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Bologna in Lettere 2024 – International Poetry & Video-Art

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• from May 10, 2024: Bologna in Lettere 2024 – International Poetry & Video-Art, Bologna in Lettere.

Maria Korporal & Astrid Astra Indricane present their Third Eye Factory video Tombeau

Bologna in Lettere XII edizione

Bologna in Lettere 2024 – International Poetry & Video-Art
International video art and video poetry exhibition curated by Maria Korporal, with Solomon Nagler (Canada), Tess Martin (The Netherlands), Úrsula San Cristóbal (Spain), Kate Solar (Canada), Salome Akhaladze (Georgia), Rojin Shafiei (Iran/Canada), Maria Korporal & Astrid Astra Indricane (Germany), Sophie Guyot (Switzerland)
Art director: Enzo Campi
Online event with premiere on the YouTube channel of Bologna in Lettere

Blog article with all videos: https://tragicoalverman.wordpress.com/2024/05/12/bologna-in-lettere-2024-international-poetry-video-art/

10-11 May 2024 and ongoing

The event on the festival’s website

Arte-fatti contemporanei 2023

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• March 30-31, 2023: Arte-fatti contemporanei / BILtrepuntozero, Bologna in Lettere.


Maria Korporal presents her video Specchiatura

Bologna in Lettere XI edizione

Arte-fatti contemporanei
International video art and video poetry exhibition curated by Maria Korporal
Online event with premiere on the YouTube channel of Bologna in Lettere

Thursday 30 March
20.00 h “The Left Hand of Darkness” – Sara Bonventura (Italy)
20.30 h “danse01” – Mark Klink (USA)
21.00 h “The Background World” – Melissa Faivre (France-Germany)
21.30 h “Where are you going Arthur Rimbaud?” – Slem (France)

Friday 31st March
20.00 h “Essere U” – Emanuele Marsigliotti (Italy)
20.30 h “Il canto del pensiero errante” – Silvia De Gennaro (Italy)
21.00 h “ABODE” – David King (Curator) – film di Kunal Biswas (India), Anna Grigorian (Armenia-Canada),
Camelia Mirescu (Italy), Hiroshi Atobe (Japan), Debjit Bagchi (India), Rrose Present (Spain), David King (Australia), Serge Maslov-Szymarski (Stateless)
21.30 h “Specchiatura” – Maria Korporal (Germany)

Updates on the festival’s NEWS page

Bologna in Lettere 10th

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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:

Bologna in Lettere online

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Bologna in Lettere 2020 will be a special edition because, for the ongoing health emergency, it will only take place online.
It will be organized as if it were a real festival with a daily program:
from 7 to 25 May, following a pre-established schedule and presented on the web page Bologna in Lettere 2020, on simultaneous video premieres on the channel YouTube, on the social networks Instagram, Facebook.

Maria Korporal participates with a special edition of her video Breaking Borders. The premiere will take place on 11 May at 22:00 and the video will remain visible also afterwards.

Click here to view “Breaking Borders” on YouTube

See the dedicated page on the festival’s website

Furthermore there will be the presentation of the video “Chant for a Pandemic”, curated by Dee Hood: a choral project born from the collaboration between artists from all over the world: Dee Hood (USA), Finn Harvor (South Corea), Maria Korporal (Germany), Sandra Bougerch (UK), Tushar Waghela (India), Muriel Paraboni (Italy), Lisi Prada (Spain), Eija Temiseva (Finland), Ian Gibbins (Australia), Jutta Pryor (Australia), Sarah Bliss (USA), Darko Duilo (Croatia), Gwendolyn Audrey Foster (USA), Erick Tapia (Mexico), Lori Ersolmaz (USA), Avant Kinema: Sarahjane Swan, Roger Sirmian (Scotland), Lino Mocerino (Italy), Francesca Giuliani (Italy), Luis Carlos Rodriguez (Spain), Willow Morgan (USA).

Click here to sign up for the premiere and view “Chant for a Pandemic” on YouTube

The Pelican of the Wilderness

The Pelican of the Wilderness

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title: The Pelican of the Wilderness
technique: Experimental video and animation
length: 7’06”
year: 2015
poem: “Scheletri nottambuli” by Mario Maroccolo, from the book “Annelies Marie Frank” by Nina Maroccolo, published by Edizioni Empirìa, Rome, Italy
English translation of the poem: “Nocturnal skeletons” by Emiliano Pietrini
voice: Nina Maroccolo
music: “Memoria II” (excerpt) and “Elegy” by Michael J. Stewart
sound mix: Emiliano Pietrini
video concept, camera, animation, effects and montage: Maria Korporal

A crucial scene in the video is a pelican biting itself in the chest to save his children with his own blood. It is an image of great allegorical significance in antiquity and in Christianity, usually representing the paternal or maternal love, the act of sacrifice oneself to save one’s own children. In alchemical iconography the image of the pelican is a metaphor for the unselfish aspiration to the ascent towards purification, for the absolute generosity.
The title “The pelican of the wilderness” refers to a quote from the Bible: “I am like a pelican of the wilderness …” (Psalm 101.7). The quote is also present in the book “Annelies Marie Frank,” from which was taken the poem “Nocturnal skeletons” by Mario Maroccolo, father of the author Nina Maroccolo, who reads the text in the final scene of the video.
The video has been presented at the festival “Bologna in lettere“, May 16, 2015, in an extended form with a performance by Nina Maroccolo and Maria Korporal.

 

Slideshow of the performance:

 

Still images from the video: