“Sviluppo Parallelo” exists in two complementary forms: the exhibition curated by Noah Stolz in the context of the Stella Maris research platform has a companion piece the programme Freundeskreise Circoli degli amici, conceived by Radio Tramontana, with performances, concerts and discussions broadcast live on laptopradio.org.

Stella Maris is an interdisciplinary and constantly expanding archive which investigates the transalpine identity and grants it visibility. With the archive Stella Maris explores areas of anthropological interest in which the boundaries of national and also of institutional identities blur to the point of abstraction. One of the thought processes of this changing, heterogeneous investigation is the “Italianità” of the Italian population in Switzerland, seen as the consolidation, integration and dissolution of a feeling of community, but also of belonging in a context of emigration. Stella Maris therefore proposes bringing together and stimulating all the voices, images and also the spirits of the past, fragments, feelings of fear, anxiety and outrage.

“Sviluppo Parallelo” is inspired by the story of the two exhibitions by Jean Christophe Ammann, but also by some accompanying anecdotes which form the ideal platform to investigate the boundaries between art, representation, political commitment and the construction of identity.