Coexisting Through Play. The Experience of Stalker/Nomadic Observatory at Campo Boario

Abstract

The aim of this contribution is to retrace some of the shared practices which, between 1999 and 2001, marked the experience of a collective subject called Stalker/Osservatorio Nomade at Campo Boario in Rome. Particularly, the playful-relational modalities implemented by Stalker/Osservatorio Nomade proved capable of reconfiguring territories and human landscapes of marginality relative to the Kurdish refugee community and the nomadic Roma-Kalderasha community. Through the exploration and intervention in these territories, the peculiar relevance assigned to playing makes these experiences particularly significant in the sphere of artistic practices carried out in the public sphere. From the Carta di Non Identità; to the Pranzo Boario; to the Transborderline, the GloballGame and finally the Tappeto Volante, the main aim pursued by Stalker/Osservatorio Nomade is therefore to have tried in these ‘games’ to coexist in uncertain, indeterminate and particularly complex ‘territories’ and to have been able to delineate open public spaces in continuous becoming.