Paper Short Abstract:

Carnival, the ritual of transfiguration par excellence, through visuality as a practice, allows for the deconstruction and, if desired, the subversion of the written word to enter the processes and ideascapes of contemporary tensions, exploring forms of both local and translocal imaginaries and new perspective on materiality and rarefaction.

Paper Abstract:

The presentation I propose is part of a visual experience related to a carnival in Southern Italy, the Transhumance Carnival of Tricarico, to highlight how visual ethnography and the visual arts can offer new writings of ideascape representations, exploring forms of both local and translocal imaginaries.

Thinking about "new writings" becomes a pretext for challenging the paradigm of visuality, which belongs as much to writing as it does to the world of images. This paradigm produces what we today define as hyper visual documentation, offering an opportunity to render more fluid the discourses and processes of representing oneself and the other during moments of symbolic transfiguration. These moments allow us to enter a space that is both unprecedented and codified, fostering a multisensory exploration.

Unwriting becomes both a challenge and a key to rethinking the role of social sciences in a world where the rarefaction of the digital compels us to adopt a new perspective on materiality and rarefaction both in the world we observe and in the processes and ways we have to return what we experience.