Archival Resonance

Marco Dell' Abate

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The thesis deals with the theme of cultural loss in Salento (South-East of Italy) by investigating 4 different contexts where loss is happening, and how elements of cultural heritage translate and degrade into the contemporary age: • Language, with an investigation of the ancient Grìko language, a tongue of lower Salento, in state of disappearing • The Olive Tree, once a cornerstone of Salentinian agrarian tradition, now subjected to a rapid decay due to the Xylella bacteria, and the political/social inability to deal with the problem • Dry-stone walls, a practice in process of being forgotten. This theme is used as a gateway to talk about embodied cognition, and the impossibility to translate a whole culture in a digital context • Taranta, once a practice of emotional re/expression, now disappeared in its entire- ty as a ritual and only existing as a memory

type	research exposition
date	08/07/2023
published	07/02/2024
last modified	07/02/2024
status	published
share status	public
copyright	Marco Dell'Abate
license	CC BY
language	English
url	https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/2229824/2229823
published in	Royal Academy of Art, The Hague
portal issue	1. Publications 2023

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