Quaderni di Venezia Arti



Quaderni di Venezia Arti

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Quaderni di Venezia Arti, ideata da Wladimiro Dorigo, ritorna in una nuova serie volta alla pubblicazione di monografie, studi e atti di convegni, che abbiano come tema l’indagine teorica, storica e critica delle arti, a partire dalle ricerche svolte nell’ambito del Dipartimento di Filosofia e Beni culturali dell’Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia. La collana accoglie saggi e contributi scientifici di studiosi italiani e stranieri, con particolare attenzione all’esito delle indagini sviluppate nell’ambito dei dottorati e attraverso le tesi di laurea magistrali; inoltre, si propone come strumento per accentuare il confronto di idee sul piano metodologico e su quello delle prassi artistiche, come recupero della memoria artistica e come osservatorio delle tendenze culturali contemporanee.

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  • Unveiling the Void: Erasure, Latency, Potentiality
  • Proceedings of 7th Postgraduate International Conference
  • Asia Benedetti, Marta Del Mutolo, Ester Giachetti, Ilaria Grippa
  • 15 Dicembre 2025

  • This volume presents the proceedings of the 7th Postgraduate International Conference organised by the Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (8-10 October 2025). The event gathered early-career researchers to explore the notion of the relative void in the visual arts, spanning performative gestures, portable altars, drawing practices, architectural spaces, exhibitions, and feminist reconfigurations of artistic agency. Traditionally conceived as ‘empty space’, the void has evolved from its Aristotelian definition as absence of matter, through empirical physics, to profound artistic and philosophical interpretations. Its meaning oscillates between Western dualisms of fullness and emptiness and the Eastern conception (e.g. Jullien) of the void as integral to existence. Within contemporary practices, particularly feminist theory (Irigaray, Butler), this oscillation becomes a political tool: reconsidering absence can dismantle hierarchies of form and subjectivity, creating alternative spaces for visibility and care. Moving beyond the idea of an absolute void, the conference addressed the relative void as a shifting, relational condition where meaning arises through communication, absence, and transformation. If the void remains a “scientific reserve not yet exploited” (Burini), it represents “not a lack but an opportunity” (DeLillo): a field capable of questioning the very conditions of artistic production and perception. The contributions assembled here demonstrate that analysing the void, rather than fullness, shifts the gaze towards the margins of artworks: the aftermath of gestures, sustaining intervals, and the disappearance of substantial bodies. This approach proposes an aesthetic and methodological turn attentive to traces, thresholds, and silences that shape perception. Crucially, it also addresses erasures in histories marked by trauma and genocide – absences that artistic gestures, curatorial, and architectural practices can interrogate and make visible. The papers are organised around three axes: Erasure, Latency, and Potentiality.

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