REMAPPING EXTREME LAND

Project and research | Alessandro Carboni
Curator | Paolo Mele and Francesca Marconi 
Assistance and documentation | Luca Coclite and Yacine Benseddik – GAP
Production | Formati Sensibili 2014 with the support of  Ramdom

Remapping Extreme Land is a site-specific interdisciplinary project and territorial research that moves across visual arts, performance, geography, listening, and narration. Conceived within the program Indagine sulle Terre Estreme, as part of GAP, curated and produced by Ramdom, the project focuses on the Salento landscape — particularly the area of Gagliano del Capo — explored at multiple geographical scales. On one hand, the artist conducted an interdisciplinary exploration of the territory, walking coastal paths and inland routes, traveling by boat, and employing tools such as field recording, photography, and video. On the other, he worked on a human scale, meeting local inhabitants and collecting stories, memories, and narratives tied to the places encountered. During the residency, participants were invited to contribute to a shared map of the territory — a dialogical and relational device that enabled the artist to gather perceptions connected to the coast and hinterland. These experiences became the generative material for the final performance: a site-specific act that restores the territory not as a backdrop, but as a living, stratified, and complex organism, rewritten through body, listening, and presence.

FULL PROJECT HERE