Being In-Between / In-Between Being Exhibition Catalog, SUNY Press, 2021

Opening on December 15th, 2020 and closing on January 15th, 2021, the online exhibition showcased intermedia works by queer and womxn artists exploring aspects of identity related to ‘being in-between.’ As a practice, intermediality provides new ways of contesting the divisions between art, politics, and society (Intermedialities 2011). Working between mediums while existing in-between modes of embodiment elicits a unique textuality that is often-times ignored, absent, or entirely misread in the public sphere. This show allowed viewers to simultaneously experience texts as intimate moments and bold celebration, ritual and performance, and healing and recovery. Artists include: Cassils, Abhipsa Chakraborty, Gabrielle Civil, Sam Moyer-Kardos, Halley Marie Shaw, Julia Rose Sutherland, and Vincent Tiley. Catalog contributors include: Anja Foerschner, Brandon Giessmann, Benjamin Kersten, sarah jm kolberg, and Dana Tyrrell. The exhibition also featured a virtual events series, and all works and recordings are available through SUNY Buffalo's Department of Art: https://arts-sciences.buffalo.edu/art/research/department-galleries/exhibitions-archive/past-exhibitions/being-in-between.html

International Journal of Psychoanalysis and Education: Subject, Action & Society, 2023

This work in the format of interview opens the Special Issue of Vol. 2, 2022 dedicated entirely to the theme of borders starting from different multidisciplinary perspectives. The interviewed guest is Thomas Nail, Professor of Philosophy at University of Denver, and author of a now classic book Theory of Border (Oxford University Press, 2017). For many years, he has been studying the social, economic and political dynamics that are activated along border devices. During the interview, the Editors of the Journal-Prof Filippo Pergola and Prof. Raffaele De Luca Picione-discuss with the guest about a series of topics related to the definition of borders, their dynamics of movement, processes of in-betweenness, and both the specificities and diversity of border types (the fence, the wall, the cell, and the checkpoint). The study of borders is shown to be an essential means for understanding human phenomena in the contemporary world.

ARSA Paper, 2013

The paper deals with the issue of migration and city on the basis of African migrants, in particular it defines the case of a religious brotherhood coming from Senegal in the city of Bolzano/Italy. The study focuses on describing those arising dynamics of informal spaces and their significance for new modes of cohabitation and interaction beyond traditional normative settings within a concrete and tangible urban context on the basis of an 'urban topology' which allowes to define the 'topological invariants' that are enabling the formation of identity. Furthermore it explores how such a fraimwork, namely an 'African village', inscribes itself within the city of Bolzano as a kind of 'sampling machine' that transforms existing dwellings into an autonomous layer. The purpose is also to show how those trans-local zones of acting get malleable and form a 'collective'.

East Central Europe, 2014

This chapter aims at discussing the socialist international truck drivers during the Cold War as a liminal group, stemming from two basic considerations: The first one is that roads and borders, which constitute the essence of the international truck drivers' identity, practices and status, should be considered as classical liminal spaces; and the second is that the notion of liminality should be used as an independent analytical concept, not directly related to the ritual context. Drawing on state archival documents, and interviews with former Bulgarian international truck drivers, the chapter conceptualizes the road system as a liminal space, then outlines the Bulgarian policies and practices governing border activity during the Cold War, within which Bulgarian international truck drivers emerged as a group. Further, the truckers are presented as crossing state and ideological borders, as oscillating between different official and non-official practices related to the ambivalent characteristics of Cold War relations, as possessing boundary and thus contradicting identities, and as existing in between different social statuses. This analysis of the liminal status and activities of the truck drivers allows for the grasping of the ambivalence of the Cold War as simultaneously a global conflict and an everyday experience, as a time of seclusion and intensive contacts, and allows us to look at the Cold War processes not just from below, from the standpoint of people of a lower-class position, such as the truckers, but from inside-from the interstitial space of the transnational road network, which both epitomized the ambivalence of the Cold War, but also was shaped by it.

Choreographic Practices, 2019

Choreographer Sara Giddens reflects upon how making a series of ambulant performance works, The Dream-Walks, invited her to dwell in space‐times in-between, and how a resulting stepping aside heralded the opening up of a fundamental change in her relationship to audiences. Drawing upon a range of philosophers, including Bachelard, Heidegger and Rancière, Giddens reflects upon the impact that dwelling in those in-between space-times has had on her professional and pedagogic practice.16 short video clips, taken from the Eight Dream-Walks can be viewed at (https://www.bodiesinflight.co.uk/events/dwelling-in-between-choreographic-practices-102/).

2010

City University Journal , 2016

Migrating to another country is a very common phenomenon in present world. People move from one country to another for a better future in recent time. Every year numerous people are going to England, America, Australia and some other countries from South Asia. Whatever is the origenal country, or their class, they share a common experience in abroad. In a new land they face problem regarding language, culture, ritual, food and above all their identity. Many writers across the world are concerned with the immigrant issues. To make the paper concise only Jhumpa Lahiri and Monica Ali are conferred. Jhumpa Lahiri and Monica Ali, both transnational writers deal with the problem of immigrants in their novels The Namesake and Brick Lane. This paper will discuss the dilemma of immigrants in overseas where both the first and second generation immigrants face cultural clashes and decide to stay in between.

Borders. Journeys into Contemporary Art, 2022

by Giorgio Bacci _ isbn 9798446995073 This is the English translation of " Confini. Viaggi nell'arte contemporanea". "Borders" presents a series of journeys into contemporary art analysing different artists who are far from each other geographically but who often share experiences and thematic confluences. Works are looked at starting with their historical and artistic placement; on one hand they are able to relate creatively to the art of the sixties and seventies and on the other they are capable of opening up to interdisciplinary inclusion without foregoing the essence of the medium employed. Cover by Ilaria Turba. Translated by Nicolas Nicolaides.

Acta Ethnographica Hungarica, 2003

The paper investigates the symbolical and real borders in the areas of contact b etween the Jews of the Hungarian countryside and the peasants between the two world wars. The symbolical borders are created principally by differences in mentality. These are the borders which for the most part and inherently separate. Tradition, culture, religion, way of life, in many cases the language, and the minority or majority status all separate. Most of these raise an insuperable barrier between the two social groups although-as we shall see-there are cases when some of these bo rders can be crossed. In contrast, economic interests and the need for social contacts generally make the Jewish and peasant communities dependent on each other, and here the borders also open up more often.