ELENA MAZZI / SARA TIRELLI
(Reggio Emilia - IT 1984)
vive e lavora a Torino - ITlives and works in Turin - IT
A fragmented world - 2016
video-installazione 05’09’’ b/n suono(Gorizia - IT 1979)
vive e lavora a Venezia - ITlives and works in Venice - IT
A fragmented world - 2016
video installation 05’09’’ b/w sound
A fragmented world si ispira alla "teoria delle fratture”, dinamiche di rottura dagliesiti non prevedibili o caotici, analizzate dal fisico teorico Bruno Giorgini. In natura, ma anche nella vita sociale e politica, tali fenomeni sono oggetto paradigmatico della scienza della complessità, rivolta a studiare il mondo in cui viviamo, e - in A fragmented world - un emblematico topos geologico: il vulcano Etna e l’impatto diretto sul territorio dei continui, e appunto imprevedibili e caotici, cambiamenti impressi al paesaggio dal processo di distruzione e costruzione dell'attività eruttiva. La stratificata geografia dell’ecoambiente etneo è analizzata pe ripercorrere visivamente la sua morfologia incessantemente dinamica attraverso le mappe dei laboratori dell'Istituto Nazionale di Geografia e Vulcanologia di Catania tra il 2005 e il 2014. E - contrappunto del parossismo naturale - un amatore corre quotidianamente fra le fratture della Valle del Bove, simbolizzando l’adattamento dell’uomo alla continua trasformazione dell’ambiente. Ripresi da un drone, corridore e vulcano prendono la leggerezza di un videogioco e scienza e arte, ricerca e espressione estetica, condensano così conoscenza oggettiva e metafora in un atto sintetico di comprensione.
courtesy le artiste
www.elenamazzi.com
www.saratirelli.com
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A fragmented world moves from the “fracture theory”, ie. those breakup dynamics whose unpredictable or chaotic outcomes were analyzed by the physical theorist Bruno Giorgini. In nature, as well as within social and political contexts, such events are typically dealt with by the science of complexity, aiming at studying the world we live in, and - in A fragmented world - an emblematic geological topos: the Etna volcano and the impact on the landscape of the continuous, and indeed unpredictable and chaotic, changes brought about by the disrupting and rebuilding forces of eruptions. The multilayered geography of the Etnean eco-environment is analyzed in order to visualize its ceaseless dynamic morphology through the maps of the Catania National Institute of Geography and Volcanology between 2005 and 2014. And - as a counterpoint to natural paroxysm - a jogger daily running through the fracked Valle del Bove symbolizes the human adaptive ability to the ever-changing environment. Filmed by a drone, the jogger and the volcano take the lightness of a videogame, by which science and art, research and aesthetic expression, condense objective knowledge and metaphoric thinking in a single, synthetic comprehending act.
courtesy the artists
www.elenamazzi.com
www.saratirelli.com
courtesy le artiste
www.elenamazzi.com
www.saratirelli.com
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A fragmented world moves from the “fracture theory”, ie. those breakup dynamics whose unpredictable or chaotic outcomes were analyzed by the physical theorist Bruno Giorgini. In nature, as well as within social and political contexts, such events are typically dealt with by the science of complexity, aiming at studying the world we live in, and - in A fragmented world - an emblematic geological topos: the Etna volcano and the impact on the landscape of the continuous, and indeed unpredictable and chaotic, changes brought about by the disrupting and rebuilding forces of eruptions. The multilayered geography of the Etnean eco-environment is analyzed in order to visualize its ceaseless dynamic morphology through the maps of the Catania National Institute of Geography and Volcanology between 2005 and 2014. And - as a counterpoint to natural paroxysm - a jogger daily running through the fracked Valle del Bove symbolizes the human adaptive ability to the ever-changing environment. Filmed by a drone, the jogger and the volcano take the lightness of a videogame, by which science and art, research and aesthetic expression, condense objective knowledge and metaphoric thinking in a single, synthetic comprehending act.
courtesy the artists
www.elenamazzi.com
www.saratirelli.com
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