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    Ambra Viviani: "With Love: Movimento e Parola per una Comunicazione Amorosa" (2023)

    With Love: Movimento e Parola per una Comunicazione Amorosa
    With Love: Movimento e Parola per una Comunicazione Amorosa
    • Passioned song (Revised)

    โ€œWith Love: Movimento e Parola per una Comunicazione Amorosaโ€, Italian for Movement and Words for a Loving Communication, is a workshop and the initial experiment of my doctoral project titled โ€œWith Love: De/Re-Construction of the Loving Discourseโ€. The subtitle of my research draws inspiration from Roland Barthesโ€™ โ€œFragments d'un Discours Amoureuxโ€ commonly known as Loverโ€™s Discourse. Opting for the Italian translation, Discorso Amoroso, and re-translating it back to English, moving from Loverโ€™s to Loving Discourse, shifts the focus from the individual to attributing the quality of love to the discourse itself. It is a work about love done with love. Research, in my specific case at least, is like writing to the beloved, as Barthes would say โ€“ messy. However, this messiness does not involve disregarding the artistic, philosophical, and scientific fields I did and will encounter and study during the process, instead, it denotes a reasoned chaotic methodology, as Jack Halberstam suggests: ยซ[u]nder certain circumstances failing, losing, forgetting, unmaking, undoing, unbecoming, not knowing may, in fact, offer more creative, more cooperative, more surprising ways of being in the worldยป.

    Passioned song (Revised)

    I planted a small tree
    Nurturing it with pain and sweat.
    A blast of wind thenโ€ฆ
    and all the fruits are changing color.
    โ€ฆ โ€ฆ and they all
    They were sweet and have turned bitter
    And then say โ€œListen young lover,
    hold dear the bitter things"
    And as bitter as you are
    I love you
    I love you and you make me ???
    _____________________

    And I think about you - Lauri?

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