how about militarized locations?

Note I – Mapping Militarized Geographies

Matilde Baldassari

Student
Matilde Baldassari
Academic staff
Diego Tonus
Course
ORIGINAL COPY
Program
BA Major Art
Semester
2022/23 SS

Baldassari Matilde
Note I – Mapping Militarized Geographies
Video HD, Color/Sound, 2’25’’
Video documentation
2023

 

Note I – Mapping Militarized Geographies is a video registration of documentary character depicting an ongoing practice and interest of the artist towards abandoned locations. In Note I, the artist records the inner geography of a former military base on Italian territory.

Notwithstanding the inherent political statement of the recording, infiltrating militarized areas unauthorized, the artist wants to keep track of an evolving process. On the same level, the video discloses a certain concern for the question of abandonment of non-civilian architecture and subsequent topographic consequences of militarized and de-militarized geographies.

A project made in the course

ORIGINAL COPY

ORIGINAL COPY is devised as a space where participants question the meaning of an ‘original’ and its ‘copy’ in contemporary art by exploring various practices of reproduction, copying, and remaking, as well as examining their power as active gestures and critical interpretations to arrive to a ‘new original’. What reproduction modes and techniques are available nowadays to an artist? What is the meaning of ‘original’ in the historical moment we are living in and what is its relationship to authenticity? What is a copy and what is a ‘new original’?
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