After bodies
8 novembre 2022
Badoer, aula D
ore 5 p.m.
a cura di Angela Vettese e Camilla Salvaneschi
per l’area dottorale Arti Visive, Performative e Moda
codice MS Teams:
1j3763o
ciclo di incontri “The Exposed Body”
After Bodies Lecture
by Clarissa Ricci (University of Bologna)
In Aperto
93 spread bodies of limbs, autoerotic sculptures, pubis, lickable
and eatable statues took the centre stage to the
point the exhibition was nicknamed one of “sex and death”. How to read
this emergence? What is the legacy of such practices?
Clarissa Ricci is
Adjunct professor at the University of Bologna. Her research focuses on the
history and networks of exhibitions, biennials, fairs, and on the
contemporary. She was a recipient of the Getty/ACLS Postdoctoral
Fellowship in the History of Art (2019–2020) and previously she was
entrusted by Iuav University in Venice
(2017–2019) with researching the foundation of Arte
Fiera. Moreover she was a visiting scholar at Columbia University in New York
City and was awarded a Library Research Grant by the Getty Research Institute
in Los Angeles. She is author of Aperto
1980-1993. La mostra dei giovani artisti alla Biennale di Venezia (Postmedia Books, Milano, 2022) and has
written numerous essays. She
was editor of many volumes as the one on the Venice Biennale
entitled Starting from Venice. Studies on the Biennale (2011), latest
being Double Trouble. Exhibitions facing fairs in Contemporary
Art (2020). Moreover she is co-editor of the academic journals OBOE
journal. On Biennials and Other Exhibitions and editor at Venezia
Arti.