Topografia del Trauma

Research project
Valle del Belice and other places
2009-2010
Curators: Laura Cantarella and Lucia Giuliano

Topography of trauma is a research project begun in 2008 as a recognition on european scale of sites affected and modified by different types of trauma, which then took the form of a more detailed study of the Belice Valley, in Sicily. This second phase of research, structured in two workshops held in 2009 and in 2010 in the sicilian territories affected by the earthquake of 1968, generated a large narrative archive composed of both audiovisual and textual materials which has served to break down the documentation of the Belice area and then to reassemble and restore it to its own critical representation.

Topografia del Trauma

Research project
Valle del Belice and other places
2009-2010
Curators: Laura Cantarella and Lucia Giuliano

Topography of trauma is a research project begun in 2008 as a recognition on european scale of sites affected and modified by different types of trauma, which then took the form of a more detailed study of the Belice Valley, in Sicily. This second phase of research, structured in two workshops held in 2009 and in 2010 in the sicilian territories affected by the earthquake of 1968, generated a large narrative archive composed of both audiovisual and textual materials which has served to break down the documentation of the Belice area and then to reassemble and restore it to its own critical representation.

Invited participants: Rafael Argullol, writer Barcelona; Josep Baguena, geographer Barcelona; Gabriele Basilico, photographer Milan; Giuseppe Barbera, agronomist Palermo; Lorenzo Barbera, sociologist CRESM Partanna; Andrea Botto, photographer Rapallo; Marco Brizzi, Beyond Media Firenze; Gaspare Caliri, ethno semiotician Bologna; Roberto Collovà, architect Palermo; Ludovico Corrao, Fondazione Orestiadi GIbellina; Gioacchino De Simone, Adaciu Gibellina; Giulia Fiocca, Palermo; Enzo Fiammetta, Orestiadi Foundation Gibellina; Nicola Giuliano Leone, architect Palermo; Paola Grimaldi, professor Santa Ninfa; Franco Farinelli, geographer Bologna, Arata Isozaki, architect Japan; Alessandro La Grassa CRESM GIbellina, Teresa La Rocca, architect Palermo; Francesco Marsciani, ethno-semiotician Bologna; Francesc Munoz, geographer Barcelona; Chiara Rizzica, architect Catania; Elena Rocchi, architect Barcelona; Lorenzo Romito, Stalker Roma; Alfredo Ronchetta, architect Torino; Piero Rovigatti, engineer Roma; Andrea Sciascia architect Palermo; Ferdinanda VIgliani, Centro Studi e Documentazione Pensiero Femminile, Torino; Juan Alfonso Zapata, architect and photographer, Barcelona.

Photo credits: Laura Cantarella