Maria Iorio

Starting with the memory of a song hummed in a rainy night, Chronicles of That Time investigates the shifting identity of the Mediterranean; from ‘the shared sea’, unifying the cultural diversity of Africa and Europe, to closed borders.

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Appunti del passaggio uncovers a counter-history of the “economic miracle” as it traces the trajectories of people on the move between southern Italy and Switzerland at the turn of the 1960s–1970s. Drawing on their accounts, these notes on the passage expose the harsh labor conditions imposed on migrant workers and how they faced widespread discrimination and xenophobia. In a rationale of biopolitical control, their bodies were subjected to intrusive health inspections at the border; officially justified by fears of contagion, “sanitary risks” became a de facto strategy for controlling immigration and legitimizing borders and their violence.

If water could speak and we could understand it, we would hear how absurd it finds the categorisations of living things created by human science, the lack of respect for the territory of others, the desire to colonise...