The essay is a consideration on the relationship between visuality and the urgencies that often live science and society. The assumption that thought is structured through images and that images guide thought is the backdrop to research that crosses the world of visuality. Thanks to images and drawing it is possible to find answers to unresolved issues (Friedrich Kekulé), propose solutions to react to urgent and pressing needs (Renzo Piano), but also denounce and raise awareness regarding compelling issues (Banksy). In the visual arts, the response to ecological crises takes various forms, ranging from graphs and infographics illustrating climate data to works of art where the artist’s actions merge with evolving landscapes, prompting reflections on the relationship between man and nature. Art, as a means to address social crises, takes the form of protest pieces that often reinterpret symbols rooted in the collective consciousness and express themselves through street art. Initiatives aimed at preserving these artworks through digital archives are also emerging. To understand what is happening around us, the performing arts also operate with transversal gazes, often tracing social and environmental urgencies in the interactions between the virtual and the real. The imminence of needs is expressed in the dynamic languages of ballet reinterpretations, sometimes proposing grotesque images that amplify human impotence in the face of drastic epochal changes. Lights, syncopated choreographies and augmented reality experiments propose a multiplicity of gazes that are integrated into contemporary gestures, to reveal just some of the possible urgent performativity.

Il saggio è una riflessione sul rapporto tra la visualità e le urgenze che scienza e società spesso vivono. L’assunto che il pensiero si strutturi per immagini e che le immagini guidino il pensiero fa da sfondo a una ricerca che attraversa il mondo della visualità. Grazie alle immagini e al disegno è possibile trovare risposte a questioni irrisolte (Friedrich Kekulé), proporre soluzioni per reagire a urgenze e necessità impellenti (Renzo Piano), ma anche denunciare e sensibilizzare riguardo questioni stringenti (Banksy). Nelle arti visive, la risposta alle crisi ecologiche assume varie forme, da grafici e infografiche che illustrano dati climatici, fino ad opere d’arte in cui l’azione dell’artista si fonde con quella del paesaggio in evoluzione, suscitando riflessioni sul rapporto tra uomo e natura. L’arte come strumento per affrontare le crisi sociali si concretizza in opere di protesta che spesso reinterpretano simboli radicati nell’immaginario collettivo e si esprimono attraverso la street art. Emergono anche iniziative per preservare queste opere tramite archivi digitali. Per comprendere cosa sta accadendo intorno a noi, anche le arti performative operano con sguardi trasversali, spesso rintracciando nelle interazioni tra virtuale e reale, urgenze sociali e ambientali. L’imminenza delle necessità si risolve nei linguaggi dinamici di reinterpretazioni ballettistiche, talvolta proponendo immagini grottesche che amplificano l’impotenza umana di fronte ai drastici cambiamenti epocali. Luci, coreografie sincopate e sperimentazioni in realtà aumentata propongono una molteplicità di sguardi che si integrano nelle gestualità contemporanee, per rivelare soltanto alcune delle possibili performatività urgenti.

Irene Cazzaro, Cristina Pellegatta, Starlight Vattano (2024). Espressioni urgenti tra scienza e società. XY, 7(13), 8-15 [10.15168/xy.v7i13.2943].

Espressioni urgenti tra scienza e società

Irene Cazzaro;
2024

Abstract

The essay is a consideration on the relationship between visuality and the urgencies that often live science and society. The assumption that thought is structured through images and that images guide thought is the backdrop to research that crosses the world of visuality. Thanks to images and drawing it is possible to find answers to unresolved issues (Friedrich Kekulé), propose solutions to react to urgent and pressing needs (Renzo Piano), but also denounce and raise awareness regarding compelling issues (Banksy). In the visual arts, the response to ecological crises takes various forms, ranging from graphs and infographics illustrating climate data to works of art where the artist’s actions merge with evolving landscapes, prompting reflections on the relationship between man and nature. Art, as a means to address social crises, takes the form of protest pieces that often reinterpret symbols rooted in the collective consciousness and express themselves through street art. Initiatives aimed at preserving these artworks through digital archives are also emerging. To understand what is happening around us, the performing arts also operate with transversal gazes, often tracing social and environmental urgencies in the interactions between the virtual and the real. The imminence of needs is expressed in the dynamic languages of ballet reinterpretations, sometimes proposing grotesque images that amplify human impotence in the face of drastic epochal changes. Lights, syncopated choreographies and augmented reality experiments propose a multiplicity of gazes that are integrated into contemporary gestures, to reveal just some of the possible urgent performativity.
2024
XY
Irene Cazzaro, Cristina Pellegatta, Starlight Vattano (2024). Espressioni urgenti tra scienza e società. XY, 7(13), 8-15 [10.15168/xy.v7i13.2943].
Irene Cazzaro; Cristina Pellegatta; Starlight Vattano
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