SUNDAY 8 JUNE
SALA 3
9:00 P.M.
Conference-Performance by and with Luca Scarlini
Event on occasion of Archivissima – Il Festival e la notte degli archivi
Tutti i futuri sbagliati presents a Torino that might have been but never was. More imaginary than real, its image changed by planners of every ilk, their plans have remained designs, projects, verbal recordings. Space is sometimes given to architects who imagined the city as a snake pit or an abstruse system for swimming, then there is a series of unexpected elements in an ineluctable destiny of radical change. Rocket-shaped cars whizz by, residential buildings and factories seem to have come out of a science fiction novel. An image of the future with room for an apocalypse of destruction of a city created by integrated capitalism.
Luca Scarlini works in contemporary theater and comparative literature. Essayist and storyteller, he teaches at the IED, Florence, the Scuola Holden, Torino, the Università Ca’ Foscari, Venice, and other institutions in Italy and abroad. He has appeared on Radio 3, written for Alias, Il giornale dell’arte, and L’indice, and collaborated on theater productions for the Biennale di Venezia. Recent titles to his credit include: Il Caravaggio rubato. Mito e cronaca di un furto (2018), L’ultima regina di Firenze. I Medici: atto finale (2018), L’uccello del paradiso. Mario Mieli e la lingua perduta del desiderio (2020), and Nuova guida sentimentale di Venezia (2024).
