This investigation departs from the interpretation of racing circuits as scars inscribed within the landscape: cuts that register and sustain the passage of a vital flow, whether active or latent. The trace is understood as the outcome of an originary gesture: an act of territorial incision that generates the conditions for an autonomous field of forces, irreducible to the logics governing the external universe. The circuit is therefore no longer conceived in terms of a technological infrastructure, rather as the residue of an operation that exceeds its functional dimension, configuring itself as a device capable of activating and rendering perceptible a field of forces, whose outcome manifests as a persistent pulsation inscribed within the ground. From this assumption, the circuit is approached as a form of primitive writing. The inscription emerges as the residue of a repeated gesture, as the result of the trajectory traced by the vehicle through the ritual of movement. Through its passage, the car does not merely traverse the track; it excites it, intensifying the pulsation of the flow that persists within it. Movement is thus translated into a persistent trace, bearing witness to the vital current that continues to traverse the ground as a latent intensity. Within the boundaries of this condition, straights and curves are no longer understood as geometric entities, but as differentiated states of intensity. The traversal of the straight results in a spatial compression, adhering to a directional continuity that stabilizes and channels the flow; conversely, the tracing of the curve induces deceleration, in which the field dilates, thickens, and destabilizes, allowing the flow to surface and release the accumulated pressure. In the condition of abandonment, the trace persists as a healed wound. Gradually reabsorbed by natural processes, it transforms into a latent inscription, as the memory of a suspended rituality. The flow withdraws from perception, remaining as residual intensity. From this condition emerges the possibility of reactivation, understood not as functional restoration, but as the re-emergence of the field of forces embedded in the memory of the scar. In architectural terms, the intervention is conceived as a system capable of transforming the natural force of the wind into a sonic phenomenon, first intercepting the flow, then directing it, and finally accelerating it. Wind thus replaces mechanical ritual, introducing an unstable and cyclical dimension. In proximity to the practices of Land Art and performance, the project assumes the landscape as a sensitive surface and the intervention as an act that unfolds over time. Emerging from the area adjacent to the abandoned circuit of Morano sul Po, the system is configured as a resonant device, rendering audible the memory of the flow that generated it, restoring to the scar its vital and ritual dimension.
La presente indagine prende avvio dall’interpretazione dei circuiti automobilistici come ferite inscritte nel paesaggio: incisioni che registrano e sostengono il passaggio di un flusso vitale, attuale o latente. Il tracciato è inteso come esito di un gesto originario; un atto di incisione territoriale che genera le condizioni per un campo di forze autonomo e non riconducibile alle logiche che governano le dinamiche del sistema esterno. Il circuito non è quindi inteso nei termini tecnologici della macchina infrastrutturale, piuttosto come il residuo di un’operazione che eccede la propria dimensione funzionale per configurarsi come dispositivo capace di attivare e rendere percepibile un campo di forze, il cui esito si manifesta come la persistente pulsazione inscritta nel suolo. A partire da questa assunzione, il circuito è interpretato come una forma di scrittura primitiva. L’iscrizione emerge come residuo di un gesto ripetuto, esito della traiettoria descritta dal veicolo attraverso la ritualità del movimento. Tramite il suo passaggio, la macchina non si limita alla percorrenza del tracciato, piuttosto ne innesca l’eccitazione, intensificando la pulsazione del flusso che vi insiste. Il movimento si traduce così in una traccia persistente, testimonianza di una corrente vitale che continua ad attraversare il suolo come intensità latente. All’interno di questa condizione, rettilinei e curve non sono più intesi come entità geometriche ma come stati di intensità differenziata. L’attraversamento del rettilineo si traduce nella compressione spaziale, aderente a una continuità direzionale che stabilizza e canalizza il flusso; contrariamente, il ricalco della curva descrive una decelerazione, in cui il campo si dilata, si addensa e si destabilizza, consentendo al flusso di affiorare e di rilasciare l’elevata pressione accumulata. Nella condizione di abbandono, la traccia persiste come ferita rimarginata. Progressivamente riassorbita dai processi naturali, essa si trasforma in un’iscrizione latente, memoria di una ritualità sospesa. In questo caso, il flusso si sottrae alla percezione, permanendo come intensità residua. È da questa condizione che emerge la possibilità di una riattivazione, intesa non come ripristino funzionale, ma come riaccensione del campo di forze persistente nella memoria della cicatrice. In termini architettonici, l’intervento si configura come un sistema capace di trasformare la forza naturale del vento in fenomeno sonoro, intercettando dapprima il flusso, quindi accelerandolo e infine eccitandolo. Il vento si sostituisce quindi alla ritualità meccanica, introducendo un’instabile dimensione ciclica. In prossimità delle pratiche della Land Art e dell’arte performativa, il tentativo progettuale assume il paesaggio come superficie sensibile e l’intervento come atto che si dispiega nel tempo. Inserendosi nel contesto dell’ormai abbandonato circuito di Morano sul Po, il sistema si configura come dispositivo risonante capace di rendere udibile la memoria del flusso che lo ha generato, restituendo alla ferita la sua dimensione vitale e rituale.
Space : time : interpreting racing circuits as land scars
Angelucci, Agnese
2024/2025
Abstract
This investigation departs from the interpretation of racing circuits as scars inscribed within the landscape: cuts that register and sustain the passage of a vital flow, whether active or latent. The trace is understood as the outcome of an originary gesture: an act of territorial incision that generates the conditions for an autonomous field of forces, irreducible to the logics governing the external universe. The circuit is therefore no longer conceived in terms of a technological infrastructure, rather as the residue of an operation that exceeds its functional dimension, configuring itself as a device capable of activating and rendering perceptible a field of forces, whose outcome manifests as a persistent pulsation inscribed within the ground. From this assumption, the circuit is approached as a form of primitive writing. The inscription emerges as the residue of a repeated gesture, as the result of the trajectory traced by the vehicle through the ritual of movement. Through its passage, the car does not merely traverse the track; it excites it, intensifying the pulsation of the flow that persists within it. Movement is thus translated into a persistent trace, bearing witness to the vital current that continues to traverse the ground as a latent intensity. Within the boundaries of this condition, straights and curves are no longer understood as geometric entities, but as differentiated states of intensity. The traversal of the straight results in a spatial compression, adhering to a directional continuity that stabilizes and channels the flow; conversely, the tracing of the curve induces deceleration, in which the field dilates, thickens, and destabilizes, allowing the flow to surface and release the accumulated pressure. In the condition of abandonment, the trace persists as a healed wound. Gradually reabsorbed by natural processes, it transforms into a latent inscription, as the memory of a suspended rituality. The flow withdraws from perception, remaining as residual intensity. From this condition emerges the possibility of reactivation, understood not as functional restoration, but as the re-emergence of the field of forces embedded in the memory of the scar. In architectural terms, the intervention is conceived as a system capable of transforming the natural force of the wind into a sonic phenomenon, first intercepting the flow, then directing it, and finally accelerating it. Wind thus replaces mechanical ritual, introducing an unstable and cyclical dimension. In proximity to the practices of Land Art and performance, the project assumes the landscape as a sensitive surface and the intervention as an act that unfolds over time. Emerging from the area adjacent to the abandoned circuit of Morano sul Po, the system is configured as a resonant device, rendering audible the memory of the flow that generated it, restoring to the scar its vital and ritual dimension.| File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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