but still you can get the sounds of the neighbourhood. And the sound, today, comes from the kindergarden where - among the crying of the kids and the rolling of bikes, balls and anything they play with, someone is giving a workshop in xylophone, and the music is amplified by loudspeakers. I say "someone is giving a workshop" as you can distinguish specific audio sequences played once, and then repeated by less experienced people. So I presume it's something like that. The result is quite enjoiable, but unusual to my ears. A different soundscape.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_A0x0WSaeh_I/TMp9pNATN5I/AAAAAAAAALo/rNl6Zo-JVPs/s1600/chiesa-300x252.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="268" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_A0x0WSaeh_I/TMp9pNATN5I/AAAAAAAAALo/rNl6Zo-JVPs/s320/chiesa-300x252.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;I got the same impression a few days ago, whilst - getting out of my place on a Sunday morning - I was exposed to the music and choirs coming from the nearby Baptist church. The voices coming from inside were mainly feminin. I'm not specifically moved by this genre of songs, nor by this audio experience itself, but behind the sound there are people, and I felt somehow less lonely and more protected although the human presence could only been assumed, but not seen. So I stopped for a while and enjoyed, as churches always give me the same effect of isolated places - far from everyday life - where one can experience a feeling of a strong energy given by the gathering of different people who have a common faith in something (the same description can be applied to different gatherings of people - it's what Csíkszentmihályi calls "&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_%28psychology%29"&gt;flow experience&lt;/a&gt;"). I was perceiving from outside the result of the flow experience others were living.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_A0x0WSaeh_I/TMp-Hceb9RI/AAAAAAAAALs/G5tbjrnbLGs/s1600/ring-224x300.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_A0x0WSaeh_I/TMp-Hceb9RI/AAAAAAAAALs/G5tbjrnbLGs/s1600/ring-224x300.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Then, suddenly, my attention turned to be grasped by the visual - that recalled its power on me. Right on my left - in front of the church - a phone box was covered by an unusual advertisement. A white circle on a black background included the words "A ring of salt will protect you". I looked at the phone box, then looked back at the church on the other side of the street, then again concentrated on the phone box to eventually realise, at the end, that is was (probably - but who knows?) only by a coincidence that the two opposite communications were sharing the same crossroads.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Besides the hearing, another sense competes to grasp a person's attention whilst travelling: the sense of smell. Any place has a different smell, and - like in another book (&lt;i&gt;Picturing Culture&lt;/i&gt;, by James Clifford &amp;amp; George Marcus) was noticed - ethnographic diaries are full of references to smells that are never present in the final monography we write about the situation we studied/researched about.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The sense of smell is the most powerful provoker, in me, of frequent time warps - as it leads my mind to memories, sometimes far in years in the past, I completely forgot, and make the visual images associated to those time distant situation flowing in front of my open eyes and superimposing on the real ones I'm seeing in a specific moment. That's probably the reason why I look for these sensations - that can be negative or positive (it's up to the way to judge a scent) - and enjoy so much those places where smells/scents/perfumes are strong and can lead my imagination to other similar situations experiences in the past. And - let me behave as an anthropologist for a minute - the judgement of a scent as nice/bad is again culture-based (the same could be said about the appreciation of something you hear or taste). I was quite surprised so, when I was living in Germany, to buy a handcream that was exactly the same I was used to use in Italy, and once opening it realising it had a very different scent. The ingredients were the same, only the chemical composition of the perfume was different - to localize the product among the place it was sold. But I was quiet young, I couldn't realise someone else was already aware of the phenomenon ans was also able to build a marketing strategy on it.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_A0x0WSaeh_I/TMp-U2npJfI/AAAAAAAAALw/fkQNXAHJa7U/s1600/4237705934_ce7827921c-300x199.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_A0x0WSaeh_I/TMp-U2npJfI/AAAAAAAAALw/fkQNXAHJa7U/s1600/4237705934_ce7827921c-300x199.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Yesterday I went to a building that is going to be demolished soon, but before this happens it is hosting the &lt;a href="http://www.marketestateproject.com/"&gt;Market Estate Project&lt;/a&gt; - an art experience and a series of events with about 75 artists - that will end the 6th of March.  The project is connected to the idea of helping the local people - formerly living in the social houses that are going to be destroyed, as crumbling and impossibile to refurbish anymore, who had relocated nearby - to emotionally overcome, by the support of arts and artists, the loss of a place were they led their lives up that moment. A collective "rite of passage".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I had a tour in and around the building, actually in unaccettable conditions. The water was dripping at every floor from cracks in the ceiling and gathering in little pools on the corridors, the electric cables were hanging from walls cracks - giving me an uncomfortable, precarious sensation. But then, I had a wonderful time warp.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Humidity + chill + concrete. Humidity and chill is a smell I know since the first (squatted) social centre I joined in my late adolescence, places where I grew up and where I still go to meet most of my friends - for concerts, dinners, talks. Humidity and chill recall as well the memory of the flats my friends, coming from villages in the region, rented during their university years, and where it was quite common to have lunch and pretend to study together. The smell of concrete comes from the experience of different houses' restorations I had been exposed in my life, both in case of family's flats and because of my father's work - for which he was always in company of bricklayers whose clothes were impregnated of powder. Where I feel that smell, I feel "home". And then, I first perceived these three scents together  many years ago, one day I got out of the overground train connecting the airport to the city centre in Hong Kong. Humidity was 95% and a few people were involved in the restauration of the building. I couldn't breath properly as the powder and the humidity were so concentrated - so this might be the reason why I remember it so neat.&lt;br /&gt;The scent I breathed yesterday was right the same one. I climbed the stairs in this empty building, listening to the water dripping and the pieces of concrete craking under my shoes. The shadows of two chinese guys carrying a beam overcame me smiling. I smiled them back, although there was nobody around.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4052446112609185980-2272814787222644663?l=videoculture.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://videoculture.blogspot.com/feeds/2272814787222644663/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://videoculture.blogspot.com/2010/02/town-for-senses-soundscapes-scents-and.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4052446112609185980/posts/default/2272814787222644663'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4052446112609185980/posts/default/2272814787222644663'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://videoculture.blogspot.com/2010/02/town-for-senses-soundscapes-scents-and.html' title='A Town for the Senses (Soundscapes, Scents, and Time Warps)'/><author><name>Cristina</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10320497324728266509</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hV709USIotE/TuoCHG8pS3I/AAAAAAAAAk4/hDtfiPnFwh8/s220/CristinaProfilo.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_A0x0WSaeh_I/TMp9pNATN5I/AAAAAAAAALo/rNl6Zo-JVPs/s72-c/chiesa-300x252.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4052446112609185980.post-8323302740437535124</id><published>2010-10-29T09:45:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2011-02-03T11:32:27.628+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='An Anthropologist in London'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='comunità'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='arte'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='identità culturale'/><title type='text'>Fortuitous Encounters (I'm Doing Art!, My Extended Family, and the Perception of Self Within a Place)</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_A0x0WSaeh_I/TMp_-9dY5MI/AAAAAAAAAL0/Hsm7dtitDI4/s1600/TooMuchRum2-300x224.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_A0x0WSaeh_I/TMp_-9dY5MI/AAAAAAAAAL0/Hsm7dtitDI4/s1600/TooMuchRum2-300x224.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;"Don't try, do!". This sentence resounds in my ears as a mantra since when I'm here. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to do much up now, but I'm slowly beginning. A guy physically stopped me one evening on my way home, whilst I was still in a temporary flat I rent for one week in Shoreditch. "Come inside and visit my exhibition!" - he said, and I did. It was the opening, with lots of people crowded in the small space of a former shop, now used as an art gallery. His exhibition was actually one single huge work on canvas that covered the four walls of the shop, painted and written with some hints he gave (colours, "symbols", sentences) and for the rest by those passing by in the street the days before, and curiously asking what was going on, as well as by the ones joining the opening itself.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;I read a few words and realised I was interested, but felt like I wanted to visit it another time, without so many people around. "I come back tomorrow"; "I'll wait for you". The day after we both kept our word and I came back, to realise that Piero (Arico' is the surname) is an Italian artist and a lovely guy - generous, passionate and full of fascinating contradictions. A deep rich soul I immediately clicked with and - enjoying his and his mates' company (he was supported in this work by the crew of &lt;a href="http://www.artfeelers.com/"&gt;ArtFeelers&lt;/a&gt;) - joined the following days for a couple of films in the evening and a lovely shared dinner with some more people. So, one evening I felt sad and tired because of the tough flat-hunting turned out to be one of the most intense and enriching event I could live. I wrote on the canvas - and this became part of his work - "From now -&amp;gt; on you belong to my extended family", and this sentence joined the many contributions other people gave - in the direction of a sort of collective meditation about society, relationships and communication in contemporary world Piero suggested and that is his aim ("but we can only suggest a direction, and then who knows what people will develop from a hint?").&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Anyway, I met a few new 'brothers' and 'sisters' by meeting him - and it's a crew I quite enjoy. Relaxed, deeply in contemporary arts and in sharing food and talks. In spite of those who say London is the capital of loneliness!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_A0x0WSaeh_I/TMqAJ-iRbZI/AAAAAAAAAL4/jco9J8g56l4/s1600/TooMuchRum201-224x300.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_A0x0WSaeh_I/TMqAJ-iRbZI/AAAAAAAAAL4/jco9J8g56l4/s1600/TooMuchRum201-224x300.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Still, somehow, I have to say this is true. It's quite easy to relate each other quickly, but the flow of the people who come and go is astonishing. As soon as you tie up with someone, you risk that this person goes away (usually abroad - 'somewhere else') to follow his/her attitudes, dreams, life. Some people are never fed up by the town, whilst some others 'bite it and rush away'. London is immense and with many 'centres' that still - luckily for me and by my point of view - are build up from former villages and/or act as real neighbourhood. My friends (who are not going far at the moment, or at least have short trips "in the continent") are all around here. I'm in a multicultural cool place far from the touristic area, with no mess around and a walking distance by the former 'village' of Stoke Newington. I only miss the sea, but can reach the Thames - and imagine the river docks as scratches of an imaginary sea - in half an hour by bus. And whilst talking with new people I meet, I define myself in terms of East Ender, living in Clapton (Hackney), and realise - by this same way I talk about me, as "new Londoner" - the way some pieces of my identity are to a certain extent "shifting"- carrying me at least to a new (temporary) definition of myself. It's a curious process - and something anthropologists love to live on their own skin and self-reflect about!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;See more pics I took of the exhibition here: &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/cristina29/sets/72157623308767477/"&gt;Too Much Rum in a Cup of Tea&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4052446112609185980-8323302740437535124?l=videoculture.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://videoculture.blogspot.com/feeds/8323302740437535124/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://videoculture.blogspot.com/2010/02/fortuitous-encounters-im-doing-art-my.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4052446112609185980/posts/default/8323302740437535124'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4052446112609185980/posts/default/8323302740437535124'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://videoculture.blogspot.com/2010/02/fortuitous-encounters-im-doing-art-my.html' title='Fortuitous Encounters (I&apos;m Doing Art!, My Extended Family, and the Perception of Self Within a Place)'/><author><name>Cristina</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10320497324728266509</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hV709USIotE/TuoCHG8pS3I/AAAAAAAAAk4/hDtfiPnFwh8/s220/CristinaProfilo.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_A0x0WSaeh_I/TMp_-9dY5MI/AAAAAAAAAL0/Hsm7dtitDI4/s72-c/TooMuchRum2-300x224.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4052446112609185980.post-1737331158260767148</id><published>2010-10-29T09:38:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2011-02-03T11:31:42.574+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='An Anthropologist in London'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='etnografia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='osservazione partecipante'/><title type='text'>A Place to Sleep (Searching for a Flat, Gossip, and the British Library)</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Searching for a flat in London is an experience I don’t wish upon my worst enemy. It exposes you to the weirdest humanity you can imagine meeting. It seems that all the borderlines of the world have gathered here with all their financial resources, and bought flats to rent out in an act of affirmation of their identity. Renting a flat or letting a flat is a matter of status, in fact. And newbies on both sides know and accept this. All except the last, who could care less about this rubbish: me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I’m not a Muslim woman willing to sharing a flat while waiting for the right one to whom to devote myself. I’m not the lesbian frightened by men to the point of not allowing – just in case – even my father to come, visit and sleep near me. Not to mention all the 20-something idiot girls I met who told me: “Sorry, but you seem to be too old to get on well with us” (in this last case I’m only upset I will not see you in the next 15 years, darling, when your life will be fucked up by an inconsiderate man and a couple of useless kids and you will wonder why you were so stupid to party every night instead of studying and building your means of survival).&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;But most of all I’m not the eco-vegan-animalist willing to recycle every tiny little thing I use to show how much I care about this planet: nice one, but on the contrary I think the best demonstration of my care for it would be to spread (and join) the proposal for a mass suicide of mankind as the friendliest act to let the earth regenerate by itself, and – hopefully – in less than one hundred years to forget the existence of human beings on its surface. But eco-vegan-animalists would never care enough for the cause to be the first ones to do it (at this point, dear reader, I want to enlighten you to the fact that – in case you are of such bad faith as to accuse me of instigation to suicide – I am not supporting this perspective in any way: mine is only a reasonable observation).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So I’m looking for a simple, clean, unpretentious place. Given all this background, my search is quite hard.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_A0x0WSaeh_I/TMqJxCHan8I/AAAAAAAAAMg/cH3jal_7JL4/s1600/gossip-225x300.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_A0x0WSaeh_I/TMqJxCHan8I/AAAAAAAAAMg/cH3jal_7JL4/s1600/gossip-225x300.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;I keep on looking on the internet at Gossip, a lovely café in &lt;a href="http://www.broadwaymarket.co.uk/welcome.html"&gt;Broadway Market&lt;/a&gt;. Yes, it’s fancy and elitist – in this renewed area which ten years ago was considered such a slum that people willing to open a business couldn’t get bank loans, and those working in the area had to come by taxi because they were afraid to use public buses. But now it’s a “stylish” area, where young people come on Saturday mornings to buy expensive organic food in the market and wander around all day showing themselves off. All dressed in the same, classical English style: tweeds, tartans, lots of wool pullovers, jackets, coats and scarves. All pale, with sad, depressed eyes giving the impression they are always about to faint. And all with the same haircut, the one that made me hate the Beatles from the very first moment I saw them.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br class="spacer_" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;The Gossip has wi-fi, a great selections of teas and two young people as staff who are supportive and let me stay there the whole day to search in exchange for the few teas I drink while almost “squatting” a table and a chair. I will never be able to thank the people here enough for their kindness and hospitality (in spite of the desperate room search).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_A0x0WSaeh_I/TMqJ2kpg7yI/AAAAAAAAAMk/-3fQsTo2zkw/s1600/british-library-01-300x218.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_A0x0WSaeh_I/TMqJ2kpg7yI/AAAAAAAAAMk/-3fQsTo2zkw/s1600/british-library-01-300x218.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Today I found another place whose destiny is to become “my place”: the &lt;a href="http://www.bl.uk/"&gt;British Library&lt;/a&gt;. A huge, modern building and a paradise for book lovers. Here, you don’t even understand how they check you, but they do, deeply. You can plug in your laptop anywhere and leave it (apparently) unguarded. You have a free wi-fi connection (but no chance to do any political activity through it) and gluten-free chocolate cakes (the only way I can survive, as all the other food costs too much for someone with celiac disease).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;I took off my shoes, since my left foot hurt, and realised after a while that I was walking around the library barefoot. “Whatever”. I sat on the floor and checked my email. My status on Facebook today says: “Cristina is still homeless but searching for a room at the free wi-fi hotspot in the British Library”. My punk attitude always comes out, aligned to my new conception of myself as somehow a snobbish newbie Londoner.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt; And, as I’m a part of it, my dear new co-citizens, can’t you let me sleep inside here for free? I feel safe here, among lively books you consider unanimated. “Adopt a book” – an advertisement inside says. Yeah, I’d rather pay for a book than for a room at this point. Would any of the books among the social sciences sector adopt me as well? I would feel “home” surrounded by them – and sleep quite cool and safe on the floor, imagining all the wonderful, surprising, unique and adventurous lives and stories they contain, and which my life will not be long enough to read.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4052446112609185980-1737331158260767148?l=videoculture.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://videoculture.blogspot.com/feeds/1737331158260767148/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://videoculture.blogspot.com/2010/01/place-to-sleep-searching-for-flat.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4052446112609185980/posts/default/1737331158260767148'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4052446112609185980/posts/default/1737331158260767148'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://videoculture.blogspot.com/2010/01/place-to-sleep-searching-for-flat.html' title='A Place to Sleep (Searching for a Flat, Gossip, and the British Library)'/><author><name>Cristina</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10320497324728266509</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hV709USIotE/TuoCHG8pS3I/AAAAAAAAAk4/hDtfiPnFwh8/s220/CristinaProfilo.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_A0x0WSaeh_I/TMqJxCHan8I/AAAAAAAAAMg/cH3jal_7JL4/s72-c/gossip-225x300.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4052446112609185980.post-160912628098897713</id><published>2010-10-09T18:47:00.043+02:00</published><updated>2011-01-19T15:47:28.881+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cibo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='identità culturale'/><title type='text'>Il senso degli altri. Cibo, identità e metissage</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_A0x0WSaeh_I/TMvSYjW_u9I/AAAAAAAAAM4/LLbHhxjX2vw/s1600/76184691.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_A0x0WSaeh_I/TMvSYjW_u9I/AAAAAAAAAM4/LLbHhxjX2vw/s1600/76184691.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Lo scorso 12 settembre, su proposta di Vittorio Castellani - Chef Kumalè, ho tenuto un incontro sul rapporto tra cibo, identità culturale e metissage nel contesto dell'iniziativa "Apettando Terre 2011" all'interno del festival &lt;a href="http://www.orienteoccidente.it/interne/home.aspx?ID=4225" style="color: red;"&gt;OrienteOccidente&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt; di Rovereto (TN).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt; &lt;a href="http://videoculture.myblog.it/media/02/01/482664526.pdf" style="color: red;" target="_blank" title="collegamento a Il senso degli altri. Cibo, identità e metissage"&gt;Il senso degli altri. Cibo, identità e metissage&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;Questo il testo, scaricabile gratuitamente.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4052446112609185980-160912628098897713?l=videoculture.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://videoculture.blogspot.com/feeds/160912628098897713/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://videoculture.blogspot.com/2010/10/il-senso-degli-altri-cibo-identita-e_09.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4052446112609185980/posts/default/160912628098897713'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4052446112609185980/posts/default/160912628098897713'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://videoculture.blogspot.com/2010/10/il-senso-degli-altri-cibo-identita-e_09.html' title='Il senso degli altri. Cibo, identità e metissage'/><author><name>Cristina</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10320497324728266509</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hV709USIotE/TuoCHG8pS3I/AAAAAAAAAk4/hDtfiPnFwh8/s220/CristinaProfilo.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_A0x0WSaeh_I/TMvSYjW_u9I/AAAAAAAAAM4/LLbHhxjX2vw/s72-c/76184691.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4052446112609185980.post-5965176883719585208</id><published>2010-02-17T09:43:00.033+01:00</published><updated>2010-11-03T07:55:00.008+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='An Anthropologist in London'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Un/Common Places'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='mappe'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='psicogeografia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='osservazione partecipante'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='identità culturale'/><title type='text'>Picturing London (The Map Room Is Open)</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Do not trust maps, in London, they don't tell the truth: what you think is nearby on the map, will always be elsewhere in the reality. Walking is something I do really enjoy. Covering neverending distances is something I enjoy less, but still is a wonderful way to get to know a place. When I don't walk, I observe this town from above: from the upper floor of the buses, from the windows ot the overground train crossing the houses at their somthing like second floor of the houses. And I grasp instants of people lives: a white man gardening the backyard of his place, a woman caring at her kids inside a sad grey block, a couple of gothics walking to reach Camden Lock. I take the chance of any interview and any step I do in my job search (yes, now I'm searching for a job - it seems there's always something to search for here in London, doesn't it?) to discover new areas of the town, but at the moment I mostly had the chance to explore - if you look at a standard map of London and use the Thames to split the north and the south of the town, and the City as 'hardcore' of all the issue - some east, some north-east, some north-centre and some south-east of the Thames.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;I had to meet Chris, a few days ago, at the &lt;a href="http://www.56a.org.uk/"&gt;56a Infoshop Social Centre&lt;/a&gt;. You can reach that place taking a couple of buses from Clapton Pond (where I live) to Walworth and, as I never give up any chance to play, I did it also this time. This means that, without any 'academic' intention about questioning issues such as place, standard maps, distances and cultural assumptions about the boroughs I was going through, I jumped on a bus, reached the upper floor and began shooting pics as a common tourist. I wasn't really interested in anything in particular. I just took a pic any time I had a question or some stupid reflections were coming up to my mind.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_A0x0WSaeh_I/TMqDGCTiv-I/AAAAAAAAAL8/UVYAWJpYopM/s1600/ClaptonPond-300x224.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_A0x0WSaeh_I/TMqDGCTiv-I/AAAAAAAAAL8/UVYAWJpYopM/s1600/ClaptonPond-300x224.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Clapton Pond seems like a fairytale, notwithstanding its poverty. A fountain, a small wood bridge, a few trees, and probably ducks (not in this season). In front of it, waiting for the bus, you are offered the sight of some anonymous shops and a phone box sunk in the cement of the pavement (it's a pretty traumatic experience calling from there, as the pavement itself is partially lift so that you are forced to assume a diagonal position with your body as well, and hope not to fall out of your centre of gravity).&lt;br /&gt;From the bus I take a few pics, perfectly knowing the areas of the town I'm in - and being able to figure them both in my mental map of London and in the memory I have of the standard map of it, but still... where are the borders among the different boroughs? And how comes that sometimes boroughs are not written in some maps, but smaller areas within them are? Which is the reason why a map includes the name of a smaller area and skips out the one of a bigger borough?&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_A0x0WSaeh_I/TMqDNklTeiI/AAAAAAAAAMA/uxuXxmVKAVI/s1600/fallenbuilding-224x300.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_A0x0WSaeh_I/TMqDNklTeiI/AAAAAAAAAMA/uxuXxmVKAVI/s1600/fallenbuilding-224x300.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;The freedom of enjoying this small trip gives me the chance to notice and joke about the places, so that I feel moved as I see a huge building in cement, glass and steel with two high wings... and something that seems just fallen down between them. I can imagine it desperately crying to the people walking quickly in the streets nearby, and I can hear its voice and story: "Hey, you, can you help? I'm a piece of the roof, I fell between the two wings of this building and it's so narrowed that I can't stand up anymore so to climb it and get back to my place... CAN SOMEONE HEEELP?!?!?!?!".&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br class="spacer_" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br class="spacer_" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br class="spacer_" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br class="spacer_" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br class="spacer_" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://exit-strategies.freedom-blogs.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/chrismap1.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_A0x0WSaeh_I/TMqDY-RirsI/AAAAAAAAAME/VWh8tyrT4cs/s1600/chrismap1-300x225.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_A0x0WSaeh_I/TMqDY-RirsI/AAAAAAAAAME/VWh8tyrT4cs/s1600/chrismap1-300x225.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mapfestival/"&gt;Chris (Captain Mapp)&lt;/a&gt; draws maps, and makes people do the same. Then he collects the works produced and organises exhibitions of them. I ask him what's next, when he leads a workshop or a walk with people, and they produce their maps of a place, or tell him their stories/memories about a neighbourhood in the past. "What's next? Nothing!" - he replies. All is spent in the dimension of the actualising, in a full situationist style.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;I got to know him whilst searching online for maps and mapping in London, and I met the project &lt;a href="http://www.56a.org.uk/maproom.html"&gt;“THE MAP ROOM (is open…)”&lt;/a&gt; – that exists also in reality as “suitcase” archives of maps, projects, festivals he produced (or led the production of)… The maps we are talking about are not the usual ones, with standard points of reference anybody could use to orientate in the space: they are subjective, emotional, symbolic, and mostly depict their author, his/her memories, points of view and desires. They reflect the sense of a place by those who live it, and for this reason both a (psycogeographer) artist and an anthropologist can be interested in them.  I’m starting wondering how an ethnographic project I have in my mind about the issue of “personal and collective identity” could match with his work and be developed by our different, but closed, gazes. One  of these days, I will find out the time to write a draft about it, and ask Chris to give me his feedbacks and work on it himself too.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;More pics here: &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/cristina29/sets/72157623433839966/%20"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;From Clapton Pond to Walworth&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4052446112609185980-5965176883719585208?l=videoculture.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://videoculture.blogspot.com/feeds/5965176883719585208/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://videoculture.blogspot.com/2010/02/picturing-london-map-room-is-open.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4052446112609185980/posts/default/5965176883719585208'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4052446112609185980/posts/default/5965176883719585208'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://videoculture.blogspot.com/2010/02/picturing-london-map-room-is-open.html' title='Picturing London (The Map Room Is Open)'/><author><name>Cristina</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10320497324728266509</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hV709USIotE/TuoCHG8pS3I/AAAAAAAAAk4/hDtfiPnFwh8/s220/CristinaProfilo.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_A0x0WSaeh_I/TMqDGCTiv-I/AAAAAAAAAL8/UVYAWJpYopM/s72-c/ClaptonPond-300x224.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4052446112609185980.post-1531222210775609732</id><published>2010-02-15T09:41:00.009+01:00</published><updated>2010-11-03T07:55:14.404+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='An Anthropologist in London'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cibo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='osservazione partecipante'/><title type='text'>A Multicultural Bazaar (Shops/Markets, Flea Markets, and Free Shops)</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;The first time I came to UK I was thirteen years old, and one of the things I still remember was the surprise I had by discovering you could get an ice-cream or a soft drink in a shop that sold newspapers as well. Another surprise was to see cigarettes sold in supermarkets, right nearby the cash desk. Comparing habits between different countries (and/or cultures) has become something I don't even realise I continuously do now, but at those times it was for me a real shock. Commercial licences in Italy are now a little less severe then before, but still cigarettes can't be sold in supermarkets (you find them only at the tabacconist, who can't sell food in the same shop), and you can find soft drinks whilst buying the newspaper only if you are in some fancy small shops selling anything in touristic areas.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Not much has changed here - by this point of view. Shops keep on selling different goods and giving different services at the same time in the same room. So you can get your mobile phone unlocked whilst waiting for your coat to be dry cleaned, or you can get a haircut whilst buying bags. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_A0x0WSaeh_I/TMqFV617orI/AAAAAAAAAMI/4QQnObq-ejA/s1600/shop2-300x224.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_A0x0WSaeh_I/TMqFV617orI/AAAAAAAAAMI/4QQnObq-ejA/s1600/shop2-300x224.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Whilst walking in Mare Street, I notice a huge amount of mobile phones hanging on the right side of the entrance of a butchery. "Can I take a pic of the shop for my blog?" - I ask. The guy stares at me, and replies "Ask the boss, over there". I enter this sort of grocery store, meet this man, likely from Middle East, and ask him the same question, explaining I will write an article about this issue as it's something unusual for us. "Really?", and then he turns and calls another guy, an even younger shop assistant. "Is it true that in Italy you need licences to open shops and sell goods?". This last guy looks at me and then at him and replies "Yes". And then asks me: "Sei italiana? Anche nel mio paese devi avere le licenze. Qui è davvero strano anche per me!" ("Are you Italian? In my country we need licences as well. Here is definitely weird for me too!"), and smiles. He is from Romania, but learnt a perfect Italian by watching Tv shows and cartoons whilst he was a kid - quite a common habit for Rumanians that became an unwilling learning strategy and then a useful competence when they turned adults. "I let you take a pic if you give me the article!" - shouts the owner from the back.  "Fine! You will see it on internet!" - I shout him back.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Another pleasant surprise about London is the existence of so many open air markets selling any kind of merchandise. Markets are wonderful places to grasp the mood of a place. You can experience different way of greeting and talking together between the people, you can understand much about the common food eaten in a place, the gender relationships issues, the city councils strategies to improve an area, the values and attitudes of those working or living nearby and so on. I had the chance to visit a few markets up now - quite different as goods sold. I already told about Broadway Market (where all the young creatives and artists of London Fields meet to buy expensive organic or imported food), and as well I did about Camden and its (fake) punk reminder. Let's switch to two new discoveries: Ridley Road and Brick Lane markets.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_A0x0WSaeh_I/TMqFgsZ7bEI/AAAAAAAAAMM/39YLRGj7meQ/s1600/DalstonKingslandMarket3-300x224.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_A0x0WSaeh_I/TMqFgsZ7bEI/AAAAAAAAAMM/39YLRGj7meQ/s1600/DalstonKingslandMarket3-300x224.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ridley_Road_Market"&gt;Ridley Road&lt;/a&gt; one (in the area of Dalston) is what is more closed to my personal experience of Italian open air markets: housewives meeting and comparing prices, people wandering about without a specific need, dealers shouting the freshness of the seafood they sell. Little differences are what I got used to notice: whilst in Italy you would have a stall assistant collecting for you the food on the quantity you require (kilos, hundreds grams) from a tidy pile of a specific vegetable or fruit, here you have the same product already split in different baskets, each of them going under a specific price (1 pound, 50 pence etc.). And, of course, the variety of imported goods is quite undelievable too, and reminds you constantly the colonial past of this land (not to mention the people themselves): I keep on wondering about the use of huge cactus limbs perfectly aligned nearby other fruit, and still old african men comfortably dressed in tunics and gym shoes - arguing about the quality of a yellow/golden/green coat coming from Ghana - attract my surprised gaze.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_A0x0WSaeh_I/TMqFo2o-g4I/AAAAAAAAAMQ/UTQ-sBzGr2M/s1600/BrickLaneMarket1-300x224.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_A0x0WSaeh_I/TMqFo2o-g4I/AAAAAAAAAMQ/UTQ-sBzGr2M/s1600/BrickLaneMarket1-300x224.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.visitbricklane.org/#/brick-lane-market/4537676886"&gt;Brick Lane&lt;/a&gt; is a flea market that take place on Sundays in Shoreditch. You can find quite a few used stuff there, ideally gatherable under the notions of 'posh snobbish vintage' on one side, and 'desperately sadly miserable' on the other. Nothing in between - apart from (stolen) bikes. But, as it always happens in these kind of makets, people can express their creativity in drawing the attention of potential custumers with odding strategies, such as  placing a perfectly functioning and switched on television right on the pavement nearby a rubbish tin.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;But the best DIY attitude is testified by an online resource for professional beggars: the &lt;a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/hackney_freecycle/"&gt;Hackney freecycle&lt;/a&gt;. Freecycle is online community of 'givers' and 'takers' under the notion that what is the garbage of a person can be a treasure for someone else. Membership is free, and everything posted must be free as well. Anything can be given, taken and recycled in different ways, using all your creativity to fullfill your needs. Brigida got four folding chairs that match perfectly the eco-style of her flat. I got an ink-jet printer Epson Stylus probably sold around 2001 that matches perfectly my old laptop bought in 2002, so that none of the two feels old-fashioned. And one day I will be able to find a black toner so not to have to use the blue left one in the space of the black - as I'm doing now. Or I will find a way to refill the toner myself, by buying some fresh black ink and probably wasting the half of it in my hands... Awww, whatever!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4052446112609185980-1531222210775609732?l=videoculture.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://videoculture.blogspot.com/feeds/1531222210775609732/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://videoculture.blogspot.com/2010/02/multicultural-bazaar-shopsmarkets-flea.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4052446112609185980/posts/default/1531222210775609732'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4052446112609185980/posts/default/1531222210775609732'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://videoculture.blogspot.com/2010/02/multicultural-bazaar-shopsmarkets-flea.html' title='A Multicultural Bazaar (Shops/Markets, Flea Markets, and Free Shops)'/><author><name>Cristina</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10320497324728266509</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hV709USIotE/TuoCHG8pS3I/AAAAAAAAAk4/hDtfiPnFwh8/s220/CristinaProfilo.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_A0x0WSaeh_I/TMqFV617orI/AAAAAAAAAMI/4QQnObq-ejA/s72-c/shop2-300x224.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4052446112609185980.post-255086125713177245</id><published>2010-02-09T09:39:00.023+01:00</published><updated>2010-11-03T07:55:28.843+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='An Anthropologist in London'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Banksy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='graffiti'/><title type='text'>The Conquer of a Space (Flat-hunting, a Room on My Own, and Banksy)</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_A0x0WSaeh_I/TMqG5M9uJgI/AAAAAAAAAMU/7wfoxyS-jdE/s1600/l_9c56aa7a4d814279a99d780042e8307e-200x300.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_A0x0WSaeh_I/TMqG5M9uJgI/AAAAAAAAAMU/7wfoxyS-jdE/s1600/l_9c56aa7a4d814279a99d780042e8307e-200x300.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;“There’s nothing more permanent then the temporary” (Greek said). But at least this time it was wrong: it took something like 20 days to found a place, but I eventually did. Mankind can be perverse when has to deal with the chance to gain money by any means, as you can desume by Mr &lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/captainoftherantpoetry"&gt;Captain of the Rant&lt;/a&gt;'s poem&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Trust In Stan - an ode to Estate Agents&lt;/i&gt;:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Hi there&lt;br /&gt;I'm Stan from Stan, Stan and Stan Estates&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How are you?&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Good good, I'm glad&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Glorious day, glorious day&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Except for the massive storm obviously&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Look at my hair!&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's a kind of gel&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's all crinkly and messed up&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's supposed to look casual&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But I spend five hours every morning&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Making it look just right&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Teeth shining like a shark's&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Look at my tie!&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pure penguin skin, I'm assured&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Spanking suit and sparkling shoes from Topman&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yes, this is a great area, great area&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That wasn't a gunshot you heard it was a dog bang-barking&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Concentrate on my voice&lt;br /&gt;My confident, fast-talking, I-know-my-business voice&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I love my job, you're my new best friend&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am a human being&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And I'm certainly not doing this for the money&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Anyway, this is the building&lt;br /&gt;Crumbling to death?&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No, no no&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's beautiful and archaic, isn't it?&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yes, of course it is.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Don't look at the front garden&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ignore the dead cats and used needles&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Concentrate on my face&lt;br /&gt;Look at my face&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Look at my face&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Let's go in&lt;br /&gt;This is the hallway&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No time to look at it properly&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What's that?&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Smells like a three week-old corpse that's been drowned in its own piss?&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oh, I love your sense of humour&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Let's go upstairs&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No wheelchair access&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But then again&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's their fault for pricing themselves out of the market&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By getting all crippled up&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Ignore what I say&lt;br /&gt;Just concentrate on the tone&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Look at my face&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Look at my face&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Right now, this is the flat&lt;br /&gt;It's very comfortable and compact&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This room is a bedroom slash kitchen slash bathroom&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That's not mould, it's just got a very lived in look&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Don't look at the mould!&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Look at my face&lt;br /&gt;Look at my face&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;There's no toilet as yet&lt;br /&gt;But there is a very deep sink in the kitchen&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And you look like the kind of practical person who will make do&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;do you like animals?&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Great, great&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then you won't mind the incredibly cute&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Special breed of rat-looking mice we installed just for you&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Oh look, there's ones now!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Look at my face&lt;br /&gt;Look at my face&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;What was that?&lt;br /&gt;Oh it's only nine hundred pounds a month&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Very cheap for this area&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And think about it this way:&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That's only a pound for every arrest a week in this borough&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And doesn't it make you feel safe?&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Look at my face&lt;br /&gt;Look at my face&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;So that's two months rent deposit&lt;br /&gt;And one month rent in advance&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And the cough contract handling fee cough&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Is a hundred pounds&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Those contracts are very heavy&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Agreed?&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fantastic.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sign here.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Brilliant.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pleasure doing business with you.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Are you getting the bus home?&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well, good luck, I'll probably pass you in my Merc&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Which you've helped pay for.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Have a great day.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br class="spacer_" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Immigrant among immigrants, as living now in a flat managed by a nice Turkish guy whose manners are much better then any Londoner landlord I met so far. What I hadn't for all these days made me think a lot about how important is what we usually take for granted: a warm place where to feel safe. And I’m feeling like a bird building her den, now, but by collecting pieces from bump hunting (as long as I don’t figurate myself as a desperate poor immigrant, but look at this research with curiosity and sense of adventure, is fine). I can perfectly understand Virginia Woolf’s &lt;i&gt;A &lt;i&gt;room&lt;/i&gt; of One's Own&lt;/i&gt;, and in my imagination – and in concrete facts – I’m playing as a kid having a coloring book.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_A0x0WSaeh_I/TMqHDBFnzmI/AAAAAAAAAMY/Buyxl_Qoh4Q/s1600/banksy11-300x244.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_A0x0WSaeh_I/TMqHDBFnzmI/AAAAAAAAAMY/Buyxl_Qoh4Q/s1600/banksy11-300x244.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;And then, again those graffiti, again those desperate, witty, sarcastic and high quality stencils. You get them everywhere in London's markets. But it can't be an institutional supported art this one - that shows two male policemen passionately kissing, or a member of the royal guards pissing on a wall whilst hoping nobody to see him, can it? I keep on wondering about its possible being an amazing market campaign, or some sort of “underground production”... I buy three posters (1 pound each in a 1-pound-each-product Middle Eastern shop), and once home I do some researches on the net: their author is a guy called Banksy.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banksy"&gt;Banksy&lt;/a&gt; is likely to live in Hackney, this Londoner borough I like so much and where I’m living at the moment. His works are – black&amp;amp;white, pure, essential but sharp – stencils with either the human subject, or monkeys, or rats. The issues he works about concern freedom, surveillance, responsibility, loneliness, death, violence, war, peace and hope in the contemporary society, and show a sharp mind, a quick deep thought and a rare ability in synthesis of words in messages (and messages in words).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Surprisingly, in reading about his work, you get his quotation “Some people become cops because they want to make the world a better place. Some people become vandals because they want to make the world a better looking place”. Well, I’m not pretty sure about the first, but for the latest you are quite wrong, my dear: in fact, as we can inscribe you in this category, with your art you make people think, and this already means promoting the change of the world (although we can never control the direction – or better the end spot – of the changes we promote) and not only his looking better.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_A0x0WSaeh_I/TMqHKPdqC4I/AAAAAAAAAMc/YD4NpE7gvOs/s1600/2805002953_d9561da3dd-300x225.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_A0x0WSaeh_I/TMqHKPdqC4I/AAAAAAAAAMc/YD4NpE7gvOs/s1600/2805002953_d9561da3dd-300x225.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;So don’t think about skipping your merits nor you faults: in a word, your “responsibilities”. A pic of your graffiti with the guy holding the sign that says “Keep your coins. I WANT CHANGE” is in front of me now. I stare at it, and look for strategies to make this happen, in a big personal blast, with both my usual critical consciousness towards the society, and the lightness of your cute, tender girl making soap bubbles.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4052446112609185980-255086125713177245?l=videoculture.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://videoculture.blogspot.com/feeds/255086125713177245/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://videoculture.blogspot.com/2010/02/conquer-of-space-flat-hunting-room-on.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4052446112609185980/posts/default/255086125713177245'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4052446112609185980/posts/default/255086125713177245'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://videoculture.blogspot.com/2010/02/conquer-of-space-flat-hunting-room-on.html' title='The Conquer of a Space (Flat-hunting, a Room on My Own, and Banksy)'/><author><name>Cristina</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10320497324728266509</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hV709USIotE/TuoCHG8pS3I/AAAAAAAAAk4/hDtfiPnFwh8/s220/CristinaProfilo.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_A0x0WSaeh_I/TMqG5M9uJgI/AAAAAAAAAMU/7wfoxyS-jdE/s72-c/l_9c56aa7a4d814279a99d780042e8307e-200x300.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4052446112609185980.post-2659841312303244493</id><published>2009-02-20T18:56:00.009+01:00</published><updated>2010-11-03T08:01:26.287+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='luogo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Etnografia dello spazio urbano'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='casa'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='osservazione partecipante'/><title type='text'>Etnografia dello spazio urbano III - Povertà, ristrutturazioni, la 'nostra' casa</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;All’inizio era un complesso di case popolari. Edificate negli anni ’50, i criteri estetici che ne erano alla base avevano fatto esclamare a un’amica bulgara “Sembrano proprio casa mia!”. Gli isolati si ripetevano uguali, composti di edifici squadrati di quattro piani che richiudevano al loro interno cortili in terra battuta adibita a improprio e spartano parcheggio. Nessun bambino vi avrebbe mai potuto giocare.&lt;br /&gt;La povertà regnava (e regna) sovrana e la si poteva riconoscere con qualsiasi organo di senso. Dalla finestra si scorgono ancora adesso balconi pieni di cianfrusaglie ivi depositate in tempi remoti e dimenticate, protette da tele cerate a mo’ di tende che sbattono con un rumore accartocciato e sordo nelle luminose giornate di vento. In estete voci dialettali e voci straniere si mescolano a odori di fritto e di sugo di pomodoro per entrare in casa e ricordarti che quello è il tuo rifugio, ma che non sei mai solo – qualsiasi cosa ti possa accadere.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Per mia nonna questo alloggio era il suo regno, conquistato a fatica e segno del ‘benessere’ raggiunto con il lavoro e il risparmio. Ben diverso da come è oggi - dopo che vi ho messo le mani io trasformandolo nello spazio di una professionista 35enne – aveva ai miei occhi di bambina un aspetto datato, triste e un po’ stantio, pur se mia nonna passava il tempo a tirarlo a lucido. L’aria dimessa dell’appartamento era comune a tutto il palazzo. Bianche le pareti degli alloggi, in legno i mobili a esclusione di quelli in plastica della cucina. Allo stesso modo, bianche erano le pareti delle scale, in marmo i gradini, in legno il mancorrente. Giallina pallida la facciata esterna. Nulla doveva risaltare, nessun cambiamento era possibile: poveri eravamo e poveri dovevamo rimanere.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ignoro come passammo dall’essere inquilini di casa popolare – grazie a quella subdola matrona di mia nonna che aveva trafficato attraverso un prete per entrare nella graduatoria degli aventi diritto – a proprietari dell’alloggio in questione. So che piano piano tutti i vari inquilini dei vari alloggi riuscirono anch’essi ad acquistarli o a farli acquistare da fratelli, sorelle, nipoti così da creare (salvo per quanto riguarda noi, dato che nel nostro caso la famiglia è sempre stata composta da quattro gatti) una trama di relazioni così che ancora oggi anziché telefonarsi o andarsi a fare visita si aggiornano quotidianamente sulle reciproche condizioni di salute urlando da balcone a balcone.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img alt="esterno2.jpg" height="273" src="http://videoculture.myblog.it/images/esterno2.jpg" style="border-width: 0pt; float: left; margin: 0.2em 1.4em 0.7em 0pt;" width="206" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;L’alloggio al secondo piano venne ‘rinfrescato’ alcuni anni fa. Poi io buttai giù le pareti del mio e colorai in lilla e bordeaux il mio ‘castello’ (così lo chiamarono gli altri inquilini del palazzo che videro passare per settimane piastrelle, palchetti in legno, sanitari nuovi e mobili IKEA comprati appositamente). Infine anche al piano rialzato il giovane proprietario buttò giù parte delle pareti e si lanciò nel dipingere quelle rimanenti in viola e verde acqua.&lt;br /&gt;L’euforia ristrutturante attraversò come una scossa elettrica la tromba delle scale e a questo punto i condomini ripresero il vecchio progetto sino a quel momento accantonato di installare finalmente un ascensore, rosicando qualche centimetro a quattro piani di gradini. E così fu. Uno scafandro di non particolare bellezza salvò le gambe e i polmoni di quelli che invecchiavano e destò una rinnovata gioia nei neopensionati che, forse in cerca di nuove battaglie, proposero di riverniciare la tromba delle scale e, di già che c’erano, cambiare il vecchio portone d’ingresso – invero molto buio – con uno nuovo, anch’esso in legno, ma dotato di aperture vetrate per lasciar passare la luce. Si fece anche quello.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Il fervore e l’orgoglio dell’appartenenza a – e del possesso di – uno spazio che pur nella sua modestia diventava sempre più gradevole aprì all’impegno individuale a svuotare le aree comuni delle cantine dalle macerie abbandonate nel tempo, passando attraverso i rimbrotti a chi parcheggiava temporaneamente passeggini o biciclette nel piccolo androne e alla critica alla pulizia sommaria del condominio da parte dell’impresa scelta dall’amministratore. Insomma: i condomini si rivelavano sempre più attenti, gelosi e orgogliosi del palazzo fino a giungere alla decisione di lanciarsi nell’impresa della ristrutturazione delle facciate esterne.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img alt="esterno1.jpg" height="239" src="http://videoculture.myblog.it/images/esterno1.jpg" style="border-width: 0pt; float: right; margin: 0.2em 0pt 1.4em 0.7em;" width="319" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Anni addietro, su una di queste, un tifoso granata aveva scritto “Tororo” (?) con tanto di corna sulla prima ‘o’ che faceva sorridere benevolmente del suo entusiasmo, che l’aveva portato a raddoppiare la seconda sillaba della sua squadra del cuore, chiunque leggesse. Un ponteggio mobile ora lo cancellava e, pur rimanendo l’obbligo di sostituire il color canarino precedente con un’altra anonima vernice gialla, ci prendemmo la libertà di darne tante mani da renderla quasi un ocra. In un guizzo estremo di fantasia e presunzione, infine, facemmo installare tubature per lo scolo dell’acqua piovana in rame all’esterno del palazzo e quando fu libero dai ponteggi a guardarlo dalla strada concordammo soddisfatti che il lavoro era venuto proprio bene. Ci montammo la testa affermando che "aveva qualcosa del Beaubourg" e da quel momento in poi ci sentimmo davvero ricchi.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4052446112609185980-2659841312303244493?l=videoculture.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://videoculture.blogspot.com/feeds/2659841312303244493/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://videoculture.blogspot.com/2009/02/etnografia-dello-spazio-urbano-iii.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4052446112609185980/posts/default/2659841312303244493'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4052446112609185980/posts/default/2659841312303244493'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://videoculture.blogspot.com/2009/02/etnografia-dello-spazio-urbano-iii.html' title='Etnografia dello spazio urbano III - Povertà, ristrutturazioni, la &apos;nostra&apos; casa'/><author><name>Cristina</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10320497324728266509</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hV709USIotE/TuoCHG8pS3I/AAAAAAAAAk4/hDtfiPnFwh8/s220/CristinaProfilo.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4052446112609185980.post-4209143787224778756</id><published>2008-12-04T19:51:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2010-10-29T12:06:31.522+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='etnografia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ricerca sul campo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='arte'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='teatro'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='osservazione partecipante'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='identità culturale'/><title type='text'>Identità in scena. Etnografia del caso AlmaTeatro (1993-2003)</title><content type='html'>&lt;img alt="f3934ae9cec2d7e1c12347b44616ea43.jpg" height="352" id="media-189925" name="media-189925" src="http://videoculture.myblog.it/images/data.jpg" style="border-width: 0pt; float: right; margin: 0.2em 0pt 1.4em 0.7em;" width="236" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cristina Balma Tivola [2008]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Identità in scena. Etnografia del caso AlmaTeatro (1993-2003)&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Roma. Aracne&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="right"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"&gt;Rapporti nuovi, e non estetiche o contenuti nuovi  invadono l’habitat identificabile del teatro, occupandone le periferie e inserendosi in posti e ambiti prima impensabili.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="right"&gt;&lt;div align="right"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"&gt;Non è un “altro teatro” che nasce.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="right"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"&gt;Altre situazioni cominciano ad essere chiamate teatro.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="right"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"&gt;La necessità personale diventa azione, varca i confini e si addentra nella storia.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="right"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"&gt;[Eugenio Barba]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nell’autunno del 1995 un’associazione culturale che frequentavo organizzò alcune giornate di incontro tra italiani e migranti. Una di quelle sere venne anche proposto uno spettacolo teatrale relativo alla condizione delle donne nel contesto della migrazione: tale spettacolo era&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Righibé&lt;/i&gt;, allestito da una compagnia interculturale di sole donne – l’AlmaTeatro. La mia ricerca sull’attività di questa compagnia è cominciata un paio d’anni dopo, nella seconda metà del 1997, e si è sviluppata sino a tutto il 2003, abbracciando pertanto quasi sette anni di esperienze ed eventi nella storia di questa realtà, così come di cambiamenti sostanziali sia interni a essa (nella composizione del gruppo, nella percezione di sé da parte delle protagoniste, nelle relazioni con le altre attrici/registe, nella concezione del proprio ruolo, nella scelta delle tematiche da approfondire e/ nei modi in cui portarle in scena), sia esterni (nel rapporto con le istituzioni locali, con altre esperienze/realtà teatrali – non solo interculturali – e/o con la società italiana). In particolare, il mio primo periodo di ricerca sul campo comincia nella primavera del 1997 e si protrae fino a luglio del 1999. Un secondo periodo di frequentazione mi vede invece impegnata a seguire le attività di AlmaTeatro nel corso del lavoro di ricerca del dottorato, tra l’ottobre del 2001 e il dicembre 2003.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"&gt;Nel corso degli anni di ricerca sul campo ho partecipato in maniera continuativa alla vita collettiva di AlmaTeatro, sebbene mi fosse di fatto impossibile frequentare contemporaneamente tutte le attività (produzione di spettacoli propri, ricerca su tematiche specifiche, didattica dell’intercultura attraverso l’azione teatrale, conduzione di laboratori sul territorio ecc.) in cui è solitamente impegnata la compagnia. Il mio obiettivo è stato quello di verificare interessi, obiettivi e &lt;i&gt;modus operandi&lt;/i&gt; di un teatro interessato ad agire interculturalmente nel contesto delle interazioni e dei processi culturali propri della società contemporanea e – nel perseguire tale scopo – ho analizzato il caso di una specifica realtà teatrale, nata e sviluppatasi in Italia, le cui componenti sono di diversa origine/appartenenza culturale, ma di comune identità di genere. Il mio interesse nei confronti di AlmaTeatro è legato alla modalità particolare con cui vengono concepiti dalle protagoniste stesse dell’esperienza i contenuti sviluppati e approfonditi negli spettacoli (piano della riflessione socioculturale) e il lavoro di messa in scena di questi (piano del lavoro artistico e dell’intervento socioculturale) – entrambi, a mio avviso, originali e ancora attuali.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"&gt;Questo lavoro ruota intorno alla questione dell’identità, che nel caso di AlmaTeatro prevede una declinazione di genere e una declinazione culturale, un piano individuale e uno collettivo, un contesto extrateatrale di riflessione/elaborazione di contenuti e un contesto teatrale di proposta e restituzione in scena dei medesimi. Il primo capitolo fornisce alcuni spunti sul processo culturale nelle società contemporanee rispetto al quale si situa l’azione della compagnia e del teatro interculturale più in generale. Qui le intersezioni di immaginari e alterità alla base dell’organizzazione culturale di quello che Hannerz definisce l’“ecomune globale”, provocano cambiamenti nella costruzione e collocazione di sé degli individui, nell’elaborazione da parte di questi delle rappresentazioni di sé e dell’“altro” culturale, nelle relazioni che soggiacciono tra gli interlocutori della relazione. Il secondo capitolo presenta un’altra premessa teorica utile per l’interpretazione della realtà che costituisce l’oggetto della presente ricerca: l’analisi del rapporto teatro-società secondo Victor Turner e la trascrizione di alcune ipotesi relative alle possibili classificazioni del “teatro interculturale” inteso come “genere”. Un terzo capitolo è dedicato alla rassegna delle realtà ed esperienze teatrali interculturali presenti in Italia negli ultimi due decenni e delle loro specificità – che vengono altresì verificate in un’analisi comparata di interessi, modalità d’azione e interazioni col mercato.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"&gt;I capitoli successivi si concentrano sull’analisi della compagnia AlmaTeatro. Nel quarto viene ricostruito il percorso storico della realtà in questione, tanto all’interno della comunità più ampia rappresentata dal Centro Interculturale delle Donne “Alma Mater” (presso il quale ha la propria sede) e dall’Associazione “AlmaTerra” (dalla quale dipende formalmente e con la quale è in costante relazione), quanto all’esterno nella più ampia comunità locale e nazionale), le motivazioni della sua nascita e del suo sviluppo, nonché le sue specificità (culturali, di genere, teatrali) e attività – con una particolare attenzione all’interpretazione (antropologica e teatrale) degli spettacoli, essendo l’attività performativa quella che costituisce l’ambito di espressione “sovrano” della sua esistenza. Il quinto capitolo illustra la situazione al momento della chiusura del mio lavoro sul campo, verificando la questione delle relazioni (anche di potere) che intercorrono nella compagnia e il rapporto di questa col “mercato” esterno. Il sesto capitolo approfondisce il trattamento della “questione identitaria” negli spettacoli e nelle discussioni di AlmaTeatro, analizzando il modo in cui vengono concepite e rielaborate – sia dalle singole, sia dalla compagnia – “identità di genere” e “identità/diversità culturale”, così come i modi in cui tali particolari discorsi culturali vengono portati in scena – concludendo la riflessione con l’analisi e interpretazione dei modi in cui il gruppo procede alla propria definizione di sé come collettivo teatrale.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"&gt;Il capitolo conclusivo, infine, mette in relazione l’attività, i problemi e le relazioni esperiti in AlmaTeatro con il processo del “discorso interculturale” proprio delle società multiculturali contemporanee. La questione interculturale è ancora trattata in Italia come una questione d’emergenza: come tale viene dipinta dai media – nonostante i dati confermino che l’immigrazione nel nostro Paese sia un fenomeno ormai strutturale – e con gli strumenti dell’emergenza vi si reagisce a livello legislativo e comunicativo, innescando un circolo vizioso di errori interpretativi e allarmismi ingiustificati. "Mi chiedi se riusciamo a cambiare le cose?... Noi ci proviamo", mi rispose un giorno un'attrice di ALmaTeatro. Il mio lavoro di ricerca presso la compagnia è stato l’indagine di questo tentativo. E, a mia volta, attraverso questa ricerca, ho dato risposte – soggettive, parziali, transitorie – agli interrogativi relativi alle ragioni che costituiscono il fondamento della mia stessa partecipazione al processo culturale.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4052446112609185980-4209143787224778756?l=videoculture.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://videoculture.blogspot.com/feeds/4209143787224778756/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://videoculture.blogspot.com/2008/12/identita-in-scena-etnografia-del-caso.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4052446112609185980/posts/default/4209143787224778756'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4052446112609185980/posts/default/4209143787224778756'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://videoculture.blogspot.com/2008/12/identita-in-scena-etnografia-del-caso.html' title='Identità in scena. Etnografia del caso AlmaTeatro (1993-2003)'/><author><name>Cristina</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10320497324728266509</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hV709USIotE/TuoCHG8pS3I/AAAAAAAAAk4/hDtfiPnFwh8/s220/CristinaProfilo.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4052446112609185980.post-1234393797623618529</id><published>2008-01-06T18:59:00.006+01:00</published><updated>2010-11-03T08:01:32.046+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='luogo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='mappe'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Etnografia dello spazio urbano'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='casa'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='osservazione partecipante'/><title type='text'>Etnografia dello spazio urbano II – La mia ‘mappa cognitiva’, negozi, nuovi ‘amici’</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Cambiare casa e andare a vivere in un’altra città, o anche solo in un altro quartiere, significa dover sviluppare una nuova ‘mappa’ di punti di riferimento necessari per le attività fondamentali dell’esistenza quotidiana. E per conoscere un posto nuovo per me non c’è modo migliore di camminarci dentro - sentendone odori e suoni.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I primi giorni in cui abitavo nella casa nuova la mia esplorazione del quartiere si fermava a brevi puntate verso la latteria e la panetteria. La latteria era un negozio d’altri tempi con due porte di ingresso. Una apriva sul lato bar, dove un semplice bancone con la macchina del caffè, un tavolo con la tovaglia a quadri bianca e rossa e quattro sedie ospitavano anziani clienti al mattino e muratori e operai all’ora di pranzo. L’altra porta apriva sulla latteria vera e propria, un ambiente piccolo con uno scaffale refrigerato per i latticini. A fianco della latteria, una panetteria con il forno annesso aveva un aspetto decisamente più moderno, ma anche standardizzato - con il mobilio in legno chiaro grezzo. Una volta questo negozio era più piccolo e i prodotti si ammucchiavano in un caldo e denso disordine. Mio nonno, ogni Natale, comperava qui il pandoro e non perdeva mai l’occasione di acquistare anche un paio di numeri della ‘lotteria della panetteria’ – un’iniziativa che illustra bene la dimensione ‘locale’ della quale sto parlando. Le nostre vincite, in questo caso, si limitavano a una bottiglia di spumante di qualche marca di media qualità.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Come me - e con me - mio nonno paterno amava camminare. Mi prendeva per mano - avevo sei/sette anni - e mi portava in giro nel suo tentativo quotidiano di prendersi qualche ora d’aria da mia nonna. Compravamo per lo più in panetteria: mio nonno si faceva mettere da parte il pane e altre cose, pagava e vi lasciava le borse in consegna per poi riprenderla al ritorno. Poi proseguivamo fino dal giornalaio - un tifoso sfegatato del Torino come tutta la mia famiglia – dove chiedevamo&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;La Stampa&lt;/i&gt; e a me, se era già uscito, &lt;i&gt;Topolino&lt;/i&gt;. La gestione dell’edicola oggi cambia in continuazione e ogni sabato che mi permetto l’acquisto de &lt;i&gt;La Repubblica&lt;/i&gt; non so mai se la troverò aperta o chiusa.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nelle passeggiate di un tempo la tappa successiva era dalla verduriera, dove gli acquisti terminavano. Ultimamente, una sera, sono entrata in questo negozio alla ricerca di un limone e, appena varcata la soglia, mi ha investito l’odore che c’era già trent’anni fa – odore di mobili vecchi, conserva di pomodoro fatta in casa, cassette di cipolle. Mio nonno, con la sua cortesia piemontese, si intratteneva a lungo a parlare con lei (così come con tutte le commesse e le signore del vicinato, a dire il vero), per poi cercare di nuovo la mia mano e riprendere poco convinto la strada di casa.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Camminava molto, molto, molto lentamente e quasi sempre mi faceva giocare ancora una mezz’ora nei giardini davanti al giornalaio, per poi fermarci ulteriormente al bar dell’angolo, dove prendevamo l’aperitivo – un Punt-è-Mes lui, un Crodino io – leggendo ognuno il proprio giornale.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La ‘mappa’ di mio nonno prevedeva spostamenti verso sinistra. La mia attuale verso destra. Niente politica - solo l’asse sul quale si situano i nostri negozi e locali preferiti. Salvo per la panetteria, i servizi più utili per me sono nella direzione opposta. I primi tempi in cui vivevo qui, non potendomi preparare la colazione in casa, sperimentai tutti i bar della zona alla ricerca del caffè migliore. Su un angolo diverso da quello del caffé scelto da mio nonno, ho trovato il ‘mio’ bar. Col proprietario ormai siamo in confidenza, ci siamo raccontati le nostre storie e ci chiamiamo per nome, sempre mantenendo una gentilezza e una riservatezza ‘sabauda’ – nel loro caso acquisita, nel mio meticcia. Poi ci sono la tabaccheria, con la commessa africana che parla con un accento piemontese più forte del mio, e l'ufficio postale, dal quale partono i miei pacchi per l'altra parte del mondo che tanta perplessità e curiosità suscitano negli impiegati che mi aiutano a spedirli.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Nella notte, infine, in questa zona c’è sempre la certezza di mangiare qualcosa: sull’altro angolo del corso un chiosco dei panini vende salsicce e verdure di dubbia conservazione, ma quando la fame è disperata pure quello va bene. A volte ci vado tornando dai miei giri serali e bevo qualcosa con il gestore, la commessa rumena e i militari in libera uscita della caserma di fronte. Lascio parlare ciascuno a ruota libera, ascolto pezzi di vita e in qualche modo sono felice della diversità che mi ritrovo anche sotto casa. Talvolta questi ragazzi mi accompagnano fino al portone. In altri casi sono da sola e cammino rasente i muri dell’azienda telefonica, nei cui anfratti si riparano con scatoloni e coperte i senzatetto.&lt;br /&gt;Il mio ritorno è protetto in ogni caso: dalle telecamere di sorveglianza, da vicini affettuosi quanto poco riservati, dai mille occhi dietro le tende e le finestre di vecchiette incapaci di dormire – nuovi ‘amici’, nuovi angeli custodi.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4052446112609185980-1234393797623618529?l=videoculture.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://videoculture.blogspot.com/feeds/1234393797623618529/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://videoculture.blogspot.com/2008/01/etnografia-dello-spazio-urbano-ii-la.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4052446112609185980/posts/default/1234393797623618529'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4052446112609185980/posts/default/1234393797623618529'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://videoculture.blogspot.com/2008/01/etnografia-dello-spazio-urbano-ii-la.html' title='Etnografia dello spazio urbano II – La mia ‘mappa cognitiva’, negozi, nuovi ‘amici’'/><author><name>Cristina</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10320497324728266509</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hV709USIotE/TuoCHG8pS3I/AAAAAAAAAk4/hDtfiPnFwh8/s220/CristinaProfilo.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4052446112609185980.post-681468723645155529</id><published>2007-12-25T19:49:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2010-10-28T19:50:10.972+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='video'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='antropologia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='identità culturale'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cultura'/><title type='text'>Video "Identità culturale" online</title><content type='html'>&lt;p align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Disponibile da oggi su YouTube il mio video &lt;a href="http://it.youtube.com/watch?v=2O_IjeaqXzs" title="collegamento a Identità culturale" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff0000;"&gt;Identità culturale&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, realizzato nel 2003 e ispirato a &lt;i&gt;Lo studio dell'uomo&lt;/i&gt; di Ralph Linton.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Il tema dell’identità culturale è oggi al centro delle riflessioni in diversi ambiti della ricerca sociale. In un mondo in corso di globalizzazione economica e culturale, in cui gli stessi ricercatori sociali si trovano su interpretazioni distanti se non contrapposte, si sentono frequentemente nazioni, comunità, popolazioni rivendicare il diritto alla propria identità etnica e culturale, si vedono simboli, abitudini e valori accorpati per distinguere certi gruppi da altri, si cercano origini e legami col territorio che giustifichino la purezza di una ‘stirpe’ arrivando, nei casi più estremi, all’invenzione della tradizione.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Di fronte a una situazione del genere esiste di fatto uno ‘scollamento’ tra la dimensione dell’esperienza della realtà quotidiana e la dimensione della riflessione che i ricercatori, preposti a fare ciò, operano su tale esperienza e tale frattura porta le persone che vivono l’una o l’altra delle due dimensioni a ‘perdere’ quelle possibilità di conoscenza e comunicazione reciproca sulla realtà che sarebbero prioritarie e sostanziali per l’esistenza di entrambe.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Un giorno, mentre leggevo&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Lo studio dell’uomo&lt;/i&gt; di Ralph Linton, pensai che se quei contenuti sociali e culturali ‘seri’ fossero stati espressi in forma di gioco visivo, forse anche spettatori abituati a percezioni veloci e ‘leggere’ come quelle di videoclip e spot pubblicitari si sarebbero soffermati a seguire il gioco proposto e così, inconsciamente, ad apprendere un contenuto complesso e soprattutto a ri-conoscere sotto un’altra luce ciò che già vivono abitualmente.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="255" width="306" data="http://www.youtube.com/v/2O_IjeaqXzs&amp;amp;rel=0&amp;amp;color1=0x2b405b&amp;amp;color2=0x6b8ab6&amp;amp;border=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"&gt;&lt;param name="quality" value="high" /&gt;&lt;param name="menu" value="false" /&gt;&lt;param name="src" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/2O_IjeaqXzs&amp;amp;rel=0&amp;amp;color1=0x2b405b&amp;amp;color2=0x6b8ab6&amp;amp;border=0" /&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Linton scriveva a proposito dell’uomo ‘occidentale’, ma dalla prima edizione del suo lavoro sono passati decenni. Ciò che egli sottolineava allora è oggi applicabile alla grande maggioranza della popolazione mondiale, pur se con le declinazioni locali di elementi, gusti, lingue, abitudini. Il testo di Linton, come anche riflessioni più recenti elaborate da altri autori (si pensi ad Appadurai, Amselle, Hennerz, Clifford), discute dell’identità etnica e culturale del singolo nelle società complesse contemporanee, dimostrando come le nostre identità siano in realtà frutto di secoli di mescolanze di lingue, costumi, fedi religiose, politiche, arti espressive ed estetiche, quando non più semplicemente adozione dall’esterno di oggetti d’uso comune e quotidiano.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Il mio tentativo è stato quello di trovare una nuova forma espressiva a tale comunicazione, una forma espressiva che permettesse a tutti le persone che abitano in questo mondo - indipendentemente dai livelli di competenza nell’analizzarne le dinamiche - di riconoscere alcune caratteristiche della propria vita quotidiana come frutto di ibridazioni e quindi promuovesse in loro una maggiore apertura alla diversità e al dialogo tra reciproci ‘altri’ che la storia dell’uomo ha già provveduto in passato a non essere così distanti e così ‘irriducibili’ reciprocamente.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4052446112609185980-681468723645155529?l=videoculture.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://videoculture.blogspot.com/feeds/681468723645155529/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://videoculture.blogspot.com/2007/12/video-identita-culturale-online.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4052446112609185980/posts/default/681468723645155529'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4052446112609185980/posts/default/681468723645155529'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://videoculture.blogspot.com/2007/12/video-identita-culturale-online.html' title='Video &quot;Identità culturale&quot; online'/><author><name>Cristina</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10320497324728266509</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hV709USIotE/TuoCHG8pS3I/AAAAAAAAAk4/hDtfiPnFwh8/s220/CristinaProfilo.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4052446112609185980.post-9100449462724500001</id><published>2007-12-15T19:03:00.009+01:00</published><updated>2010-11-03T08:01:37.074+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='luogo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='mappe'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Etnografia dello spazio urbano'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='casa'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='osservazione partecipante'/><title type='text'>Etnografia dello spazio urbano I - La nuova casa, un’atmosfera famigliare, il palazzo di fronte</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://maps.google.it/maps?f=q&amp;amp;hl=it&amp;amp;geocode=&amp;amp;time=&amp;amp;date=&amp;amp;ttype=&amp;amp;q=torino&amp;amp;ie=UTF8&amp;amp;ll=45.044252,7.661483&amp;amp;spn=0.00373,0.009956&amp;amp;t=k&amp;amp;z=17&amp;amp;om=1" target="_blank" title="collegamento a mappa su GoogleMaps"&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;Torino: Via Ardigò, via Giordano Bruno, Via Galuppi, Corso Unione Sovietica.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Sono venuta ad abitare qui nell’agosto del 2004. L’alloggio è quello dei miei nonni, ristrutturato a mia misura per farne la MIA casa, quella alla quale poter tornare periodicamente - nel resto della vita - qualsiasi scelta, viaggio, spostamento temporaneo avessi deciso di fare.&lt;br /&gt;Non abitavo qui nel periodo in cui ci vivevano i miei nonni, ma l’odore delle pietanze preparate per pranzo è qualcosa rimasto invariato da trenta anni e suona famigliare e protettivo alle mie narici. Questa è la ragione per la quale in questa casa mi sento così al sicuro e tranquilla – rispetto alla casa precedente in cui la sensazione di estraneità e pericolo erano costanti.&lt;br /&gt;Un’altra ragione di questa nuova (vecchia) sensazione è sicuramente dovuta alla struttura stessa del palazzo, un’ex-casa popolare, come erano tutte quelle presenti in questa zona con le quali condivide la medesima semplice e scarna fisionomia.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img alt="ba2167f4e9ecd777d141e31c15b61a7c.jpg" height="205" id="media-163892" name="media-163892" src="http://videoculture.myblog.it/media/00/01/ba2167f4e9ecd777d141e31c15b61a7c.jpg" style="border-width: 0pt; float: right; margin: 0.2em 0pt 1em 1em;" width="275" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Niente di speciale e tutto molto ‘vicino’. Tale prossimità ai miei dirimpettai era un’esperienza inedita, quando mi sono trasferita qui: l’alloggio in cui avevo vissuto sino a quel momento era al decimo (ultimo) piano e non aveva nulla intorno – solo il vuoto – e da lì si vedevano le colline da un lato e le montagne dall’altro.&lt;br /&gt;Ora avevo dei vicini! Cominciai a chiedermi chi fossero e come vivessero. La mia curiosità antropologica e il mio desiderio di osservare e immaginare vennero profondamente stimolati, ma d’altra parte, essendo a mia volta persona riservata, mi fermai a pochi dettagli e non indagai oltre.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img alt="40e57475ba1e4ca407b58f48f6ab9be5.jpg" height="167" id="media-163896" name="media-163896" src="http://videoculture.myblog.it/media/00/01/40e57475ba1e4ca407b58f48f6ab9be5.jpg" style="border-width: 0pt; float: left; margin: 0.2em 1em 1em 0pt;" width="224" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Verificai che la mia dirimpettaia, dall’altro lato della strada al medesimo piano, era una ragazza straniera – desumevo ciò dai suoi tratti somatici – ma non compresi subito la sua origine culturale. Nell’appartamento sotto il suo c’era invece una ragazza visibilmente orientale, che passava la maggior parte del tempo a lavare, stendere, bagnare i fiori e telefonare. Provai infine un'invidia pazzesca per le piante di quelli che vivevano al secondo piano del medesimo palazzo, che erano riusciti a rendere il loro balcone una ricchissima serra.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Iniziai a vivere qui nel momento in cui cominciai la scrittura della tesi di dottorato. Al tempo era ‘abitabile’ solo la camera da letto e il bagno, anche se in questo non c’era ancora l’acqua calda (ed essendo estate ciò non rappresentava un problema). Il mio tempo lo passavo interamente al computer nell’area studio della camera - di fronte alla quale c’era appunto quest'altro palazzo.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tenevo le finestre aperte e il pomeriggio il sole colpiva in pieno la zona notte, riscaldandola ulteriormente. Conobbi ‘a distanza’, e con profondo disappunto, il ragazzino adolescente del terzo piano (sempre nel palazzo di fronte), il quale – approfittando dell’assenza dei genitori – passava i pomeriggi ad ascoltare la radio al massimo volume, riempiendo questa piccola via di soli quattro numeri civici della peggiore musica commerciale in circolazione. Le maledizioni e le minacce di chiamare le forze dell’ordine che puntualmente lo raggiungevano dai diversi balconi nei pomeriggi afosi mi permisero di conoscere i volti di metà degli abitanti di queste case – ciascuno con la propria modalità di comunicazione verbale e imprecazione. Era tutto molto ‘folk’.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ero entusiasta d’avere finalmente uno spazio mio. Immaginavo che sarei stata finalmente disordinata e caotica come – di fatto – sono, ma alla fine diventai maniacale e ordinatissima, come un animale che protegge la sua tana.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Scrivevo tutto il giorno e a metà del pomeriggio mi concedevo una merenda o un the. Le mie pause coincidevano con quelle della mia dirimpettaia straniera, la quale ogni tanto andava sul balcone a fumarsi una sigaretta. Cominciammo a vederci così, e inizialmente ci sorridevamo e basta. Poi, man mano che ci abituammo a incontrarci ‘visivamente’, arrivammo anche a salutarci a voce alta e a chiederci come andasse da una parte all'altra della via – senza mai andare oltre.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img alt="15ae1ea95669700200ef99407f26dfb4.jpg" height="205" id="media-163902" name="media-163902" src="http://videoculture.myblog.it/media/02/00/15ae1ea95669700200ef99407f26dfb4.jpg" style="border-width: 0pt; float: right; margin: 0.2em 0pt 1em 1em;" width="275" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Una sera ci fu un tam-tam televisivo e radiofonico per un atto simbolico nazionale in ricordo della strage di Beslan. La notte tra il 4 e il 5 settembre 2004 - ovvero il giorno dopo questo fatto - echeggiò la proposta di lasciare una candela accesa fuori dalla propria finestra.&lt;br /&gt;Comprai un lumino al supermercato e lo misi sul davanzale interno della camera da letto  (temevo che all’esterno una folata di vento lo facesse cadere), lasciando le tapparelle aperte in modo tale che lo si potesse vedere da fuori.&lt;br /&gt;La mia dirimpettaia aveva acceso anche lei la sua candela e fui felice di vedere che una persona migrante, ormai residente qui, aveva partecipato come me alla commemorazione delle vittime di un accadimento entrato nell’immaginario collettivo di quel momento.&lt;br /&gt;Quella sera sentii nuovamente che questa casa era finalmente la mia ‘casa’ - il luogo al quale tornare.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4052446112609185980-9100449462724500001?l=videoculture.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://videoculture.blogspot.com/feeds/9100449462724500001/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://videoculture.blogspot.com/2007/12/etnografia-dello-spazio-urbano-i-la.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4052446112609185980/posts/default/9100449462724500001'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4052446112609185980/posts/default/9100449462724500001'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://videoculture.blogspot.com/2007/12/etnografia-dello-spazio-urbano-i-la.html' title='Etnografia dello spazio urbano I - La nuova casa, un’atmosfera famigliare, il palazzo di fronte'/><author><name>Cristina</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10320497324728266509</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hV709USIotE/TuoCHG8pS3I/AAAAAAAAAk4/hDtfiPnFwh8/s220/CristinaProfilo.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4052446112609185980.post-2957837464541068386</id><published>2007-10-25T19:46:00.002+02:00</published><updated>2010-10-28T19:48:21.478+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='video'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='antropologia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='media'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='digitale'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cultura'/><title type='text'>Information R/evolution</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify" style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Mike Wesch, antropologo culturale il cui interesse di ricerca è l'impatto dei nuovi media sull'iterazione umana, già autore del video &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLlGopyXT_g&amp;amp;feature=PlayList&amp;amp;p=B4CED27DFD894F14&amp;amp;index=0" target="_blank" title="collegamento a Web 2.0 The Machine is Us/ing Us"&gt;Web 2.0 The Machine is Us/ing Us&lt;/a&gt; visionato online da tre milioni di utenti, presenta ora &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4CV05HyAbM" target="_blank" title="collegamento a Information R/evolution"&gt;Information R/evolution&lt;/a&gt;, che ripercorre la rivoluzione nella comunicazione operata dal digitale.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object data="http://www.youtube.com/v/-4CV05HyAbM" height="255" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="306"&gt; &lt;param name="quality" value="high" /&gt;&lt;param name="menu" value="false" /&gt;&lt;param name="src" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/-4CV05HyAbM" /&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify" style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Per una panoramica sul lavoro e la ricerca di Wesch e del suo team, vedi il progetto &lt;a href="http://mediatedcultures.net/" target="_blank" title="collegamento a MediatedCultures"&gt;MediatedCultures&lt;/a&gt; nel quale sono presenti altri video prodotti su questo tema con approccio etnografico/antropologico ed è illustrata la proposta collaborativa dell'autore per la didattica e la ricerca.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4052446112609185980-2957837464541068386?l=videoculture.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://videoculture.blogspot.com/feeds/2957837464541068386/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://videoculture.blogspot.com/2007/10/information-revolution.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4052446112609185980/posts/default/2957837464541068386'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4052446112609185980/posts/default/2957837464541068386'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://videoculture.blogspot.com/2007/10/information-revolution.html' title='Information R/evolution'/><author><name>Cristina</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10320497324728266509</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hV709USIotE/TuoCHG8pS3I/AAAAAAAAAk4/hDtfiPnFwh8/s220/CristinaProfilo.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
