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The Antonioni House: Sensory-Temporal Architecture (2025)

Peter Spence
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In this paper I propose to re-visit the outcome of a research trip I made a few years ago to the island of Sardinia in order to capture stills and video of a dilapidated villa, La Cupola, once belonging to the Italian filmmaker Michelangelo Antonioni. The research output took the form of an essay video using a film studies methodology to critically re-assess Antonioni’s classic 1960 film L’Avventura. The research took the form of what I would term an occularcentric-cognitive approach whereby my analysis was based primarily on my visual interpretation of the villa. My mental image of La Cupola on first hearing about it was replaced by the online image in my research process, which in turn was replaced by the real image when I arrived at the site, and ultimately by the mediated images of my audio-visual essay. But what wasn’t included in this original research was an unexpected opportunity to enter inside La Cupola, which I retrospectively realised offered an entirely new understanding of the space. With reference to both film and architectural theory, this paper will seek to understand my encounter with the villa according to a primarily sensory and embodied interpretation rather than a sighted one.
typeresearch exposition
date15/04/2025
published11/12/2025
last modified11/12/2025
statuspublished
copyrightPeter Spence
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urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/3576050/3576051
doihttps://doi.org/10.22501/ruu.3576050
published inRUUKKU - Studies in Artistic Research
portal issue23. Re-Imagining


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