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Anil’s Ghost
Literary work - romanzo
Author
Michael Ondaatje
Anno
2000
Tags
Sri Lanka migrazione Canada
Ondaatje’s fourth novel narrates the story of a forensic anthropologist that returns in hermotherland, Sri Lanka, in the Nineties, during the civil war, in order to investigate on a seriesof political murders. The protagonist lives a conflict between his scientific objectivity, thepolitical pressions and the emotions provoked by the return in Sri Lanka. Anil has […]
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Aulò
Audiovisual work - docufilm
Directors
Simone Brioni , Ermanno Guida , Graziano Chiscuzzu
Anno
2012
Tags
migrazione Eritrea
Who are you? In an attempt to give an answer to this question, Ribka Sibhatu, Italian writer and essayist of Eritrean origin, presents the history of her homeland in her current city, Rome. In her imaginary trip backwards through her memories, she is accompanied by a young Italian man, who shares her same interest in […]
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Back Home
Artistic work - photography, painting
Author
Adrian Paci
Tags
migrazione
Back Home is a series of photographs portraying families migrating from their country of origin.Each photograph depicts a portrait of one family. The background of the photographs depictspaintings by the artist that showcase the interiors and exteriors of houses in Albania, the country oforigin for the families featured in the portraits. The artist captured photographs […]
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Centro di permanenza temporanea
Audiovisual work
Director
Adrian Paci
Anno
2007
Tags
migration video-art
In a series of highly representative shots, an assortment of individuals of various nationality proceeds in line on a huge desolate airstrip. The group prepares with order, silently, towards a staircase, of the type used as an access interlude in airplanes. However, the aircraft is not present and the staircase leads to an empty space, […]
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Clara
Artistic work - installation
Author
Rossella Biscotti
Anno
2016
Tags
migration colonialism
The work is inspired by the story of an Indian rhinoceros called Clara, imported in 1740 by a command ship of the Dutch East India Company. The animal was the protagonist of a tour lasting sixteen years, potracted through various European cities, becoming in spite of itself a sort of exotic tourist attraction with which […]
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Green, White, Red, (Mediterranean Blue)
Artistic work - installation, video, painting
Author
Fiamma Montezemolo
Anno
2018
Tags
migrazione monocromo
Green, White, Red (Mediterranean Blue) is an intermediate installation that combines the artist’sresearch on abstraction with themes of nationalism and migration, particularly those related to theMediterranean borders. The artwork comprises three monochromatic paintings that replicate thecolors of the Italian flag. A looping video image of the Mediterranean Sea is projected onto thecentral white painting. The […]
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Il Muro Occidentale o del Pianto
Artistic work - installazione
Author
Fabio Mauri
Anno
1993
Tags
migrazione assemblaggio
The Western Wall, also known as the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem, is the remaining wall of theTemple of Solomon. In the artwork titled The Western or Wailing Wall, Fabio Mauri reconstructsit using suitcases of varying materials and sizes. By utilizing a pile of suitcases, the artist explores arange of migration phenomena, territorial divisions, exile, and […]
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Il sorriso della scimmia
Performative work
Author
Nalini Vidoolah Mootoosamy
Director
Alberto Cavalleri
Anno
2020
Tags
migrazione multilinguismo
A family of Indo-Mauritian immigrants is dealing with a crucial event: the Father must go to the Municipality to obtain Italian citizenship. But this festive occasion soon turns into the risk, full of tension, of a social examination that puts the entire family on the ropes. In particular, Raoul, the son, is torn between the […]
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L’albero dei destini sospesi
Audiovisual work - film
Director
Rachid Benhadj
Anno
1997
Tags
migrazione
L'albero dei destini sospesi is the first Italian film to show an interracial relationship between an Italian woman and a North African man. Samir returns to Morocco accompanied by his beloved Maria; the journey will serve them to accept the cultural diversity that exists, in a process of creolization of identity that will lead to […]
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La mia casa è dove sono
Literary work - romanzo
Author
Igiaba Scego
Anno
2010
Tags
postcoloniale migrazione
Winner of 2011 Mondello Prize. Scego structures his autobiography through a comparativemapping of Rome and Mogadiscio. The narration stages the contradictions inherent to theremotion of Italian colonial past and of contemporary racism. The author proposes a model oftranscultural identity, capable to hybrid Italian and Somali culture, maintaining theconsciousness of the power relationships that structure contemporary […]
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La nave fantasma
Performative work
Author
Giovanni Maria Bellu
Director
Renato Sarti
Anno
2005
Tags
naufragio migrazione
On 25 December 1996, off the coast of Sicily, a small boat sunk loaded with migrants from India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. The victims were two hundred and eighty-three: it was the biggest naval tragedy in the Mediterranean since the end of the Second World War - a record tragically surpassed in recent years. Despite […]
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Le Havre
Audiovisual work - film
Director
Aki Kaurismäki
Anno
2011
Tags
migrazione
The movie tells the story of a shoe shiner who tries to save an African boy who has illegally immigrated in the French port of Le Havre. The protagonist, Marcel Marx, is a former bohemian writer turned shoe shiner, married to Arletty. The two elderly spouses lead a modest life in a poor neighborhood of Le Havre. One […]
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Mi chiamo Aram e sono italiano
Performative work
Author
Aram Kian
Director
Gabriele Vacis
Anno
2014
Tags
Iran migrazione
Aram Kian, Roman mother, Iranian father, Italian citizenship, brings to the stage the memories of his childhood and adolescence spent in Sinago, an imaginary town on the outskirts of Milan and a symbol of the suburbs of northern Italy. The most salient events of the 1980s and 1990s form the background to his personal stories. […]
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Oltre i bordi
Audiovisual work - docufilm
Directors
Simone Brioni , Matteo Sandrini
Anno
2023
Tags
migrazione
The chance discovery of a box of photographs taken in Italian East Africa in the 1930s by a distant relative raises more general considerations on the imperial gaze, on its construction of the Other and elsewhere, and on its legacy. In a narrative that intertwines personal reflections and collective history, shared by colonizers and colonized, […]
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Quichotte
Literary work - romanzo
Author
Salman Rushdie
Anno
2019
Tags
migrazione riscrittura
Inspired by the Cervantes classic, Sam DuChamp, mediocre writer of spy thrillers, createsQuichotte, a courtly, addled salesman obsessed with television who falls in impossible lovewith a TV star. Together with his (imaginary) son Sancho, Quichotte sets off on a picaresque quest across America to prove worthy of her hand, gallantly braving the tragicomic perils ofan […]
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Racconti romani
Literary work
Author
Jhumpa Lahiri
Anno
2022
Tags
migrazione traduzione Roma
Inspired by Italian Twentieth Century novel (Moravia above all), Lahiri describes, throughnine stories of different lengths, a contradictory Rome. The eternal city redefines itselftransforming over generations in a transcultural hybrid of strangers and romans sharing thesame “out of place” feeling. The style, tending to metaphysics and epiphanic registers,translates the cultural uprooting in an existential foreign […]
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Sartorius. Le roman des Batoutos.
Literary work - romanzo
Author
Édouard Glissant
Anno
1999
Tags
creolizzazione migrazione Letteratura-mondo
In Sartorius (his seventh novel) Glissant invents a people, the Batoutos. They are from animaginary archipelago in the hearth of the African continent, which is “invisible as nation”.They have departed a long time ago from their territory in order to discover the world, in theresearch of Éléné!, an utopia which resume the spaces and times […]
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Scontro di civiltà per un ascensore a Piazza Vittorio
Literary work - romanzo
Author
Amara Lakhous
Anno
2012
Tags
migrazione multilinguismo traduzione
Lakhous hybrids the crime novel and the Italian-style comedy to stage the stereotypes and theracism in contemporary Italy. Amedeo, an Algerian immigrated in Rome and integrated in thecommunity of Piazza Vittorio, the capital’s multicultural center, is accused of murder. Thepolyphonic narration wants to depict the transculturality of contemporary Italy and of culturalidentities. The novel is […]
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Sono persone 8.8.1991
Artistic work - installation, sculpture
Author
Jasmine Pignatelli
Anno
2019
Tags
migrazione
The artwork Sono persone 8.8.1991 conveys the phrase spoken by Mayor Enrico Dalfino in 1991when addressing 20,000 Albanian refugees upon the arrival of the ship Vlora in the port of Barithrough Morse code: “They are people, desperate people. They have only us, they cannot be sentback”. Jasmine Pignatelli’s research on modular elements, geometry, and light, […]
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Stadium
Artistic work - installation art/ performance
Author
Maurizio Cattelan
Anno
1991
Tags
migration discrimination
Presented for the first time in 1991 at the Gallery of Modern Art in Bologna, the performance stages a foosball table over six meters long, in which two teams compete composed of 22 participants each. The first is made up of white skinned players and the other of Senegalese workers who immigrated to Veneto. Cattelan’s […]
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Supplici a Portopalo
Performative work
Author
Vincenzo Pirrotta, Gabriele Vacis
Director
Gabriele Vacis
Anno
2009
Tags
naufragio migrazione
Portopalo is a border town on the extreme tip of Sicily, a small town that experiences the reality of landings and the problem of reception every day, in which a small community of fishermen and farmers is forced to contend with ambiguous legislation, to dealing with restrictive rules that are not part of the traditional […]
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Telemachus – Should I Stay or Should I Go?
Performative work
Authors
Anestis Azas , Prodromos Tsinikoris
Directors
Anestis Azas , Prodromos Tsinikoris
Anno
2013
Tags
migrazione
The suitors have dug their hands into the pockets of a devastated Greece. Odysseus is missing; and as for his son, the young Telemachus, the economic crisis afflicting Athens in the middle of winter confronts him with that age-old but timely question: should he stay or should he go? Should he wait for the return […]
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The Fourth Road. Mogadiscio, Italy
Audiovisual work - docufilm
Directors
Simone Brioni , Ermanno Guida , Graziano Chiscuzzu
Anno
2012
Tags
migrazione somalia
Kaha Mohamed Aden, an Italian writer of Somali origin, narrates her memories of Mogadishu, her hometown, and reconstructs its story in Pavia, where she currently lives. The capital city of Somalia is divided into five main streets, with each corresponding to different historical periods. The ‘fourth road’ symbolizes the actuality of civil war, but also […]
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The Journey
Artistic work - installation, performance
Author
Rossella Biscotti
Anno
2010
Tags
migrazione
In 2010, Rossella Biscotti was granted a 20-ton block of Carrara marble from the iconic quarry inCarrara, which was once used by Michelangelo. In May 2021, the block of marble was extractedand loaded onto a boat that sailed a symbolic route from Italy to Malta, Tunisia, and Libya. At theend of this journey, the block […]
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The Satanic Verses
Literary work - romanzo
Author
Salman Rushdie
Anno
1988
Tags
migrazione multilinguismo traduzione
The Satanic Verses has been one of the major editorial cases of the Twentieth century, mainlybecause of the fatwa held by the then Iran ayatollah’s Khomeini, which has forced the author to live under police protection until 2012. This has also vitiated the book’s reception: The Satanic Verses has been read as a Quran’s parody. […]
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Tout-monde
Literary work - romanzo
Author
Édouard Glissant
Anno
1993
Tags
creolizzazione migrazione Letteratura-mondo
In Tout-monde Glissant stages contemporary world’s creolization: the clash, the encounter, the hybridization between different languages and cultures. The stories of different characters (including the alter ego Mathieu Béluse and the same Glissant) characterized by wandering and migration, encounter themselves in spatial, stylistic and thematic common places. The déparleur (a new type of author which […]
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We the people
Artistic work - sculpture
Author
Dahn Vo
Anno
2014
Tags
migration
Raised in a family that fled Vietnam to settle in Denmark, Danh Vo explores how cultural values, conflicts and traumas are passed down through generations, combining his personal experiences with historical and political events. The artist integrates in his artistic practice the challenges related to cultural assimilation and the political circumstances they have influenced its […]
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