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Bologna, Culture, Portraits
Gender Bender: can art talk about gender identity?
Posted on by Portraits from ItalyDaniele Del Pozzo is artistic director of Bologna’s annual Gender Bender festival. It aims to explore perceptions of gender through art, theatre, debate, music and culture. “I moved to Bologna when I was 18 to study art, music and theatre. I decided that this was my new city. “In 1982 the city of Bologna gave the local gay… Read more »
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Culture, Portraits
Goodnight, Peeping Tom: art as the body politic
Posted on by Portraits from ItalyEvery sexual desire is a romantic request: this is the idea behind Goodnight, Peeping Tom, Chiara Bersani’s production for Bologna’s Gender Bender festival. It sees the body as a ‘political entity’ which is formed and transformed by society and the gaze of others – a central theme in the work of Bersani, who suffers from osteogenesis imperfecta or ‘brittle bone disease’. … Read more »
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