Where is life? Where is reality if it still exists? And what happens to our experiences?
In a world devoted to the eternal present, dominated by TV that now transforms people into spectators and consumers and relationships into role-playing games, it seems that everything that man does is now only a pale reflection of living.
In a series of narratives and interpretations, taken from his latest book La vita, non il mondo, the well-known writer Tiziano Scarpa leads us to discover the drifts of a society devoted to consumption and the spectacularization of everyday life and tries to rediscover the indissoluble relationship between real experience and the formation of the self.
Accompanying him, and sometimes hindering him, are the mechanical electronic music of Bruno Maderna, Gyorgy Ligeti, Olivier Messiaen, Piero Umiliani and others.
Born in 1963 in Venice, Tiziano Scarpa has earned a large group of readers and admirers thanks to an always original production from the guide Venezia è un pesce (Feltrinelli) awarded Stabat Mater (Einaudi – Premio Strega 2009) through poems and projects such as the poem Groppi d’amore nella oscuraglia (Einaudi, 2005) or the Discorso di una guida turistica di fronte al tramonto (Amos edizioni). His latest work is La vita, non il mondo (Life, not the world) was published by Laterza in 2010.
