An inspiring evening with Miklavž Komelj about Pasolini and his work.
PROGRAMME:
11 December at 18:00, Studio Pekinpah – Trg prekomorskih brigad 1, 4th floor.
"I smell the valleys without grass. I would never be a priest, a blackmailer who screams like revelationsthe concepts, rationally common to his circle; for this reason I do not see the stones and rocks as ideograms. I see real stones..."
-That is what Pier Paolo Pasolini said at the time he was shooting the film Medea.
Slovenia is thus a privileged geographical point from which one can speak about Pasolini and stones. And when we talk about Pasolini and stones, we are talking about his relationship with reality, which is nowhere described more succinctly than in the description of a certain stone in the novel Petrolio (Oil) – it is a stone into which a saint, who had been deceived by the God-Devil and had fallen from the third heaven, was transformed: "The infinite variety of its mild colors corresponds to the infinite variety of matter, but none of them was ever truly recognized, for every mineral has contradictory properties, both in relation to itself and in relation to the other minerals with which it is mixed or of which it is composed: in that stone it was impossible to distinguish what seemed precious from what seemed worthless or even poisonous; to this day it has been impossible to define its inaccessibility to analysis and its complete contradictoriness [...]"
In his lecture on the fiftieth anniversary of Pasolini's death, Miklavž Komelj will speak about this complete contradictoriness – from Pasolini's subversion of the logic of the phallic signifier to his address to a young fascist in the name of a new communism. During the lecture, Komelj's assemblage dedicated to Pasolini, featuring stones from the Idrija hills, will also be exhibited on the stage designed by Petra Veber.