Exhibition design for EUROZINE - 26th European Meeting 2-6 October 2014 | Annalisa Simone

Perdita di equilibrio (interiore)
 Una parentesi temporale
 Una sospensione
 Un altrove in questo luogo..
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Loss of (interior) balance
 A temporal parenthesis
 A suspension
 An elsewhere in this place..

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/// translated by
 Bianca Maria Bruno - Lettera Internazionale
/// photographer
 Mattia Ramunni - Too Path Men
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Eurozine is a network of European cultural journals, linking up more than 80 partner journals and just as many associated magazines and institutions from nearly all European countries.

Under the heading "Law and Border – House Search in Fortress Europe", the Eurozine conference addressed the EU's refugee and immigration policies. More than 100 editors and intellectuals from Europe's leading cultural journals participated in the event.

http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2014-11-05-newsitem-en.html
<< On 3 October 2013, over 360 men, women and children drowned off the coast of Lampedusa attempting to enter Europe. At the time, Italian president Giorgio Napolitano lamented the "slaughter of innocents" and the tragic event – one of many at the gates of Fortress Europe – triggered a new European debate on laws, borders and human rights and exactly one year after the Lampedusa shipwreck, the conference continued this debate, drawing on the fact that Eurozine is a transnational network, representing views and experiences from all parts of Europe – and beyond. 

Here, as in all the conference venues, interventions by creative director Annalisa Simone provided a connective tissue between and around the main conference content: in this case, in the form of pallets used for transporting goods, piled up to create the stage on which ensuing conference sessions took place. Without a word having been said, the structure immediately suggested that the free movement of goods did not necessarily sit comfortably with the free movement of people, as the piles of pallets took on the form not just of a stage but of a makeshift barrier too >>.