In Alfabeto Fonético Aplicado II: pavimentaram a Panamericana e tudo o que vejo é a falha de Darien [Applied Phonetic Alphabet II: They paved a Panamericana and all I can see is the Darien Gap] (2010), Zaccagnini appropriates the International Radiophony Spelling Alphabet, known as the NATO Phonetic Alphabet, currently used by aviation companies and ham radio operators around the planet.
The work proposes a new alphabet for spelling based on words whose meaning and spelling is international, but whose pronunciation is adapted to various languages and to the sounds of each country. In the first edition of the work, presented at ARCO 2010, Zaccagnini appropriated the Panama Canal’s motto, “Dividing the land to unite the World.”
The current version, which occupies the gallery’s façade, perverts the previous one, pointing to a world that is not so unified, since the Pan-American Highway, which should link Patagonia to Alaska, still has an 87-km gap between Colombia and Panama (the Darien Gap), which belies the concept of unification that nourished the creation of the Panama Canal.
In Alfabeto Fonético Aplicado II: pavimentaram a Panamericana e tudo o que vejo é a falha de Darien [Applied Phonetic Alphabet II: They paved a Panamericana and all I can see is the Darien Gap] (2010), Zaccagnini appropriates the International Radiophony Spelling Alphabet, known as the NATO Phonetic Alphabet, currently used by aviation companies and ham radio operators around the planet.
The work proposes a new alphabet for spelling based on words whose meaning and spelling is international, but whose pronunciation is adapted to various languages and to the sounds of each country. In the first edition of the work, presented at ARCO 2010, Zaccagnini appropriated the Panama Canal’s motto, “Dividing the land to unite the World.”
The current version, which occupies the gallery’s façade, perverts the previous one, pointing to a world that is not so unified, since the Pan-American Highway, which should link Patagonia to Alaska, still has an 87-km gap between Colombia and Panama (the Darien Gap), which belies the concept of unification that nourished the creation of the Panama Canal.
