A New Sensibility towards Unfinished Ruins

Affective Knowledge Translation through Experimental Video

Dados Bibliográficos

ID12497009
AutoresPablo Arboleda (0000-0002-8634-4183, University of Glasgow, autor correspondente)
Ano2021
Volume26
Fascículo1
Páginas130-143
Data de publicação2021-02-22
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoSpace and Culture (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1206-3312 • E-ISSN: 1552-8308
EditoraSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/1206331221989962
OpenAlexW3132260469
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas3
Referências citadas45

In the last 50 years, and due to a dilapidation of funds, hundreds of public works have remained unfinished in Italy, most especially in Sicily. In 2007, the group of artists Alterazioni Video declared these modern ruins a formal architectural style—so-called Incompiuto Siciliano— through which they aim to change the buildings’ negative perception, turning it into something positive. In September 2015, I carried out an urban exploration journey during which I visited a dozen Incompiuto Siciliano works all across Sicily in one week. Based on that journey, this paper argues that a renewed sensibility towards incompletion necessarily requires original and creative methods to translate the affective knowledge gained in these sites. Therefore, through the use of personal narratives and the creation of three different experimental videos, the aim is to advance the way we translate embodied encounters with these spaces. This is relevant not only in the context of modern ruins but in further unruly spaces where aesthetic experiences emerge

Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Context (archaeology · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Literature · Narrative · Perception · Sensibility · Sociology · Style (visual arts · Visual arts · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation · Geographies of human-animal interactions · History · Participatory Visual Research Methods · Philosophy · Psychology