vernissage 27 august, 18:00

SISMYCITY is photographic project on the aftermath of the earthquake which struck L’Aquila and its surrounding area on April 6, 2009

Developed over a year by the fuori_vista association, SISMYCITY narrates what the earthquake severed and crudely showed up as the constituent elements of the city: i.e. the profound connection between building and dwelling, the system of relations between individual and collective identities on which the shared sense of common good is based.

In the context of the post-earthquake city of L’Aquila with all its media overexposure, fuori_vista wished to implement a project of composite communications which was innovative in its research methodology. This implied a concept of authorship as the sharing of skills for the purposes of a joint project.

The project includes an exhibition and a conference to be held in the historic heart of the civitas, the Palazzo Ducale, while Venice itself becomes a city-wide gallery to attract the interest of large numbers of people in the systematic documentary images of the post-earthquake situation and thus contribute to collective thinking on the future of the city.

SISMYCITY is a collateral event of the 12th International Architecture Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia

The results have been collected in a communication project made out of:
-a photographic survey over a year
-a touring exhibition
-a conference
-a pubblication