Eros absconditus, proposed for the conference by Italian artist Irene Pittatore, is an art project concerning contemporary erotic imaginaries. It is organised in three chapters; the first one, Somnium sapientis, focuses on the dreams of scholars in social sciences working on issues of sexuality and geography.
The project is meant to stimulate a free dialogue, arguably neutral in terms of moral judgments, and to offer poetic and performative suggestions originated from and in strict contact with the collected dreams. The objective is to explore the beauties, the obsessions, and the generativities of the dreams through an open dialogue with experts of different disciplines, as well as through the potential interference of the dreams on the artist’s works and dreams.
The project is developed in cooperation with the psychiatrist and Jungian psychoanalyst Eugenio Torre and the geographer Alberto Vanolo.
With this aim in mind, it is asked to the scholars taking part in the Conference to share an erotic dream with the artist. The dream may be described through words, drawings, audio files or whatever kind of representation. A first outcome of the project will be presented in Rome, during the III European Geographies of Sexualities Conference (16-18 September 2015), in a form that will be chosen by the artist. In fact, she will be probably highly influenced by her exposition to the dreams, and maybe she will generate other dreams, too, developing multiple echoes and feedbacks. In such a scenario, it is hard to define a priori the shape of the artistic process and the kind of output that will be developed, for example a video, an artist book or a performance. The outcomes of the project will be also presented in the section Artist’s Playground, edited by Irene Pittatore, on the pages of the new edition of the journal Playboy Italia.
Please click here to download the first diary resulting from the project.
The project is meant to stimulate a free dialogue, arguably neutral in terms of moral judgments, and to offer poetic and performative suggestions originated from and in strict contact with the collected dreams. The objective is to explore the beauties, the obsessions, and the generativities of the dreams through an open dialogue with experts of different disciplines, as well as through the potential interference of the dreams on the artist’s works and dreams.
The project is developed in cooperation with the psychiatrist and Jungian psychoanalyst Eugenio Torre and the geographer Alberto Vanolo.
With this aim in mind, it is asked to the scholars taking part in the Conference to share an erotic dream with the artist. The dream may be described through words, drawings, audio files or whatever kind of representation. A first outcome of the project will be presented in Rome, during the III European Geographies of Sexualities Conference (16-18 September 2015), in a form that will be chosen by the artist. In fact, she will be probably highly influenced by her exposition to the dreams, and maybe she will generate other dreams, too, developing multiple echoes and feedbacks. In such a scenario, it is hard to define a priori the shape of the artistic process and the kind of output that will be developed, for example a video, an artist book or a performance. The outcomes of the project will be also presented in the section Artist’s Playground, edited by Irene Pittatore, on the pages of the new edition of the journal Playboy Italia.
Please click here to download the first diary resulting from the project.