Stories from the Edge

What happens in holiday resorts outside the high season, when the tourists—with all their expectations, fantasies and demands—leave?

‘Stories from the Edge’ sets out to explore the interactions of this fictive layer with the parallel existing culture. Where is the boundary between reality and fabrication? Like the coastline, this is an interstitial space on the edge.

This project was a collaboration with Graz-based artists Kate Howlett-Jones and Nayari Castillo. Funding was provided by the State of Styria, Austria.

During the course of travels along the northern Adriatic coast, the artists gathered stories and impressions. In each stopping place in three countries, which included Italy, Slovenia and Croatia, collaborations were formed with local artists. During the stops an itinerant “osmizza” (or local eating place) was set up in order to offer hospitality and invite interaction with local inhabitants, thus conflating the roles of guest and host. The local participants were invited to share food and stories. The ensuing results of this endeavor were then exhibited in Trieste, Italy, Graz, Austria and Rijeka, Croatia.

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