If there is a unifying feature in the multiformity of contemporary cultures, it is that of trespassing and contamination.
Ai Confini dell’Arte is a cross-disciplinary project, created by Margine Operativo, which moves along the borderlines between different contemporary artistic codes – performing art, comics, visual art, street photography, music, video – and acts in the areas of proximity between art and life, creating continuous encroachments. Ai confini dell’ Arte is attentive to experimental processes of creation and to “open” artistic productions capable of relating to the spatial and human contexts with which it comes into contact.
It aims at experimenting how “different subjects/objects” – artists, spaces, young people, publics, citizens – by meeting and combining with each other – through artistic residencies and workshops – can find points of contact and create new art works/performances and build cross-disciplinary, multiple and participatory artistic events on the theme of present and future borders/breaches.
Cross-disciplinarity, cross-breeding, borders, trespassing are the key words/themes/concepts around which Ai confini dell’Arte revolves.
Ai confini dell’Arte is a project that brings together artists from the contemporary scene to produce performances and works dedicated to the place and context in which they take place, through artistic residencies and workshops. It is a project that enters into a synergistic relationship with the “human fabric” with which it comes into contact, creating design and narrative interactions with the spaces and territories it inhabits.
Ai Confini dell’Arte is conceived and organised by Margine Operativo, under the artistic direction of Alessandra Ferraro and Pako Graziani. It was held in Rome from 2017 to 2026 ( = 10 edition) involving different spaces of the Municipality of Rome. It is supported by ROMA CAPITALE in the framework of “Contemporaneamente Roma”, “Culture in Movimento”. “Roma Creativa. Forme del Contemporaneo”. In 2020 it proposed, due to the emergency Covid 19, an edition in the digital space.
Ai Confini dell’Arte 2026 // performative crossovers // 10th edition // takes place from November 13 to December 13, 2026, in various venues throughout the city of Rome—including indoor spaces and urban settings in the neighborhoods of Torpignattara, Quadraro, and Cinecittà—through a program dedicated to contemporary performing arts that features five free workshops, three artist residencies, urban performances, talks and meetings. It offers workshop, in-depth study, and artistic production programs that reflect on and explore— in both form and content—the plural concept of “borders / boundary crossings” and the possible relationships, interactions, and expansions between artistic practices and public spaces / urban spaces.
Ai Confini dell’Arte was born as a further step of the artistic group Margine Operativo’s path of reflection/research on the possible combinations between contemporary artistic codes, unconventional spaces and publics. Margine Operativo has been carrying out this research for years with its theatre and video productions, with the multidisciplinary festival Attraversamenti Multipli – which since 2001 has been held in particular locations in the metropolis of Rome – and with the international project Contact Zones_performing arts in urban spaces, supported for two editions by Europa Creativa.
