European Edinost
On 11 March 2017, artist Alessio Mazzaro reopened the Edinost, a Slovenian newspaper printed in Trieste (Italy) that gave voice to the first anti-fascist movement in Europe. It was shut down by fascists in 1928. He reopened it as a multicultural space of dialogue and collective writing journal that he directs to investigate borders, fascisms, politics of memory and the role of arts in re-discussing unresolved conflicts. Then, as part of the Courageous Citizens 2018 Research and Development grant by the European Cultural Foundation, the Edinost has become a free journal and laboratory in continuous redefinition with contributions from artists, academics and citizens. A magazine that keeps posing questions, to generate critical thinking at European level. But also a space where cultural and economic migrants can expose acceptance problems. The EE -European Edinost- hopes to create a missing narrative that will give more humanity to the ones about migration proposed by populism. It will make us understand how others feel treated.
The EE is conceived as a “series” of four numbers. Up now two has been published:
1. Update the Partisan.
(art/activism, radical thinking and art institutions, dialogue and non-violent practices against daily fascisms)
2. What is home? (European citizenship, transient identities)
The second issue is been developed during a workshop delivered to the students of the MA in Euroculture at Gottingen University (DE), hosted by the Centre for Global Migration Studies.
If you are an institution, foundation, cultural centre and would like to receive some copies of the printed version becoming part of the distribution net, write to edinostrivista@gmail.com
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how can we confront the causes of fascism to prevent the born of new recruits?
In a global world of refugees and economic & cultural migrants, inclusion and acceptance problems are at the base of daily discriminations. The new comings are difficulty accepted for what they are, we want them to be similar to us, to think like us. We protect ourself behind the fact that if they “have chosen” to come to our place, they need to adapt to it, to us, especially if they are cultural & economics migrants, because they can otherwise go back to their birth country. I was a cultural and economic migrants and I want to give voice to the quotidian of this “category” on which are based the new rising European nationalisms. We can’t fight the fascisms if we don’t dialogue and consider inclusiveness at a daily level.
Commemorations and politics of memory, have become too often occasions to foster fractures and resentments that are fertile soil for Fascism. Ideologies can be a reassurance in a state of social, economical and psychological stress: a set of “simple” rules that can be quickly apply avoiding thinking and saving time; parameters to classify persons and events accommodating our tendency to categorize between right and wrong, without an attempt to understand the “complexity” , the reasons and point of view of the others.
Alessio Mazzaro