What does it mean to conceive of the body not as a given entity, but as a process in constant transformation? This event explores the relationship between performativity and embodiment, challenging the traditional mind-body dualism. Taking as its starting point the recently published volume Performing Embodiment. Choreographies of Affect, Language, and Social Norms (ICI Berlin Press, 2026), spanning philosophy, literature, dance, language, gender, and disability studies, the discussion will explore the choreographies through which bodies produce knowledge, inhabit the world, and transform social norms.
Federica Buongiorno is Assistant Professor of Theoretical Philosophy and Philosophy of Technology at the University of Florence, and a translator. Her research focuses on phenomenology, philosophy of technology, critical AI studies, and psychoanalysis. In 2025, she published Iperindividualità. L’individuazione nel presente tecnologico, which won the 2025 Nicola Russo Prize for Philosophical Studies.
Chiara Cappelletto is Full Professor of Aesthetics at the University of Milan. Her research focuses on phenomenological and contemporary aesthetics, neuroaesthetics, experimental aesthetics, visual and performance studies, and rhetoric. She works at the intersection of philosophy and the arts and is the author of Embodying Art: How We See, Think, Feel, and Create (2022).
Alberica Bazzoni is a Lecturer in Cultural Studies at CIEE Florence and a Visiting Fellow at ILCS, University of London. Her research areas include comparative literature, queer-feminist studies and decolonial studies. Among her publications: Il presente vivo. Temporalità del divenire e del trauma in Lispector, Ortese e Philip (Mimesis 2025) and Writing for Freedom. Body, Identity and Power in Goliarda Sapienza’s Narrative (2018).
In English
With
Alberica Bazzoni
Federica Buongiorno
Chiara Cappelletto
Organized by
ICI Berlin and ICI Berlin Press
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