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“A” is a pretty shade of pink

Soft words, cold colours and bitter winds. These are all examples of synesthesia, from the Greek words syn (union) and aisthesis (sensation), and they describe the links between things from different sensory areas. The decadent poets of the nineteenth century thought of synesthesia as nothing less than an artistic manifesto. In the twentieth centu...

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Aug 31, 2010 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: hubbard, memory, scanu, science, synesthesia | Leave A Comment »

The mobility of the emotions

Magazine -> #23 Emotion and Surprise

In front of a cup of coffee. Hey Jude, don’t make it bad take a sad song and make it better Remember to let her into your heart Then you can start to make it better … The Beatles, 1968. Certain places excite me more than others. When I visit them, I am reconnected with a very personal, familiar, dreamlike memory, and I feel a great t...

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Dec 03, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: 1968, alive, bruno munari, coincidence, cold, colours, culture, dreamlike, emotion, excitement, experience, face, familiar, hey jude, idea | Leave A Comment »

Blinding the ears

Magazine -> #27 The Culture of Listening

In front of a cup of coffee with Andrea Bellini The theme of this edition of illywords is “La cultura dell’ascolto” (or “the Culture of Listening”). Did this lead to the idea of choosing “Accecare l’ascolto” (“Blocking the ears”) as the title for the section on theatre and the role of theatrical performance in the modern art...

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Dec 03, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: actor, andrea bellini, artissima, biennal, bourgeois, carmelo bene, creativity, dadaist, ears, entertainer, exhibitions, framework, futuristic, involved, john cage | Leave A Comment »

Enlightened by error

Magazine -> #26 Re-Evaluate The Error

The great Russian woman poet, Marina Cvetaeva, once wrote: “I’ve trained my soul to linger outside the window… I simply wouldn’t allow it into the house, the same way as one wouldn’t let in a stray dog or an exotic bird”. That’s one, and not so infrequent, a way of keeping at bay those silly and seemingly unaccountable tricks played ...

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Dec 03, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: astrolabio, being unique, book, creation, desires, disorder, errors, ever tried, fail again, fail better, faulty behaviour, gabriella ripa di meana, idealisation, individuality, inevitable | Leave A Comment »

What the hell is it?

Magazine -> #21 Senti-mentally

“What the hell is it?”. American historian and writer Paul Collins’ literary travels, published in Italy by Adelphi, usually start from this question, which struck him when he came across some oddity found in an old book. A cultured, meticulous curiosity rooted in the need to understand what has been buried in and by history. To mark a passio...

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Nov 22, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: aberration, abilities, autism, autistic people, beta testing, book, characters, company, curiosity, exploration, family, feelings, genetic and societal forces, history, humanity | Leave A Comment »

The city has a soul

Magazine -> #19 Aequòpolis

A city is like a life: it needs a soul. A city’s soul is its inhabitants, its recollections, its memory... and also a certain element of mystery. A city without mystery is a dry city...loveless, emotionless. I think of a city as a face, like someone you want to see again, someone you want to love. Someone we might not get on with all the tim...

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Nov 22, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: city, civilisations, community, crossroads for encounters, dry city, emotionless, italy, loveless, memory, mistery, peace, people, soul, tahar ben jalloun, values | Leave A Comment »

Taking time to look

Magazine -> #24 Self Portrait

What do you think of self-portraiture in the self-timer mode in photography? Well, the first thing that comes to mind when I hear a picture’s been shot that way is “vanity”; anyone having recourse to such a technique is out to show himself at his appealing best. Mind you, that’s understandable because we all implicitly reject the image we ...

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Sep 18, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: black, camera, collections, details, future, idea, jodice, lens, light equipment, mediterranean, memory, method, ourselves, past, pessoa | Leave A Comment »