Autoritratti

We present the volume Autoritratti (Quodlibet, 2024), a participatory art project that calls into question the unconscious and literature. In 2018 Tommaso Spazzini Villa involved over 361 inmates from different Italian prisons, entrusting each of them with a different page from a copy of Homer's Odyssey. On the single sheet, each participant was invited to intervene with underlining and comments, highlighting words so as to compose complete sentences. The Homeric text is thus transformed into a kind of stage backdrop, where the real actors in the field are the participants and the space for expression that is made available to draw their own “self-portrait.”

Speakers include Tommaso Spazzini Villa, author of the volume Silvia Romani, author