Transit-Project
From 2006 I started exploring Abruzzo’s abandoned railways. More that 200km of dismissed lines just in Chieti’s province (southern Abruzzo), one of the most extensive and best preserved railway’s heritage in Europe.
I discovered stations, bridges, tunnels, electric plants, trains, a monumental fortune, completely abandoned. Thanks to my smartphone and Google Earth, I started geolocalising all the encountered sites, creating a digital archive of all these emergencies, and I started to shoot and describe this patrimonium: Transit-Attuale.
From november 2010 till june 2011, I searched somewhere else railways stories; Romania, Senegal, Mauritanie, Thailand, Cina, Morocco, Sri Lanka, and Ex Jugoslavia: Transit-Atrove. In summer ‘11, I organised several multimedia happening all along the abandoned railway, showing stories I collected abroad, and using abandoned railway infrastructures as exposition areas: Transit-Azione. These events where non-authorised, completely self-organised and self-financed: the aim of these happenings was to give life – also if just for a few hours – to dead but still wonderful and accessible places.
Other videos of Transit-Project can be found on my vimeo channel: www.vimeo.com/mariotrave
стан – stan
Check www.mariotrave.tumblr.com for and follow the progress of the work.
Civilians
Ortona a Mare is a sleepy coastal Italian town, a little point in a map at the same latitude of Rome. This town is internationally know as the Italian Stalingrad, as it was the only door-by-door battle of the entire IIWW’s Italian Campaign. In december ‘43 Ortona was the epicenter of an extremely ferocious fight in between Canadians and Germans, as Ortona was the ending (or starting) point of the so-called Gustav Line, a defensive line held by Germans, phisically splitting in two the entire Italian peninsula; in between winter ‘43 and may ‘44 that line became – by chance, by reason, by fate – the Frontier in between Nazis and Allied, Freedom and Slavery, Democracy and Totalitarism, Good and Evil. One line, one border, two sides of the entire history face by face, within walking distance in between.
In the middle, civilians.
Individuals, families, people, neither fascists nor partisans nor soldiers, just children, women, olders, youngsters, experiencing – by chance, by fate, by fault – the absurde and the drama of the IIWW. In silence, an anonimous population experienced the bloody weight and the deathly breath of the War. No heroes, no warriors, no justice, no reason: just innocents, children, women, olders, youngsters, men.
I started videorecording thoughts and talks of aged people in Villa Iubatti, a village 7km far from Ortona. Villa Iubatti is the community I came from. Villa Iubatti was settled on the Gustav Line, 7km far from Ortona: because every frontier is a line, not just a point.
Civilians.
This year, is the 60th anniversay of Ortona’s battle. A twinning in between Ortona and Stalingrad will be held by authorities and populations.
Villa Iubatti is a place that will never be remembered, simply because “war was somewhere else”. The world is full of Villa Iubatti, also in historical memory, the world is full of places that experience the breath of the war, without being remembered, because information or propaganda doesn’t need them.
Civilians.
Our contemporaneity is experiencing the most turbolent and chaotic moment of the entire human adventure. 90+ conflicts are bleeding our present and killing our future.
In the middle, civilians.
War is always the same, in Villa Iubatti as everywhere,
yesterday, today, tomorrow.
As simple as it gets.
Conventional Medicine-Traditional Medicine: a survey
This survey comes from a simple observation: 30 years of international health cooperation in developing countries almost never succeeded in handing over projects to the local health staff.
After billions of founds dedicated to the construction of new hospitals clynics and health projects, western operators rarely succeed in the handover with local operators.
The reason of this general failure can be found in local, global and specific conditions of every project, but in general therms, the failure is due to the lack of teaching long-term continuity and vision of specialistic medicine to local partners.
In a large parts of the world, traditional medicine occupies a primary role in the care’s offer and research. In Africa, following the WHO, 80% of the population uses traditional medicine as first cure system. In China, traditional medicine is widely used.
This is due, undoubtely, for cultural reasons.
But not only: conventional medicine costs, it is often too expensive for a big part of the population, and too often, it simply does not work effectively. Conventional medicine is good if it is done well, but too often scarcity, methodological and tecnical errors, misundestanding of basical methods and tecniques, invalidate results and effectiveness.
Teaching basic specialistic medicine, as an attempt to improove the capability to work in contexts of scarcity, is the most important concept analised by this survey. Not just building structures: Teaching, as the key concept for the international health cooperation in developing countries.
VIDEO-COMING SOON
Check also this photographic gallery:
http://mariotrave.viewbook.com/album/medicine-a-survey-2012-2013?p=1
The Blue Train dialogues:
“The Blue Train Dialogue” is an attempt to show how contemporary descriptions of Balcan area suffers of the so-colled “Historical Syndrome”, a general sudditancy in recent history, a shame in describing contemporaneity without using the past, and a general incapacity to describe the present and possible outlines of future’s scenario.
“Blue Train dialogues” is structured as a photographic dialogue in between me, photographer (I travelled widely in the Ex Jugoslavia with trains in 2010), and Giovanna Larcinese, Phd researcher in Eastern Europe, who lived 4 years in the area, mostly in Sarajevo.
Railway in Jugoslavia represented the idea of socialist development better than anything else. Tito’s Presidential Blue Train was the symbol of this unity: 33 years after Tito’s death, what about present and future in Balkans, for researchers who attempt to witness and analyse the area? How to describe it? Is it possible to get free from the phantoms of the past, for researchers trying to describe today the complexity of Ex Jugoslavia?
COMING SOON
From 2006 I started exploring Abruzzo’s abandoned railways. More that 200km of dismissed lines just in Chieti’s province (southern Abruzzo), one of the most extensive and best preserved railway’s heritage in Europe.
I discovered stations, bridges, tunnels, electric plants, trains, a monumental fortune, completely abandoned. Thanks to my smartphone and Google Earth, I started geolocalising all the encountered sites, creating a digital archive of all these emergencies, and I started to shoot and describe this patrimonium: Transit-Attuale.
From november 2010 till june 2011, I searched somewhere else railways stories; Romania, Senegal, Mauritanie, Thailand, Cina, Morocco, Sri Lanka, and Ex Jugoslavia: Transit-Atrove. In summer ‘11, I organised several multimedia happening all along the abandoned railway, showing stories I collected abroad, and using abandoned railway infrastructures as exposition areas: Transit-Azione. These events where non-authorised, completely self-organised and self-financed: the aim of these happenings was to give life – also if just for a few hours – to dead but still wonderful and accessible places.
Railway Tunnel- Ortona, Abruzzo, italia from Mario Trave on Vimeo.
Other videos of Transit-Project can be found on my vimeo channel: www.vimeo.com/mariotrave
стан – stan
Check www.mariotrave.tumblr.com for and follow the progress of the work.
Civilians
Ortona a Mare is a sleepy coastal Italian town, a little point in a map at the same latitude of Rome. This town is internationally know as the Italian Stalingrad, as it was the only door-by-door battle of the entire IIWW’s Italian Campaign. In december ‘43 Ortona was the epicenter of an extremely ferocious fight in between Canadians and Germans, as Ortona was the ending (or starting) point of the so-called Gustav Line, a defensive line held by Germans, phisically splitting in two the entire Italian peninsula; in between winter ‘43 and may ‘44 that line became – by chance, by reason, by fate – the Frontier in between Nazis and Allied, Freedom and Slavery, Democracy and Totalitarism, Good and Evil. One line, one border, two sides of the entire history face by face, within walking distance in between.
In the middle, civilians.
civilians-trailer from Mario Trave on Vimeo.
Individuals, families, people, neither fascists nor partisans nor soldiers, just children, women, olders, youngsters, experiencing – by chance, by fate, by fault – the absurde and the drama of the IIWW. In silence, an anonimous population experienced the bloody weight and the deathly breath of the War. No heroes, no warriors, no justice, no reason: just innocents, children, women, olders, youngsters, men.
I started videorecording thoughts and talks of aged people in Villa Iubatti, a village 7km far from Ortona. Villa Iubatti is the community I came from. Villa Iubatti was settled on the Gustav Line, 7km far from Ortona: because every frontier is a line, not just a point.
Civilians.
This year, is the 60th anniversay of Ortona’s battle. A twinning in between Ortona and Stalingrad will be held by authorities and populations.
Villa Iubatti is a place that will never be remembered, simply because “war was somewhere else”. The world is full of Villa Iubatti, also in historical memory, the world is full of places that experience the breath of the war, without being remembered, because information or propaganda doesn’t need them.
Civilians.
Our contemporaneity is experiencing the most turbolent and chaotic moment of the entire human adventure. 90+ conflicts are bleeding our present and killing our future.
In the middle, civilians.
War is always the same, in Villa Iubatti as everywhere,
yesterday, today, tomorrow.
As simple as it gets.
Conventional Medicine-Traditional Medicine: a survey
This survey comes from a simple observation: 30 years of international health cooperation in developing countries almost never succeeded in handing over projects to the local health staff.
After billions of founds dedicated to the construction of new hospitals clynics and health projects, western operators rarely succeed in the handover with local operators.
The reason of this general failure can be found in local, global and specific conditions of every project, but in general therms, the failure is due to the lack of teaching long-term continuity and vision of specialistic medicine to local partners.
In a large parts of the world, traditional medicine occupies a primary role in the care’s offer and research. In Africa, following the WHO, 80% of the population uses traditional medicine as first cure system. In China, traditional medicine is widely used.
This is due, undoubtely, for cultural reasons.
But not only: conventional medicine costs, it is often too expensive for a big part of the population, and too often, it simply does not work effectively. Conventional medicine is good if it is done well, but too often scarcity, methodological and tecnical errors, misundestanding of basical methods and tecniques, invalidate results and effectiveness.
Teaching basic specialistic medicine, as an attempt to improove the capability to work in contexts of scarcity, is the most important concept analised by this survey. Not just building structures: Teaching, as the key concept for the international health cooperation in developing countries.
VIDEO-COMING SOON
Check also this photographic gallery:
http://mariotrave.viewbook.com/album/medicine-a-survey-2012-2013?p=1
The Blue Train dialogues:
“The Blue Train Dialogue” is an attempt to show how contemporary descriptions of Balcan area suffers of the so-colled “Historical Syndrome”, a general sudditancy in recent history, a shame in describing contemporaneity without using the past, and a general incapacity to describe the present and possible outlines of future’s scenario.
“Blue Train dialogues” is structured as a photographic dialogue in between me, photographer (I travelled widely in the Ex Jugoslavia with trains in 2010), and Giovanna Larcinese, Phd researcher in Eastern Europe, who lived 4 years in the area, mostly in Sarajevo.
Railway in Jugoslavia represented the idea of socialist development better than anything else. Tito’s Presidential Blue Train was the symbol of this unity: 33 years after Tito’s death, what about present and future in Balkans, for researchers who attempt to witness and analyse the area? How to describe it? Is it possible to get free from the phantoms of the past, for researchers trying to describe today the complexity of Ex Jugoslavia?
COMING SOON