Francesca Alfano Miglietti

Interview

• "Corporeal Mutations: the body at the centre of extreme experimentation" (Bologna, 17/11/1998)

Biography

Francesca Alfano Miglietti is a student of the mutation of visual languages, lecturer at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Bologna, and curator of exhibitions, reviews and conventions. She lives in Milan, where she edits the review VIRUS Mutations. Author of numerous essays published in both books and reviews, she is interested in the contamination of creative spheres and the languages of boundaries, relating states of transformation and the creation of new directions in the imagery of rebellion.

She created and edits the review Intervallo/Incidenti and has organised numerous exhibitions, including: Necrofilia, Per amor del cielo, Se i fisici... , Alta Tensione, Corpo a Corpo, Colpo di Fulmine, Gioco di Forza, L'estensione del corpo, Sguardi amplificati, Orlan a Milano, JoAn l'hommede carn and La vita sin amor no tiene sentido by Marcel.li Antunez Roca, Who is going to lick my wound's by Franko B; "ROSSO VIVO"- Padiglione di Arte Contemporanea, (1999) Milan. She has invented scenarios and new locations of an imagery of mutation, such as InCARnazione (1997), and RiAnimazione (1998), which she created and directed with Antonio Caroniaa Scandicci; and Corpi e Anticorpi (1997) and Corpi Estranei (1998), international meetings of corporeal territories in Volterra. She also inaugurated FLESH and BLOOD, a corporeal exploration in video and film at the Teatro Oltre in Milano (1998).

Among her publications: Orizzonti Verticali (MR editore), Arte degli ambienti (Politi editore), Arte in Italia 60/85 (Politi editore), Arte Pericolosa (Prearo editore), ORLAN (Virus Production), Identità Mutanti (Costa e Nolan). She also edited the series of monographs Estensioni , Contaminazioni di Inizio Millennio for Costa&Nolan.