AntoloGaia. Vivere sognando e non sognare di vivere: i miei anni Settanta

Porpora Marcasciano starts from herself and, through her own biography, tells us about the 1970s from a special point of view. Hers is a deviant and scandalous experience, a “continuous crush”, made up of demonstrations, passions, fears, dreams and sexuality, in which she encounters many small and large characters, builds the first LGBT collectives, the first “pride” events and the nascent gay movement, which comes into contact with the revolutionary movement of those years, pushing it to become aware of itself and its own body. A reality in which trans, gay, lesbian, women and others revolutionise their own lives and, by extension, that of the world. A “fabulous” story, until it is tragically overwhelmed by AIDS and the instrumental narrative of those who describe the virus as the “gay plague”. The atmosphere turns from joyful to gloomy, and a sad feeling of powerlessness takes over the protagonists of that season, erasing the memory of a decade. Until the present day, when everything seems to have been “normalised” by the laws of the market. Porpora reacts to this removal by reconstructing that history and the links between the modern and the postmodern, necessary to rework a way of thinking and a culture capable of not being neutralised.