Il corpo tra resistenza, forma e relazione. Appunti sull’immaginario sportivo nelle pratiche performative italiane

The text considers some examples of Italian performance art in which sport plays an essential role, especially in the last thirty years. Compared to the isolated body of the artist that occurs in the seventies, in recent decades sport has been used in the art of action in a highly metaphorical manner of certain hegemonic cultural models, mostly male, or as a collective device through the what to divert the principles of competitiveness and confrontation in the direction of collaboration.