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[Texto disponible solo en inglés] The Invasion of the Super-normals and the Resistance of the Mole Man
Performance-discussion organised by Action30 Group


Participating: Pierangelo Di Vittorio, Giuseppe Palumbo, Enrico Mastropierro, Giovanni D’Aloia

The superhero is a kind of Messiah. He comes to save us. He can defend us against the criminals or protect us from accidents and natural disasters. He could be a hyperbolical representation of the police and the world order, but also, and simultaneously, an allegory of the welfare state, that guarantees a certain amount of security against the accidents of life. The superhero could present himself in the form of a Dux or a Führer, but he could also be the new man announced by the proletarian revolutions.
Today we are no more keen to confide our salvation to a superior power. As from the Sixties, the superheroes had progressively lowered themselves to take part in the everyday life problems. They have become the icons of a “normality”, considered as a unique source of significance and worth. After 11th September, a further awareness has arisen: that the only possible heroes are the average people, sometimes almost the victims.
The great superheroes have died and that is okay. By dying however, they have given birth to the crowd of small super-normals. A terrible species of mutants has invaded sports, fiction, reality shows, everyday life. Exceptional only to the level necessary to render brighter the normality, by levitating it from within. The performance of the super-normals: that is our everyday doping.
This reality is accompanied by a substantial economy of the “monstrous”. The analysis of phenomena such as hooliganism and bullying shows that the normalizing processes base themselves on rendering banal the racist outbreaks. One should dig deep into hell in order to encounter the normality, intended as something elevated, superior, subliminal.
But in the Earth’s womb, resistance is preparing. “I am not only made of rubbish, that is why I will challenge you with my rubbish!”. The erudition of mole women and men shakes the normality and gives space to radical politics.

Action30 is a group of graphic designers, photographers, artists, video-makers, djs, scholars, journalists and activists residing in Italy and abroad, who aim to perceive the “new” forms of racism and fascism through the magnifying glass of the Nineteen thirties. The tragic lucidity of those years should render less opaque the today’s landscapes and give way to new critical and creative positions. The initial hypothesis is that we are living a new edition of the Thirties and, as a consequence, it is not enough only to analyse, interpret and explain. We should do something, take action. For Action30 this means, firstly to put in question the usual “formats”: both at the level of knowledge transmission, hibernated in the traditional academic form, and at the level of communication, diluted in spectacular and purely entertaining forms.

Action30 is also a website (http://www.action30.it ), a weblog, where researches, discussions and editorial work meet together (www.action30.it/blog ), and a cultural association based in the city of Bari, which activities include the creation of books, audiovisual materials, performances and events.

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[Texto disponible solo en inglés] The Invasion of the Super-normals and the Resistance of the Mole Man
Performance-discussion organised by Action30 Group


Participating: Pierangelo Di Vittorio, Giuseppe Palumbo, Enrico Mastropierro, Giovanni D’Aloia

The superhero is a kind of Messiah. He comes to save us. He can defend us against the criminals or protect us from accidents and natural disasters. He could be a hyperbolical representation of the police and the world order, but also, and simultaneously, an allegory of the welfare state, that guarantees a certain amount of security against the accidents of life. The superhero could present himself in the form of a Dux or a Führer, but he could also be the new man announced by the proletarian revolutions.
Today we are no more keen to confide our salvation to a superior power. As from the Sixties, the superheroes had progressively lowered themselves to take part in the everyday life problems. They have become the icons of a “normality”, considered as a unique source of significance and worth. After 11th September, a further awareness has arisen: that the only possible heroes are the average people, sometimes almost the victims.
The great superheroes have died and that is okay. By dying however, they have given birth to the crowd of small super-normals. A terrible species of mutants has invaded sports, fiction, reality shows, everyday life. Exceptional only to the level necessary to render brighter the normality, by levitating it from within. The performance of the super-normals: that is our everyday doping.
This reality is accompanied by a substantial economy of the “monstrous”. The analysis of phenomena such as hooliganism and bullying shows that the normalizing processes base themselves on rendering banal the racist outbreaks. One should dig deep into hell in order to encounter the normality, intended as something elevated, superior, subliminal.
But in the Earth’s womb, resistance is preparing. “I am not only made of rubbish, that is why I will challenge you with my rubbish!”. The erudition of mole women and men shakes the normality and gives space to radical politics.

Action30 is a group of graphic designers, photographers, artists, video-makers, djs, scholars, journalists and activists residing in Italy and abroad, who aim to perceive the “new” forms of racism and fascism through the magnifying glass of the Nineteen thirties. The tragic lucidity of those years should render less opaque the today’s landscapes and give way to new critical and creative positions. The initial hypothesis is that we are living a new edition of the Thirties and, as a consequence, it is not enough only to analyse, interpret and explain. We should do something, take action. For Action30 this means, firstly to put in question the usual “formats”: both at the level of knowledge transmission, hibernated in the traditional academic form, and at the level of communication, diluted in spectacular and purely entertaining forms.

Action30 is also a website (http://www.action30.it ), a weblog, where researches, discussions and editorial work meet together (www.action30.it/blog ), and a cultural association based in the city of Bari, which activities include the creation of books, audiovisual materials, performances and events.

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Mattia Casalegno

Mattia Casalegno

Italy Roma, United States Los Angeles