Arianna Porcelli Safonov: ‘Beware of politically correctness, it is a form of censorship’. The exclusive interview

“Every year a new bugbear is produced to get us under it. When I was little, yes he must have been afraid of the Moroccans, then there were the Mad Cow, the arsenic in the water and Jehovah’s Witnesses… But we are not satisfied with the frightening social proposals. And thanks also to the climate of global terror, we spread ourselves in personalized phobias: from snakes, to spiders, to the plane, to venereal diseases … all justified with “Sorry, I have a phobia!

In this video interview we chat with the writer, performer and satirical actress Arianna Porcelli Safonov. On the role of culture in Italy, before and after the pandemic. On politically correct, a censorship we should be afraid of. On the turn that his life has had, from Project Manager to artist. And finally on the show he staged in Cagliari on June 30th at 10pm: Fiaba-phobia.

Fairy tale-phobia is one short story series that investigates phobias that accompany us, sometimes for a lifetime, sometimes more than relatives. From snakes, to spiders, to airplanes, to venereal diseases, from pandemics to sociability: fear drives human evolution and it’s not good at all.

Safonov set up Madame Pipi’s blog in 2008, a container of short stories and invectives against the social drama of our time.

Since 2014 he has written books for Fazi Editore: Fottuta Campagna (2015), a series of stories about Arianna’s life experience on the top of the Apennines between Lombardy and Liguria, very far from the surreal contemporary fashion of Green.

The second book is Storie di Matti (2017), an intense journey among the respectable sick people of today’s society in their day of universal crisis. A cynical and tender reflection on our contemporary age that would like to force us to contain, to remind us of the unhealthy pre-Basaglia times.

Information on the Festival

At the start a Cagliari there second edition of Not even the godsthe literary festival and meetings author promoted by the cooperative Vox Daya consolidated theme in the music scene in Sardinia (he owns the Karel Music Expo, in its sixteenth edition next September), but also active in other areas, such as books and the comparison of ideas. Not even the gods it promotes research and the deepening of the perception of everyday life, the sharing of knowledge, the value of human experience, crossing issues such as sustainable economy, psychology, medicine, art and spirituality.

After the successful debut last November at Palazzo Siotto, in the heart of Castello, the festival – pitch the tents until Sunday 31 to the Lazarettothe municipal center of art and culture in the district of Sant’Elia. Among the guests of this second edition, which is recognized under the title “Revolutions”the songwriter Andrea Chimentithe journalist and writer Enrica Perucchiettithe blogger Francesco Narmennithe photojournalist Giorgio Bianchithe counter-information expert Marco Pizzutithe author, writer and performer Arianna Porcelli Safonov.

To kick off the four evenings of meetings (all with free admission), tomorrow (Thursday) at 19Sara Alessandro Muroni, musician composer, artistic director of the Charme de Caroline group (four albums and related musical performances), active in the musical but also teratral field. In conversation with the reporter Giacomo Serreliand with the participation of the songwriter Andrea Chimentipresents his book “Dance me to the end of love”, published last year by Arkadia: it is the story of the author’s life experience that takes its cue from that, albeit brief, of his father, but also the story of a musical and theatrical show, “Canzoni d’amore d ‘author “, staged in 2000 in Sassari; conceived by Muroni himself – – it was a small event that saw the active participation of musicians, actors and actresses from the Sassari scene.

We remain in the musical field with the second guest of the evening, the journalist Laura Pezzino: interviewed by the artistic director of the festival, the musician and author Davide Catinaripresents In New York with Patti Smiththe “geobiography” (published this year by Giulio Perrone Editore) which traces the main stages of the great American singer and performer in the “Big Apple”.

At 9 pm the microphone switches to the Venetian Andrea De Spirt with his debut novel, Each creature is an island, also recently published (for the types of Il Saggiatore): the island is the remote one where the protagonist of the story moved, hoping to find answers on the disappearance of his brother, perhaps suicidal in that very land. In dialogue with the author, the journalist Simone Cavagnino.

Closing of the evening in music with Andrea Chimentiformer singer – from 1983 to 1989 – of Moda, one of the leading Italian rock groups of those years together with Litfiba and Diaframma, before embarking on a solo career, in 1990. Accompanied by Cristiano Roversi and Francesco Cappiotti, he will offer readings songs from his beginnings to the most recent news, characterized by his tenth studio album, “Il Deserto La Notte Il Mare”, released last fall.

But the opening day of the festival will also see the ribbon cutting of the “Tavole Zen” exhibition, dedicated to the tables of Zen Comics Storiesfrom Luca Borriero, editor and art director with a specialization in Web Designer. Always attracted by the world of comics and graphics, as well as by oriental disciplines and wisdom, combining these two passions he began to create the first Zen comics in the nineties, before arriving, in 2021, together with Sergio Peterlini who edited the texts, to his first comic book, “Storie Zen a Fumetti”, in fact, published by Edizioni Il Punto d’Incontro.

Arianna Porcelli Safonov: ‘Beware of politically correctness, it is a form of censorship’. The exclusive interview