David Le Breton Author

Gustavo Giacosa is an actor, theatre producer, choreographer and exhibition organiser. He began his training in 1991 under Pippo Delbono. In 2005, he founded the ContemporArt Cultural Association in Genoa and began exploring the relationship between art and madness in the various forms art takes, organising several exhibitions on this topic, such as Banditi dell'arte at Halle Saint Pierre in Paris, and Eric Derkenne, Champs de bataille at Collection de l'Art Brut. Giacosa moved to France in 2012, where he founded his own theatre company: SIC.12. David Le Breton is professor of Sociology at the University of Strasbourg and a member of the Institut Universitaire de France. He is the author of Disparaitre de soi. Une tentation contemporaine, La sociologie du corps, Expériences de la douleur. Entre destruction et renaissance, Anthropologie du corps et modernité and Tenir. Douleur chronique et réinvention de soi.