what

On moving border is a project realized in a windy area crossing Italy, Slovenia and Croatia. For historical reason, this area is known as “moving border”, or “shifting boundary”.

The area is made up of particularisms with a complex plurilingualism system, but in spite of the individual components, it has always presented a specific cultural identity, as result of historical ties of social and economic interdependence that had connected its parts despite the diversity.

The project explores what it means living today in this condition. In a situation that now appears again compromised and far from resolved.

how

The complexity of this particular situation has determined the structure of the project: it is an ongoing project, structured in chapters.

This web space collects the flow of research through this reality. But the project has been designed for chapters, in order to be able to deepen the various issues by exploring these territories and meeting those who live there.

The Lasciapassare was a special permit for passing of small border crossing points between Italy and ex-Yugoslavia, that survived until 2007 when Slovenia was entered in Shengen area. [Below, the frontispiece of my document written in three languages, valid until 2007.]

But “Lascia passare” in italian languages means “let go”. Let go the past, the difficulties, the people, and go on. The landscape don’t have boundaries, but the people live the struggle for belonging in a political scene in constant motion.