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Alterazioni Video (Italia, 2004) |
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Incompiuto Siciliano is a project in progress that aims to identify and classify the aesthetic and formal characteristics of unfinished public architecture in Italy. The survey, carried out by Alterazioni Video together with Enrico Sgarbi and Claudia D’Aita, has so far resulted in the classification of around 500 unfinished architectural projects. The Italian region with the highest number of unfinished public works is Sicily and for this reason the style identified by the researchers, widespread in Italy during the 1960s and 1970s, was dubbed “Unfinished Sicilian”. The intention of the project was not merely to expose the phenomenon, but also to promote dynamic acceptance of it in order to trigger virtuous response mechanisms. |
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Intervallo, 2007
video DVD, 3’ 37’’
Courtesy the artists
Photo Credit: CCCS, Firenze; Valentina Muscedra |
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Alterazioni Video / CROSSING Lab
Incompiuto Siciliano – the Florence step, 2009
mixed media installation resulted by the workshop
with Alterazioni Video
produced by CCCS, Florence
Courtesy the artists
Photo Credit: CCCS, Firenze; Valentina Muscedra
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The capital of the “Unfinished Sicilian” style is Giarre, a town of 30,000 people in the province of Catania, where a relatively small area is home to 12 unfinished architectural projects, including an Olympic-sized swimming pool, a cultural centre, a flower market, a track for model cars, a civic theatre and a polo ground. In this area Alterazioni Video and the town council have built the first “Unfinished Park”, which will also house a foundation with the purpose of observing the phenomenon of unfinished architecture. The Park is the result of an operation designed to historicise the area, whose identity is strongly conditioned by the presence of unfinished public works. |
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Incompiuto Siciliano – Intervallo, 2007
video, dv pal, 3'36''
Courtesy the artists |
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In occasion of Green Platform, Alterazioni Video realized a workshop with students of the University of Florence. Within the context of the institutional cooperation between the CCCS, directed by Franziska Nori, and the Laboratorio Crossing coordinated by Professor Giacomo Pirazzoli (from the Planning Department at the Faculty of Architecture, Florence University), the aim of the workshop was to implement the project “Incompiuto Siciliano” [“Unfinished in Sicily”] involving the architectural declination of buildings in the park in the city of Giarre. Specific sustainability criteria were adopted in the planning phase providing for minimal impact on the existing buildings in the park and for respect for the unfinished architecture’s basic stylistic features. The work on the buildings went hand in hand with research into the identification of potential cycle lanes for use by visitors to the park. The laboratory was attended by: Alessio Galasso, Aura Gnerucci, Luca
Mannucci, Leonardo Martini, Dania Marzo, Iacopo Mascelloni, Eric Medri, Bianca Maria Rulli, Michela Saddi, Iolanda Bianchi and Carla Petrelli. |
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Incompiuto Siciliano – Intervallo, 2007
video, dv pal, 3'36''
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Crossing Lab
Incompiuto siciliano – the Florence step, 2009
project proposal for Chico Mendes Park
photo rendering |
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Crossing Lab
Incompiuto siciliano – the Florence step, 2009
project proposal for Olympic swimming pool
photo rendering
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