๐ง๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ฝ๐ผ๐น๐ถ๐ -๐ง๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ป๐๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐๐ฎ๐น ๐๐ฐ๐ผ๐น๐ผ๐ด๐ถ๐ฒ๐ ๐๐ฒ๐๐๐ถ๐๐ฎ๐น
19 – 20 – 21 SEPTEMBER 2025
Castiglione dei Pepoli (BO)
Saturday, September 20, 6:30 p.m.
Parco della Rimembranza
Talk – ๐๐ฃ๐ช๐ต๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ญ๐ข ๐ค๐ณ๐ช๐ด๐ช. ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ด๐ต๐ถ๐ฎ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฐ ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ฆ๐ค๐ฐ๐ญ๐ฐ๐จ๐ช๐ฆ ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ญ๐ข ๐ป๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ข๐ญ๐ช
Camilla Bernava and Ilaria Santoemma
In the midst of an unprecedented convergence between technological acceleration and ecological collapse, what does it mean to inhabit the crisis? How can artistic practices and posthuman subjectivities become tools for traversingโand not simply escaping or resolvingโthe tensions between the Fourth Industrial Revolution and the Sixth Mass Extinction? Is it possible to imagine forms of co-evolution between technological systems and natural environments, overcoming the growth/destruction binary? What is the role of contemporary art today in the construction of new relational ecologies capable of connecting the human, non-human, artificial, and environmental? And, above all, how can the posthuman cease to be merely a theoretical category and become a practical, political, collective device?
Starting from these questions, the talk will feature a discussion between philosophers Ilaria Santoemma and Camilla Bernava, who will also explore the theme of possible alliances in an era of systemic crisis, reflecting on how art can become an active practice of resistance and transversal interconnection.
Camilla Bernava is currently a PhD student at the University of Naples L’Orientale in the Department of Human and Social Sciences. In 2024, she was a guest researcher at Linkรถping University (Sweden) with The Posthumanities Hub research group, of which she is a member. She completed a master’s degree in Gender Studies and Policies at Roma Tre University, and her research interests revolve around feminist epistemologies and philosophical ecology.
Ilaria Santoemma is a research fellow in Political Philosophy at the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna in Pisa. A feminist and scholar of contemporary political philosophy, feminist and post-humanist theory, she works at the intersection of ecology, radical epistemologies, and the philosophy of technology. Her research spans cyborg theory and post-humanist perspectives, imagining hybrid and responsible futures rooted in multiple terrestrial othernesses. Together with Angela Balzano, she coordinates and teaches the Science Module of the Master’s Degree in Gender Studies and Policies at RomaTre University and teaches in the GEMMA Master’s Degree at the University of Bologna. In 2022, she co-edited with Balzano and Elena Bosisio the eco-feminist anthology Conchiglie, pinguini, staminali. Verso futuri transpecie (DeriveApprodi), a collection of contributions that intertwine critical theory, ecology, and imagery to transcend species barriers.