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Marinella Senatore
Structural Atmospheres
collective action as form
ART-STA-SEN
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collective action as form
Marinella Senatore
ART-STA-SEN
collective action as form
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ART-STA-SEN
Orgin:
Italy
Field Notes:
Communities contribute stories and movement that are then framed through scaffolds signage and choreographed routes
Defining Moment:
The parade and festival projects where illuminated structures map temporary shared space in the city

Marinella Senatore

( 
1977–
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Senatore built a world where community becomes material — parades, workshops, and performances forming civic choreography.

Her works reveal participation as architectural rhythm.

How does collective action structure form here?
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Collective action is often understood as social performance; in Marinella Senatore’s work, it functions structurally to organize form across participation.

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Parades, workshops, and performances operate so that choreography emerges from interaction, authorship disperses, and form is regulated through shared activity. Structure unfolds socially rather than individually.

Position

Time as Material

Duration, aging, fading, accumulation, or delay is integral to the work. Form unfolds rather than presents itself immediately.

In Marinella Senatore’s work, this approach appears where collective action unfolds over duration.
Spatial Reduction
Space is clarified through subtraction, compression, and restraint.
Structural Atmospheres
Atmosphere emerges from underlying structural and material systems.
Proportion
Proportion organizes coherence through measured intervals, scale, and relation.
Space
Space is structured through openings, intervals, and boundary conditions.
Structure
Structure holds the work through rules, joins, and controlled relationships between parts.
Art
Form operates as a site for material, perceptual, and conceptual inquiry.
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By Structural Focus

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How are these related?
Quiet Modernism relates practices through how form is organized rather than how it appears. Connections emerge through shared structural conditions — such as repetition, constraint, spatial organization, material behavior, or duration — even when outcomes differ.

A single grouping may reflect multiple overlapping structural concerns.
Susana Guerrero
material as myth
Ruth Vollmer
geometry as organism

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