Honored to be part of the Conference "Insular weathers, global atmosphere: Exploring the aerial histories of islands" with my project 🔥Climate Changes Sex 💦. at the Historical and Popular Art Museum of Aegina Islands, Nov. 1-3, 2024

Special Thanks to the Organization Committee:

Robert-Jan Wille, History and Philosophy of Science, Freudenthal Institute, Utrecht University

Vladimir Jankovic, Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine (CHSTM), The University of Manchester

George N. Vlahakis, Laboratory of Science, Technology and Medicine  Communication, Hellenic Open University

https://meteohistory.org/2024/insular-weathers-global-atmospheres-exploring-the-aerial-histories-of-islands/#more-1399

Queering the Marriage of the Sea @ “Materiality at the Intersection of Ecology and Religious Studies” COnference

Honored to present my "Queering the Marriage of the Sea" at the conference “Materiality at the Intersection of Ecology and Religious Studies”,

organized by @fondazionegcini (the Centre for Comparative Studies of Civilisations and Spiritualities), Harvard Divinity School (Center for the Study of World Religions), @harvarddivinity, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (THE NEW INSTITUTE Centre for Environmental Humanities – NICHE, @nichevenicecf, the Center for the Study of Lived Religion, and the Department of Asian and North African Studies), University College Dublin (Irish Research Council Government of Ireland) @universitycollegedublin

looking forward to meeting all these extraordinary academic researchers, among these Greta Gaard, that I consider a giant for who, like me, has crossed feminism, sexuality and ecology

May 21-23

https://www.cini.it/eventi/convegno-materiality-at-the-intersection-of-ecology-and-religious-studies

Antennae issue #63 | Queering Nature | curated by Giovanni Aloi

Antennae issue #63 | Queering Nature | curated by Giovanni Aloi

Highly concerned with the relentless erasure of queer behaviours operated by science and natural history, Queer Ecologies focuses on the relentless deconstruction of the conception of “nature” as formulated in Western culture; it challenges the dualistic ways of thinking that separates nature from culture, and human from other earthlings. Ultimately, it critiques heteronormative constructs of nature and sexuality as not only socially divisive but also ecologically damaging.

With original contributions by

Elena Antoniolli, Gianlorenzo Chiaraluce, Remina Greenfield, Justyna Górowska, Thomas Hughes, Ewelina Jarosz, Ross McBee, Emma Merkling, Benedetta Panisson, Barney Pau, Agnes Questionmark, Ëpha Roe, D Rosenm, Catriona Sandilands, Regan Shrumm, Annie Sprinkle, Beth Stephens

Download free at www.antennae.org.uk

Front cover: Agnes Questionmark, TRANSGENESIS. Performance and installation, detail, photo: Stephen White & Co 2021 © Agnes Questionmark

Feminist Porn @laguarimba @LaRepubblica

https://www.repubblica.it/spettacoli/cinema/2023/07/31/news/la_rassegna_in_spiaggia_di_notte_dei_corti_porno_femministi_benedetta_panisson_esperienza_inclusiva_che_riguarda_tutt-409572057/?ref=RHLF-BG-I409573475-P19-S1-T1

Live Performance + Talk @Volcanic Attitute - Napoli-Vulcano | June 26 - July 2 | 2023

Volcanic Attitude 2023 ➿ dal 26 giugno al 2 luglio
Napoli > Isole Eolie ➿ Vesuvio > Vulcano

Con/with Riccardo Arena, Francesco Careri (Romatre) , Vitaliano Ciulli (Unifi), Luigi Cimmino (Unina), Sandro De Vita (INGV), Flora Giudicepietro (INGV), Gianmaria Lenti, Pietro Lo Cascio, Giovanni Macedonio(INGV), Bernando López Marín,
@ignaziomortellaro , @matteonasini , @benedettapanisson , Alberto Pepe, Monia Procesi (INGV) , @filippo_romanophoto , Nino Saltalamacchia (Centro Studi Eoliano), The 181 (Brandon Boan, Abby Donovan, Tom Hughes, Jason Rhodes) e @sophie_usunier



Volcanic Attitude 2023 è organizzato da/is organized by
@cose_cosmiche , @centroitard e @thatscontemporary

con il supporto di / with the support of Fondazione Arthur Cravan ,
@fondazionenuovimecenati

con il patrocinio di/with the patronage of:
@unifirenze

Main Partner:
@carontetourist

Partner:
@lessablesnoirs.it @therasiaresort

Partner tecnici e evento:
@carascohotel , Liberty Lines, @maridelsud.resort , @tenutacastellaro

Parter culturali: Centro Culturale Lizieres, Centro Studi Eoliano, Ex-Voto,
@arsenale.napoli, La Fucina di Efesto, Palazzo Fondi, @nesos_trekkingnatura, @nonriservato, @teatrodeinaviganti The Possible Island @superotium @vulcaniamo

Food& Beverage:
@birra_follina , @finespiritsitalia

Media Partner
@phroom_platform





Visual identity
@tipiblu

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Sexual Display from the Abyss: Octopuses between Heteronormativity and Exorbitance published on Matter Journal, Vol. 7 (2023)

Sexual Display from the Abyss: Octopuses between Heteronormativity and Exorbitance published on Matter Journal, Vol. 7 (2023): Situating research on art, technological practices and literature | Read it here: https://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/matter/article/view/42245/39307

Abstract

This paper focuses on a footage recorded in 1993 by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution at 2500m depth. It is the first visual experience of sexual activity between abyssal octopuses in their oceanic habitat: they are two males of two different species. This paper aims to analyze the gendered, affective, and moral structures that have produced texts and voice-offs in relation to this visuality, letting emerge how a transcultural, feminist, queer, and artistic gaze can lead to a reparative stance, beyond a replicated heteronormativity perceived as threatening, towards a more relaxed intimacy with animal sexualities, including a hybrid sense of eroticism that accompanies the human attraction for visual sexualities.

still from Woods Holes Oceanographic Institute, video footage, 1993

In the Official Jury of La Guarimba International FIlm Festival | August 2022

Double honor: being on the jury of La Guarimba International Film Festival and won it ten years ago (Doc category). We wait for you in Amantea, in that part of Calabrian coast where Giulio Vita, and all the Festival team, fight hard, very hard, for culture sharing.

Doppio onore: essere in giuria de La Guarimba International FIlm Festival e averlo vinto dieci anni fa (sezione doc). Vi aspettiamo ad Amantea , in quella costa calabra dove Giulio Vita e il team del Festival lottano duro, ma veramente duro, per la condivisione della cultura.


https://www.laguarimba.com/it/