Multiple Frames
Remarks on the Framing of Borders and Migration
What do we address with the terms frame and framing? What are we talking about? When I get stuck and lost, I turn to Grimm’s German dictionary…
What do we address with the terms frame and framing? What are we talking about? When I get stuck and lost, I turn to Grimm’s German dictionary…
8401 is a video installation that includes a video loop showing images of a building and the streets in front. Depending on the room in which the installation is being shown, there are one or more devices playing sound files. The image — or images — of the video shift slowly but constantly, and they look a bit like a collage made from the snippets of different pictures. […]
I would like to begin this essay by analyzing the simple and somewhat whimsical question I offer as a title for this prologue. To this end, let me introduce myself: I was born in Sicily, thereby in Italy, to native Italian parents; I do not belong to a decolonized territory, nor am I a member of any minority group or ethnicity. I am a legal scholar, and a full professor at Parma University. I cannot express any serious complaints about my ability to ‘live’ my culture and — flaw of flaws — […]