Grammatiche d'amore – Love Grammars
The philosopher Gianni Vattimo, the new deputy Vladimir Luxuria, the journalists and writers Concita De Gregorio, Monica Maggi and Delia Vaccarello and the sociologist Maria Grazia Giannichedda will open the project “Queer too Queer” on Saturday, May 20 th , at the Gallery A+A, with video installations and screenings of short films dedicated to the “Love Grammars” . “Queer too queer” [literally “different, too different”] is a project promoted by the Cultures of the Differences Dept. of the Municipality of Venice and by the cultural association “Patagonia Art”.
It's a cultural urban lab which is going to produce a series of events all year long, where videos, installations, exhibtions and performances all consacrated to gay, lesbian and transgender sensibility will be presented. The protagonists of this workshop will be the young artists of the city and students from the Fine Arts Academy and from Venice University, who will work as a real creative, mobile and open crew.
“Queer too queer” wants to offer a public poetic consideration on the many declensions of love. Love meant as an embedding of bodies and symbols, as bumpy ground and a weave of open questions.
For this reason, the first event of the workshop is all dedicated to the “Grammars of Love”, which spell individual and social identities, prejudices and freedom. All this will be observed, manipulated and deconstructed through the gay, lesbian and transgender creativity.
Saturday, May 20th, at the Galleria A+A from 6h00 pm, 37 short films and videos will be presented. They come from precinema and videoart, experimentations and late 19 th - first 20 th century rare films, lent and selected by the Archivio Carlo Montanaro. Also some videos by great contemporary artists like Pipilotti Rist and Chris Cunningham will be screened. It will be a pictures story through the many declensions of love. In the Gallery A+A there will also be a design artwork by Laurence Humier, internationally renown Belgian artist.
In addition to the Deputy Mayor for the Cultures of Differences of the Municipality of Venice, Franca Bimbi, there will also be important observers and intellectuals, who will open the Lab:
Concita De Gregorio
Journalist, she has been working since 1990 at the daily newspaper La Repubblica. In 2002 she published Non lavate questo sangue, a diary of the G8 days in Genoa and a story for the literary magazine edited by Adelphi.
Maria Grazia Giannichedda
Professor of sociology at the University of Sassari. She collaborated with the European Commission and with many bodies of the United Nations. She is president of the Basaglia Foundation. Furthermore, she cured the book L'utopia della realtà (2005).
Vladimir Luxuria
Deputy. She worked as actress for cinema ( Mater Natura by Massimo Andrei), theatre ( Si sdrai per favore by Roberto Piana), tv and radio. She also worked as art-director of the club Mario Mieli and of Word Gay Pride 2000. Inventor of “Muccassassina”, activist of the Glbt movement, she is a transgender icon.
Monica Maggi
Journalist and writer, she collaborates with many magazines and holds a workshop of journalism at the University of Rome. She also wrote the books: La mia pelle è un cifrario and Ti bacio in bocca (2001)
Delia Vaccarello
Journalist and writer, she is the curator of the GLBT magazine Uno, due, tre...liberi tutti on the newspaper l'Unità. She wrote Gli svergognati (2001) and L'amore secondo noi. Ragazzi e ragazze alla ricerca dell'identità (2005). She cured the three editions of the collection of stories Principesse Azzurre .
Gianni Vattimo
Professor of Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Turin. Columnist of many Italian and foreign newspapers. He has been deputy of the European Parliament. Among his most recent works: Tecnica ed esistenza. Una mappa filosofica del Novecento (2002), Il futuro della religione. Carità, ironia, solidarietà, (2005).
The Gallery A+A is in S.Marco, Calle Malipiero 307, Venice.
