Walks, Exhibitions and a Film Program on a Liminal Zone in the Suburbs of Trieste
The Slovenska kinoteka – Filmski muzej, Ljubljana (SI),
University of Applied Arts, Vienna (A) and
Ar.T.E. – architettura per la trasformazione ecosostenibile, Trieste (IT),
together with
აბრეშუმის სახელმწიფო მუზეუმი / State Silk Museum, Tbilisi (GE)
and Cultural Inventory ETS, Trieste / Roma (IT)
as Associate Partners
and the Department of Anthropology / Columbia University, NY (US)
as Cooperation Partner
have applied for a cooperation project at the Creative Europe Call `26.
Project runtime is planned from 07/27 until 12/28.
Clanz is intended to host visiting researchers and resident artists, as well as provide space for workshops, presentations etc.
Liminal Grounds
Reclaiming Urban Peripheries through Art, Ecology, and Collective Memory
LIMINAL GROUNDS is an investigation conducted through artistic, landscape, and urban research, focusing on a threshold area in Trieste/Trst and relating these investigations to geographically and conceptually broader contexts, which will be articulated in various forms of artistic expression.
Along one of the city’s torrenti—streams that form a cross-section of Trieste/Trst’s steep coastal topography—the project traces a sequence of sites and typological articulations: downhill from the Karst plateau, from forested and semi-rural terraced landscapes, through suburban and infrastructural areas, to the urban fabric and into the harbour basin. It not only addresses massive historical territorial interventions and the current pressures of commodifying urban development, but also engages with civic movements and legal struggles, best and worst practices, and utopian projections in urban development. These serve both as lenses of observation and as points of departure for artistic intervention, opening up perspectives for the post-industrial transformation of a shrinking city.
The project is carried out by interdisciplinary partner institutions from countries that have historically shaped the contested region. This constellation aims at strengthening dialogue on shared cultural heritage and future perspectives, but, in awareness of the increasing relevance of much wider contexts, is also actively involving diverse voices. LIMINAL GROUNDS is implemented through research and fieldwork, participatory formats, residencies, and the involvement of local and international expertise. The project results in a series of documentary and artistic exhibitions with discursive and mediation programmes, as well as a transferable film programme, including commissioned foto/film essays that reflect the process.