Contact-zones is a long-term project curated by Vanessa Vozzo and Laura Romano around the concept of “border/frontier” as a geographical limit, political space, governing device on bodies and territories. The physical land and sea border between states is fragmented and reconfigured within cities, producing a dialogue between new arrivals and settled inhabitants. We are the result of displacements, migrations and movements but the new migratory flows seem to put urban spaces in crisis.
The project focuses on city contact-zones conceiving them as new spaces for possible interactions.
The project makes use of locative-media and interactive-media and space perception studies, in line with Kevin Lynch “Image of the city” and a psychogeographic approach, to create art installations, performances, routes and tracing. The audiovisual content follows a narrative and/or a counter-narrative model.

The aim is to reconfigure the contact-zones of the cities through an embodiment process, which makes the urban space re-perceived by its visitors.