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Odwrócenie perspektywy. Empatyczna praktyka kolektywu Rotor

Publication date: 19.08.2020

Arts & Cultural Studies Review, 2020, Issue 3 (45), pp. 291 - 300

https://doi.org/10.4467/20843860PK.20.028.12588

Authors

Krzysztof Siatka
Institute of Media Arts, University of the National Education Commission, Krakow
, Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4886-5911 Orcid
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Odwrócenie perspektywy. Empatyczna praktyka kolektywu Rotor

Abstract

A Reversed Perspective. The Empathetic Practice of the Rotor Collective

In this study I reflect upon the project Da quassùètutta unaltra cosa (From Above It Is Something Different Altogether), executed by Rotor in 2018 in Palermo, for the Manifesta 12 European Nomadic Biennial. The Belgian collective of architects and designers attempted to recycle a site and a space in order to give it back to the inhabitants. Pizzo Sella, a picturesque slope in the vicinity of Palermo, is the location in question, where developers began erecting a housing estate in the 1980s. But the construction was never completed, and the artists turned the hollow concrete structures, which are marks of trauma today, into platform-like viewpoints, so producing a unique experience. A reversed perspective, besides offering magnificent outlooks, may contribute to reinstating the human and nature symbiosis. The success of the chosen method is a result of an empathetic research attitude to the materials found in the area. Repurposing destroyed buildings is, to me, an example of the ancient practice of appropriation referred to as spolia. Those I wish to define broadly: as secondary, or reclaimed substances that make cognition possible for a body situated in a relation with the world.

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Information: Arts & Cultural Studies Review, 2020, Issue 3 (45), pp. 291 - 300

Article type: Original article

Titles:

Polish:

Odwrócenie perspektywy. Empatyczna praktyka kolektywu Rotor

English:

A Reversed Perspective. The Empathetic Practice of the Rotor Collective

Authors

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4886-5911

Krzysztof Siatka
Institute of Media Arts, University of the National Education Commission, Krakow
, Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4886-5911 Orcid
All publications →

Institute of Media Arts, University of the National Education Commission, Krakow
Poland

Published at: 19.08.2020

Article status: Open

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Krzysztof Siatka (Author) - 100%

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