Photography and Video for a Representation of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Abruzzo

This paper represents a themed section of a broader research on the
different declinations of the disciplines of architectural representation, with respect
to the qualities of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of the architectural-cultural
landscape of Abruzzo, shared by some professors and researchers of the Department
of Architecture of the University “G. d’Annunzio” of Chieti-Pescara. The
photographic and video representations, the subject of this paper, are among the
most effective documentary evidence of the so-called Intangible Cultural Heritage.
Static or moving images represent an irreplaceable medium for recording the
multiple ephemeral creativities of the architectural-cultural landscape, allowing
the scholar to make subsequent critical evaluations. Through the analysis of some
audio-visual works related to the culture of Abruzzo – using three nonconsequential
keys: approach, progression, experience – the research analyses
some “poetics of the ephemeral” related to landscapes, architectures, subjects,
identities and memory. The study of the projects of “writing with light” allows, on
the one hand, to outline a method that can be used with a infinite collection of
documentary material and, on the other hand, it makes the subjects the interpreters
of a new permanent tale by images that becomes a document itself.