Vendicari is a dreamlike space where plant and animal life, air, earth, and water, colors and light merge into a single entity. Here, one can swim in a sea of sensations, letting oneself be traversed by a nature that is not merely a backdrop, but a living, pulsating presence.
Second-year Visual Arts students from the MADE Program – Accademia di Belle Arti di Siracusa inhabited the Vendicari Reserve through a residential program led by Giulia Mazzone and Giuseppe Spina (@circuito_nomadica). The landscape became a laboratory, a space for observation and listening, where they experimented with Super8 filmmaking and field recording practices to explore nature not only visually, but with their entire sensory presence.
Through the machinalive and shared experiences, the students manipulated time, studied image flows, and explored thoughts and emotions, allowing unexpected perspectives to emerge. This process produced audiovisual works, both individual and collective, mapping out a dreamlike elsewhere: a rewritten landscape where the camera becomes a body, and the body itself an instrument of vision.
In this process, the camera is never merely a technical tool, but a living machine: a sensitive organism capable of abstraction and interpretation, uniting gesture and thought, the aesthetic and the poetic, transforming into an instrument for reading, writing, and rewriting the world.
