BOLOGNA IN LETTERE – MULTIDISCIPLINARY FESTIVAL OF CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE
Born in 2013, following the previous experience of Letteratura necessaria, from the initiative of Enzo Campi and a group of poets and non-poets of various ages and even more various poetics. It is a festival conceived with the intention of creating a shared space for dialogue “in which classicism and experimentation can be amalgamated through the use of multidisciplinary languages”.

BOLOGNA IN LETTERE – A YEAR-LONG FESTIVAL
This is the slogan that characterises Bologna in Lettere, because the events cover the time span of a year and culminate in six days in May when poetry, writing, video art, photography, theatre and performance join forces for a common purpose: the dissemination of the word.

BOLOGNA IN LETTERE 10th – BĂBÉL STATI DI ALTERAZIONE
June 2021 – October 2022:
We celebrate the festival’s tenth anniversary with a special edition that will run from June 2021 to October 2022.

Maria Korporal is curator of the festival’s video art section, ARTE-FATTI CONTEMPORANEI, and has presented a wide selection of video(-poetic) works by artists from all over the world. For the final stage of the festival in May 2022, art director Enzo Campi invited her to submit a video of her own. The artist chose the video poem (amarizza), made in 2011 in collaboration with the Palermitan poet Daìta Martinez. It is a special project because, in addition to the Italian version (amarezza), Maria Korporal made a second video in which she elaborated the Palermitan version of the poem: (amarizza). It is this one that will be presented at the festival, to honour the theme “Băbél states of alteration”.
The video will be online from 11 until 28 May 2022 on the festival’s YouTube channel.

Link to the complete programme 6/28 May 2022

The video (amarizza) on the festival’s channel

Three stills from the video: