The Nazi bunkers along the coast of Europe and Norway are in ruins, no longer serving as functioning architectural bodies or even as a record of violent human activity; they have become a new form of media, the abstract techno-basis of a new layer of coded information. Professor Xenia Vytuleva will discuss Margherita Moscardinis 1XUnknown, an ongoing project that seeks to re-think Bunker Archaeology and to unfold the potentialities of the Atlantic Wall, an extensive system of coastal fortifications built from 19421945.

Moscardinis project originates from research into solid inhabitable forms whose permanent nature expresses the way they belong to their context while at the same time they are emancipated from it. Distinct and clear, these structures, which are devoid of foundations, also act as sculptures which have an archetypal quality. They resemble what surrounds them: the local sand that was used in their concrete compositio

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