CONFINI
The project consists of two video installations that investigate the theme of borders and contemporary migration, exploring the human drama through data, testimonies, and a visual-audio rhythm.
Map of Losses
A map of the world gradually comes to life, indicating the places where, from 2014 to 2025, thousands of migrants lost their lives attempting to cross geographical and political borders: the Mediterranean, the border between Mexico and the United States, the Sahara Desert, the Bay of Bengal, and others. Each marked point is accompanied by a sheet providing the incident data: date, location, number of victims, origin, and destination. The installation builds a visual archive of the migratory tragedy, a geography of silence that grows over time. A minimal soundtrack acts as a visual metronome: it marks the passage of time and the progressive appearance of data on the map, accentuating the inexorable and repetitive nature of the news.
Overlapping Voices
In this second installation, the testimonies of surviving migrants appear on the screen in text form. Each sentence is repeated multiple times in random positions, forming visual blocks—abstract paintings composed of overlapping words. The result is a layering of memories that lose their individuality to merge into a collective presence, dense and visually powerful. The minimal sound does not accompany but structures: it punctuates the appearance and reiteration of the words, guiding the rhythm with which the painting forms and expands, like a mechanical breath or a regular heartbeat.
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Data
The data used in the "Map of Losses" were extracted from:
"IOM's Missing Migrants Project" - https://missingmigrants.iom.int
(Please note that not all items are present in the "Map of Loses" installation)
Testimonies
The testimonies appearing in "Overlapping Voices" are from:
- Interviews conducted by the author as part of "Sabbia" social theater project (created by Riccardo Vannuccini - Artestudio), with asylum seekers at the Castelnuovo di Porto reception center (CARA)
- Interviews conducted aboard the Geo Barents (search and rescue vessel - Doctors Without Borders) - https://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/stories-survival-mediterranean-migration-route
- Interviews conducted aboard the Life Support (search and rescue vessel - Emergency) - https://www.emergency.it/storie-migranti-dalla-life-support/
The author used MAX software (Cycling'74) to program the audio/visual processing of the data and testimonies
October 23-25, 2025, as part of the RAW - RomeArtWeek event at SuonousLab - Rome
December 28, 2025, at the "Stories of Guitars and Borders" event, at the Francesco Sandrelli Association - Camucia (AR)
WARS (2010 - 2026)
The work is a generative multimedia installation that transforms an archive of war data into a raw and inescapable sensorial experience. By mapping sixteen years of real conflicts—from 2010 to the most recent news of April 2026—the installation questions the viewer about the cyclical nature of violence, the market that fuels it, and the resulting human consequences.
The experience unfolds through a dual visual narrative: News and the economy: A relentless flow of data (year, location, direct/indirect deaths,
migration flows and arms flows) documenting global geopolitical reality. Flashes: A second screen entirely dedicated to color: the color saturation reacts in real time to sound intensity: from black (silence), to shades of red (varying levels of noise),
to the white of the most violent explosions.
The sonic chaos is constructed from a web of continuous electronic sounds combined with voices and explosions: the voices of politicians and their official statements are overwhelmed by the sound
of explosions and the noises of war.
Quantitative data on fatalities and the geolocation of clashes are derived from the ACLED (Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project) databases.
Descriptions of individual incidents are drawn from contemporary newspaper reports and agency dispatches.
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April 24, 2026, as part of the RAW for Peace festival
at SuonousLab
Via B. Franklin 3, Rome
