Cosmicomics: dialogues between science, music, signs and words

Festival
Friday 21 April 2023
h. 19:30
Borgna Studio Theater
Cosmicomics: dialogues between science, music, signs and words

In collaboration with INAF

Daniele Longo - Musician
Debora Mancini - Actress
Stefano Sandrelli - Astrophysicist INAF Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera
with Daniela Tediosi, live painting
audio-lighting direction Andrea Pozzoli

Cosmicomics include a collection of 12 short stories, each of which is introduced by a quick scientific exposition. The protagonist is Qfwfq with a bizarre, palindromic name formed by a series of unpronounceable consonants. It has the age of the cosmos and along its lifetime of billions of years has taken different forms. He is as old as the cosmos but in the events he narrates he also appears naïve, bewildered, and acerbic. With
Cosmicomics
also means all of Calvin's short stories on the cosmic theme. Among the short stories chosen:
The Implosion
,
All in a Point
,
Endless Games
.