Voci senza Corpo. La celebrità ai tempi della pandemia.

The COVID-19 pandemic has appeared as a propelling force to creative movements for actors’ self-promotion, while at the same time causing an enforced desertion of the venues of their physical exposure.The range and degree of famous people body’s mediation was limited by the pandemic to the domesticsphere and to non-professional resources, which induced an unprecedented likeness of celebrities’ privatelives to those of their spectators. Such leveling and the disappearance of public bodies have generatedspecific cultural meaning in Italy. They have reinforced the positioning of actors at the center of thenation’s civic values.Iosono...Italia(2021) is a short inspirational film celebrating the national effort inthe face of the emergency. Exploiting on the disembodied voice-over acting of an ensemble of actors andentertainers, it evokes a common condition: the disappearence of the body imposed by the pandemic.This essay investigates such issues through the analysis of the non-localized and mobile voice. It sets thevoice-over ofIosono...Italiaagainst the background of a variety of vocal uses in the contemporary mediaexperience, especially those that induce greater intimacy with the viewer. It underscores how this productnarrows acoustically the distance between the listener and the speaker and foregrounds a choral musicality,therefore reflecting the new proxemics of the quarantine and reverberating a fantasy of equality triggeredby the pandemic