CONVERSATION FOR TWO VOICES
THURSDAY 13 OCT 2016, 19H
49 NORD 6 EST - FRAC LORRAINE - METZ (57)
Monster dialectic
With Alexandre Laumonier (editor and designer of Sensitive Zones) and Sylvain Piron (medieval anthropologist)
Monster dialectic, Sylvain Piron
This hybrid publication combines history, anthropology, and psychiatry to explore, in the form of a survey, the complex work of Opicino de Canistris (14th century). Suffering from mental disorders, this priest and papal scribe produced fascinating diagrams bringing together maps and bodies, astral and religious symbols. From an individual body to the body of Europe, he exemplified cartographic incorporation ahead of his time…
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