A conference focussing on configurations of the body and gesture that arise in Pasolini's performative, visual, and poetic practices with respect to the artist image, the 'popular body', the Third World, narrative and choreographic movement, Pasolini’s life, and his conceptions of the political as they intersect history, politics, and myth. 

Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975) — poet, film director, screenwriter and theatre critic, playwright, essayist, journalist, graphic artist, and novelist — was one of the great Italian artistic and intellectual figures of the twentieth century. Since his mysterious murder in 1975, Pasolini has been reviled, then sanctified. Our goal is to historicize Pasolini. 

UCSC Arts Division, UCSC Arts Research Institute, Istituto Italiano di Cultura di San Francisco, Cowell College UCSC, UCSC Theater Arts Department, UCSC Literature Department, UCSC Film and Digital Media Department, UCSC History of Art and Visual Culture Department, UCSC History of Consciousness Department, UCSC Feminist Studies Department, UCSC History Department