Futurisms: Precursors, Protagonists, Legacies
1-3 December 2009
University of Utrecht
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DAY 1
Jeffrey Schnapp: The Statistical Sublime: Futurism and Numbers (Keynote)
Stefano Cracolici: Occult Futurism and the Horror Avant-garde
Stephen Marth: When ‘il nulla’ was ‘tutto’: Palazzeschi’s “Man of Smoke” and the Ethereal Aesthetics of Futurism
Nancy Perloff: Russian Zaum: The Futurist Incarnation of Sound Poetry
Matteo Brera: ‘Tra i fili del telegrafo / col fischio del vapore’. Anticipazioni linguistiche ‘futuriste’ nella poesia italiana da Boito a D’Annunzio
Federico Luisetti: Marinetti’s Radiophonic Intervals
Francesca Bravi: ‘Immensi scenari di garza’: Liriche radiofoniche by Fortunato Depero
Teresa Spignoli: La ‘terra di nessuno’ tra immagine e parola: dalle tavole parolibere alla poesia verbo-visiva
*performance by Ron Coulter: The Percussionist’s Manifesto
DAY 2
Davide Podavini: Marinetti critico del proto-futurismo in ‘Poeti futuristi’
Dirk Vandenberghe: La funzione dell’autocommento nella parabola di “BÏF§ZF+18” di Soffici
Stefano Magni: Luciano Folgore: ridere di sé stessi e del futurismo. Fine o rinnovamento dell’avanguardia?
Erin Larkin: Benedetta: La ‘volontà eroica’ and the Futurist Woman
Ilona Fried: Margit Gáspár, ‘passione’ per Marinetti
Silvia Contarini: Comment se transformer en femme du futur : ‘Une femme avec trois âmes’ – ‘Un ventre de femme’
Laura Greco: Federico De Maria: le radici palermitane del futurismo
Patricia Gaborik: Mapping Futurism: How the First Avant-Garde Network Worked
Eleonora Conti: Marinetti in Francia fra Simbolismo e Futurismo. ‘Vers et Prose’ e ‘Les Guêpes’
John Welle: Reading ‘Divismo’: Bruno Corra’s Forgotten Film Novel “Io ti amo”, Commercial Literature, and Celebrity Culture
Pierpaolo Antonello: The Beauty and the Beast: Art and Technology in Enrico Prampolini and Leonardo Sinisgalli’s Exhibition ‘Le arti plastiche e la civiltà meccanica’
Bharain Mac An Bhreithiún: Neon Futurista: The Poetry of the Electric Advertising Sign in Urban Space (tbc)
Günter Berghaus: Past, Present and Future of Futurism (keynote)
*Serata Marinetti (futurist performance by Federico Bonelli & Co.)
DAY 3
Kyle Hall: Poetics, Politics and ‘La fine del mondo’: Volt’s Futurofascist Apocalypse
Sascha Bru: Futurism and the Politics of the Ugly, Then and Now
Monica Biasiolo: Ritagli di guerra di Paolo Buzzi: una ‘Conflagrazione’ di parole
Walter Adamson: The End of an Avant-garde? Marinetti and Futurism in World War I and its Aftermath
Tobias Kämpf: Accommodating Futurists in France: Marinetti’s Group Seen by Gustave Kahn
Beatrice Sica: ‘In the name, always, of the great, unique, true Idea-Force’: Paolo Buzzi, Italian Futurism, and French Surrealism
Florian Mussgnug: Covert Gestures: Marinetti’s ‘Manifesto del Futurismo’ in the 1960s
Marjorie Perloff: The Audacity of Hope: Futurist Aura and National Difference in the First Manifestos (Keynote)
