Pasolini Roma
Thinking Differently
Pasolini and the Critique of Mainstream Culture
Debate
More than anything else, Pasolini is a heterodox thinker. His concern is the process of material and spiritual homogenisation in post-war Europe as fruit of the expansion of consumer capitalism and the mass media. In this context, he reflects on the eradication of differences in lifestyles and cultural substrata while simultaneously criticising the tendency to uniformity in the life plans of a new middle class which is limited to the same ever more dehumanising horizons. Faced with this new social reality, Pasolini denounces the violence and totalitarianism inherent to capitalism, shuns standard, socially acceptable thinking and seeks to lay bare the contradictions and hazards of this new way of life.
The CCCB presents these debates as part of the “Pasolini-Roma” exhibition with a view to considering our world through Pasolini’s works and raising the question of how a transgressive critique of mainstream culture might be possible today.
Monday 17 June at 7 p.m.
“Can we still be subversive?”
Alfredo Jaar, visual artist, architect and film maker
Miguel Morey, Emeritus professor of Philosophy, University of Barcelona
Presented by: Gisela Llobet, lecturer in Philosophy at the Autonomous University of Barcelona
The documentary The Ashes of Pasolini by Alfredo Jaar (2009, 38 min.) will be screened.
Tuesday 25 June at 7 p.m.
“Life on the fringes: against cultural homogeneity”
Jordi Balló, lecturer in Audiovisual Communication at the Pompeu Fabra University and curator of the “Pasolini-Roma” exhibition
Javier Pérez Andújar, writer
Julià de Jòdar, writer
Presented by: Ingrid Guardiola, lecturer at the Pompeu Fabra University and the University of Girona, and cultural manager
Monday 1 July at 7 p.m.
“Poetry to the marrow”
Pasolini: A discussion and poetry recital.
Josep Maria Lluró, essayist and secondary school History teacher
Enric Casasses, poet, playwright and translator
Arnau Pons, poet, translator and essayist
Carles Rebassa, poet
Presented by: Martí Sales, writer and translator
Tuesday 9 July at 7 p.m.
“Pasolini, friend of prophetic thinking"
Dacia Maraini, writer, playwright and poet
Presented by: Xavier Albertí, theatre director and composer
Presenters: Gisela Llobet, Ingrid Guardiola, Martí Sales, Xavier Albertí
Participants: Alfredo Jaar, Miguel Morey, Jordi Balló, Javier Pérez Andújar, Julià de Jòdar, Josep Maria Lluró, Enric Casasses, Arnau Pons, Carles Rebassa, Dacia Maraini
This activity is part of Pasolini Roma
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