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In this first edition of Periple Duet, a residencies on-the-move series, the Triennale convenes emerging figures from LINA community to create and undergo a thematic itinerary that unites the city where they live with Lisbon.
Ajda Bračič presents her intimate travel diary spawning twelve fragments, one for each day of train travel between Ljubljana and Lisbon. Focusing on the correspondences between language and space, she examines in a non-linear way how words and architectural ideas have always migrated and travelled, ignoring borders and creating identities that continuously overlap.
Editor and cultural critic in various media, whose research focuses on the intersections between architecture, identity and language in different communities' practices, techniques and knowledge. In 2021 she founded Kajža, an NGO dedicated to rehabilitation and sustainable vernacular practices and in 2022 she co-edited the book Super Vernaculars! and made her debut in fiction writing with the publication of Leteči ljudje, a collection of short stories.
For this premiere, Ajda Bračič and Tevi Allan Mensah travelled through more than 20 cities by collective means of land transportation, on rails or wheels. This is a reflection on architecture and landscape framed by notions of border, fluidity, mobility, or heritage, both material and immaterial. In this residency-on-the-move travelling becomes the raw material of an exercise in observation: experiencing territorial diversity, reducing distances and extending limits.