Documentarian, filmmaker and director, dancer, choreographer and performer: the two different backgrounds and multiple languages, eclecticism and experience of activism and political investigation of Titta C. Raccagni and Barbara Stimoli are continuously mixed in their productions.

In 2015, during an artistic residency in San Francisco at Djerassi Program – the idea for Pornopoetics, a rewriting of pornography, an investigation of imaginaries related to sexuality, was born.

The project was initiated thanks to the support of the Associazione Culturale dello Scompiglio, with which they created the first performance Pornopoetica.

The same year they make the work Diario blu(E) on the theme of identity, which is presented in the filmic version at, among others, Torino Film Festival 2016, Festival Filmmaker 2016 and Visions du réel 2017 and in the installation version at Pergine Spettacolo Aperto 2017.

Since 2018 they have been mainly dedicated to Pleasure Rocks research, a project created in collaboration with visual artist Alessia Bernardini. Pleasure Rocks has generated over the years two artist publications, a photography exhibition, a workshop, a video, and a performance installation (work in progress) presented, as per the nature of the project, in very different cultural spaces and festivals.

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[ photo by Alessia Bernardini ]