Bilingual edition (English / Italian) 24 x 30 cm (softcover) 304 pages (ill.) Euforia is a comprehensive monograph dedicated to the work and artistic activities of Tomaso Binga (pseudonym of Bianca Pucciarelli Menna, Salerno, 1931), a central figure in Italian visual and sound poetry, performance, and feminist art. Since 1971, Binga has adopted a male pseudonym as a critical gesture to expose and parody the privileges of men within the art world, using irony and paradox to question inherited structures and to advocate for gender equality. Her work explores the female body as a signifier of freedom, employing visual poetry, performance, and language play to articulate a feminism marked by humor, subversion, and critique.
Structured through a specific lexicon-Agora, Biographies, the Corporeal Nature of the Word, Correspondences, Geographies, Vaginal Value-the volume is divided into three main sections. The first part features institutional and critical essays, including contributions from Angela Tecce, Eva Fabbris, Daria Khan, Quinn Latimer, Lilou Vidal, and Stefania Zuliani, as well as a conversation between Binga and Luca Lo Pinto. The second part gathers short texts analyzing individual works and series, organized thematically to trace the development of Binga’s practice. Contributors include Marc Bembekoff, Barbara Casavecchia, Martina Cavalli, Chiara Costa, Anna Cuomo, Valérie Da Costa, Allison Grimaldi Donahue, Émilie Notéris, Raffaella Perna, Antonello Tolve, and Andrea Viliani.
The final section is devoted to Binga’s visual poems, each accompanied by an English translation, many published here for the first time. The book thus offers both scholarly analysis and direct access to Binga’s poetic output, providing a valuable resource for those interested in contemporary art, feminism, experimental poetry, and gender studies. Edited by Eva Fabbris, Lilou Vidal, Stefania Zuliani with Anna Cuomo. Graphic design by Lorenzo Mason Studio.
If you are interested in Binga’s sound poetry, don't forget the Opera Poesia (LP + Book), the first comprehensive audio collection of her performed poems, accompanied by a 52-page bilingual book with original poem scores (1976–2023).
