The Borderless Words

List of works:
– Sandrine Bessora (text) & Barroux (illustrations): Alpha: Abidjan – Gare du Nord. Translation from Franch by Mojca Medvedšek
– Selvedin Avdić: Sedam strahova. Translation from Bosnian
– Alfonso Cruz: A Boneca de Kokoschka*. Translation from Portugese
– Giovanni Dozzini: E Baboucar guidava la fila*. Translation from Italian
– Nick Hayes: The Rime of the Modern Mariner. Translation from English

* EUPL award.

The Borderless Words project comprises the question of socially responsive European literature in the age of social, political and environmental turmoil, where Europe is no exception. On the contrary, European integration and identity have been deeply shattered by the migration crisis and – in the more abstract sense – its relation to others (cultures and identities). On the other hand, with ongoing environmental crisis, Europe and the world, in general, is facing a major transformation of its self-understanding and taking action. We are living in the times when our social action and participation is heading toward (deeper) transformation – as is perhaps literature. The books included in the project are dealing with the questions of migration, ecology, war and general mechanisms of identification and relation to others, be it human or environment. The books are of different genres (novels and graphic novels) and of different fabulation in place and time but still, they are all concerned with the question of European identity, integration, and peaceful cultural and natural co-existence. Therefore, TBW project comprises the question of the function of literature as a force of European integration, but also as a critique of its failures, ranging from concrete historical dynamics, as in the book Sedam strahova by S. Avdić, or by abstract relation to other, as in the book A Boneca de Kokoschka by A. Cruz. We believe that the project shows a high level of the intersection of literary quality and much needed social responsiveness.For the selection of books the parameters of literary originality, as well as critical and professional visibility, were taken into account. We also took into account the fact that none of the selected authors, all of them of different countries and languages, have been yet translated into Slovene. We believe that the translation of selected works will be of great value to the Slovenian literary space and that it will reach a new readership. (Source: EAC.)

VBZ Publishing

(Leader)

Funded projects

MUSICVILLE – Green European Opera

Operation Nova

Kino x Games

FASIH - Future Art and Science Industrial Heritage

Cultural BEES

Is this us?

Climate Art Fusion Caravane (CARAVANE)

Moving Balkans

Youth Art for the Earth (YAFE)

Shadow Pandemic: Hidden Voices

Open House Europe (OHEu)

Third Stage

VERSOPOLIS – WHERE POETRY LIVES

December: Uncomfortable Beings, Azra, Best Imaginary Friends Forever

LINA - Learn, Interact, and Network in Architecture

Reactivating unused urban spaces through architecture and arts (ReCITYing)

Art Nouveau: a new EUtopia

Creative Industries Development Centre (KUL)

Web 3.0 Accelerator for Sustainable Cultural Tourism (Web3Tour)

Studiotopia: Enter the Symbiocene with Arts and Science (Studiotopia 2)

Bio Awakening - developing bio-art practices in Western Balkan

TestArt

GREENSTAGE

Connecting Emerging Literary Artists (CELA)

Transmedia stories of insularity (TRAST)

Female Digital Creativity (FLUX)

Planet Hope (New European Fiction) (PH)

More than a Book (MTaS)

Our Little Library: Through literary bridges to reading adventures (OLLLB)

Connected with Books (CWB)

Exploring Expanded Publishing: EX-Pub

Thinking Publishing (ThinkPub)

Novel Europe (NovelEU)

REVIVE

Temporama: Mini Slate 2023

Studi Virc: Mini Slate 2023

The 10th and 11th edition of FeKK - Ljubljana Short Film Festival

The 20th and 21st Kino Otok - Isola Cinema International Film Festival

20. and 21. ANIMATEKA International animated film festival

Film in Hospital 2.0

EU Youth Cinema: Green Deal 2024-2026

Cinema without barriers (CWB)

Literary Agent Platform: Capacity building (LAP CB)

Tramal Films Mini Slate 22 (TFMini22)

Vertigo Slate 2022: Chestnuts, Memory of Autumn Mists, OHO, Splashing around

Staragara slate 22

Our Little Library: Literary exchanges (OLL LE)

Testing Ground (TestG)

Better Live

Variola - Dark Spring TV series

SEMA

Paradiso

Leave the door open

The Big Green

The Long Way Down

New approaches for local media (NEWLOCAL)

Life Long Burning – Futures Lost and Found (LLB3)

Time For Live Art (LIVETIME)

Women Power in Comics (WOMCOM)

Movement, Digital Intelligence and Interactive Audience (MODINA)

Fortissimo (FF)

Spring Cleaning

Animation Festival Network

CulturalDeTour - Sustainable Cultural Tourism by Design Driven Innovation

Building the future of democracy through art, science and technology (EUDigitalDeal)

CEE Animation Forum 2021

The Museum of the Commons. Towards a Healthier Arts Ecosystem (MoC)

ACT: Art, Climate, Transition

Baths, gothic churches and miners’ houses

Fake Lies

THE FILM CORNER RELOADED - A CULTURAL APPROACH

CINEMINI EUROPE

FC Freedom

Body

Movies in Motion

Voix de la Poesie Europeenne

Trust me, I'm an artist

The Faces Behind the Nose - Promoting Hospital Clowning as a Recognized Genre of Performing Arts

SYMBOLS - Culture of Death& Cultural Life: New audiences and creations around European Cemeteries!