In the translated from Italian version of the article, "Empathism is the Literary Movement of the Contemporary Age," Maria Mazziotti Gillan is referenced as a participant during here workshops that she has done in the past few years in Italy and through her lifetime of poetry that fits into this movement.
"Empathism" can refer to two distinct concepts: an artistic style and a specific doctrine or movement. In the artistic context, "empathism" describes a style that aims to evoke emotional responses and empathy in the viewer through visual or other sensory elements. Some sources also link empathism to a broader movement called the "Empathic Movement," which aims to foster empathy and mutual recognition within society, according to Cambridge Scholars Publishing
The Empathic Movement / Empathism (in Italian: La Scuola Empatica / Empatismo) is a literary, artistic, philosophical and cultural movement founded in the South of Italy in 2020 within the 'New Cultural Triangle of Ancient Cilento': Omignano – “The Aphorisms Village”, Salento – “The Poetry Village”, Vallo della Lucania – “Site of Contemporary Arts Centre.” From this first “Triangle” the “Cultural Pyramid of Cilento”, established to represent the enlarged epicenter of the Movement with 25 villages involved which joined with a new cultural identity and signed a protocol agreement.
A large number of artists and writers have been associated with the movement. There are listed in the article visual artists, sculptors, writers and critics, including the American poets Genny Lim, and Maria Mazziotti Gillan, Binghamton University Professor Emeritus of English and creative writing.
The purpose of the Empathic Movement is to support the importance of emotional intelligence in response to the technocratic age, rejecting extreme individualism and social exclusions. They consider the “truth” as impossible to grasp, except for fragments and for this reason they support a fragmented vision through a subjective “point of view” and the “interdisciplinary” for the arts to have more possibilities to catch little “truths” of the existence. Empathism advocates a cultured art and believes in the importance of the return of the figure of the artist as a guide. Its major aim is to reunify all the arts and artists coming from every field to let every artist to improve himself in order to tend towards the figure of a Total Artist (and, as a consequence, push for a reunification of peoples) through a common empathetic feeling.
Maria Mazziotti Gillan's newest poetry collection is When the Stars Were Still Visible (2021). Other recent publications are the poetry and photography collection, Paterson Light and Shadow, and the poetry collections What Blooms in Winter and The Girls in the Chartreuse Jackets, a pairing of her poems with her paintings.
Maria's artist website is MariaMazziottiGillan.com and her poetry website is MariaGillan.com.
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