Federica Manfredi
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Thesis:
Learning to fly. A transnational ethnography on body suspension in Europe.
The qualitative project aims to study body suspension, understanding meanings and purposes of the practice in a transnational multi-sited approach with artistic-complementary self narration strategies. Suspensions, realized piercing the skin with hooks and hanging up protagonists, challenge body and mind limits through pain and embodied emotions, operating changes portrayed as responsible for self-moulding processes.