5th EDITION 23-26.09.2021
November 7th, 17.00
The concept of camp is a very slippery one. It was theorised for the first time by American critic Susan Sontag, in her 1964 essay “Notes on Camp’: “the essence of camp is its love of the unnatural:of artifice and exaggeration”. Pastiche, theatricality, irony and a sort of cheekiness are key to understanding camp, which oftenly functions as “something of a private code” according to Sontag. Her definition was contested on many occasions by different critics, especially regarding its political and subversive nature. Among the various lists of people & things that file under camp you’ll find the opera, the androgyne, the Art Nouveau, Jeff Koons, The Catholic Church, Jackie Curtis, Jean Cocteau, Donald Trump. They’re all over-the- top somehow, but you’ll have to join the talk to really connect the dots.
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