PAV Parco Arte Vivente
INTERNATURALITA’

Description

The volume collects the proceedings and essays of the international conference held at the Casa del Teatro Ragazzi in Turin on 8 May 2013. The conference analyzed a series of views (aesthetic, ethical, anthropological and artistic) around nature. Divided into three sessions, with contributions from specialists and researchers from different disciplinary fields, the conference offered food for thought on some of the most current and extremely urgent issues regarding the environment, a concept that has always been ambiguous and a source of lexical misunderstandings. In “Aesthetics and ethics of nature” we questioned the effective existence of an aesthetics and an ethics of nature and the landscape at a time when the environmental balance appears increasingly compromised. In the second section “Anthropology and human culture” the interventions of specialists in the so-called field of ‘human culture’ and ‘zoo-anthropology’ alternated, questioning whether nature really can become a subject with which to relate like other living forms, and if so in what ways. The third and final section “Art and narratives of nature” explored some forms of ‘storytelling’ of nature suggested by contemporary art. These are ways capable of bringing us closer to urgent environmental problems (from the loss of biodiversity to global warming), prompting us to imagine what it means to experience them firsthand.

Texts by: Bergit Arends, Alice Benessia, Maurizio Balistreri, Andrea Caretto and Raffaella Spagna, Claudio Cravero, Piergiorgio Donatelli, Salvatore D’Onofrio, Piero Gilardi, Roberto Marchesini, Maurizio Mori, Fabien Sanders, Gilberte Tsai, Alessio Vaccari.