BORDERLESS & BEYOND BORDERS ITS Foundation dedicates the 2025 programming of ITS Arcademy to the celebration of Nova Gorica / Gorica, European Capital of Cross-border Culture.
The collaboration is divided into four projects:
- Museum exhibition GO! 2025 Borderless - Main Exhibition, Gallery Art and fashion inspired by barrier-free dialogue in the third ITS Arcademy exhibition: In line with the main theme of GO! 2025, ITS Arcademy's third exhibition, opening in the Gallery in March 2025, will explore the concept of ‘BORDERLESS’. Transcending geographical, cultural, social, and physical boundaries has been part of ITS's DNA since its inception in 2002. ITS Arcademy presents ‘Fashionlands: Clothes Beyond Borders’, an exhibition project born from the second collaboration between fashion historian Olivier Saillard and philosopher Emanuele Coccia. ‘Fashion knows no borders. Every dress redraws the border between our body and the world around it. Every dress negotiates the sensitive edges that separate and join us from all other bodies. All barriers in clothes are transformed into thresholds: spaces that must be inhabited and shared. This is why the political and cultural geography that separates and distinguishes, outside of clothes, nations, classes, ages, genders, identities, becomes in the hands of fashion a single continent, an enormous Pangaea, a single common country, the country of Fashion. This year's exhibition is an attempt to celebrate, through the collection of the ITS Arcademy archive, this ability of fashion to reshape global political and cultural space. Fashion also knows no boundaries from another point of view: it is everywhere, it inhabits our bodies and our world without limits of space and time. It accompanies us at every moment and in every place. This is why the exhibition also wants to be an exploration of the most ordinary clothes, those that no one often sees because they are under other clothes, or those that are too visible and too banal to be celebrated.’ Emanuele Coccia, co-curator The exhibition will be open to the public from 27 March 2025 and the exhibition will close on 4 January 2026.
- ITS Residency GO!2025 Borderless Thematic art residency with ITS Contest selectees: ITS Residency GO!2025 Borderless From 9 to 19 March 2025, the ten finalists of ITS Contest 2025 will have the opportunity to take part in a tailor-made residency that tackles fundamental aspects of the sector's work, with a calendar of creative workshops, seminars and coaching activities, united by the theme of Borderless, i.e. overcoming borders, both physical-geographical and socio-cultural, supported by the tutors of the ITS international network, which will take place between the museum and iconic locations in Friuli Venezia Giulia, such as Villa Manin
- Environmental photography installation GO!2025 Borderless The exhibition beyond the boundaries of the museum: Environmental photography installation GO! 2025 Borderless In collaboration with the prestigious Studio Azimut, photographs will be taken of the ten outfits made by the finalist designers in the GO! 2025 BORDERLESS project held in 2023/24. Six double-sided totems will be designed and produced and positioned between the entrance of the ITS Arcademy Museum in Via Cassa di Risparmio 10 and Via Bellini, an area of great tourist flow.
- ITS Project GO! 2025 Borderless for FVG Schools Learning to collaborate through creativity: the project, which takes place in the a/s 2024-2025, is intended for students of the fourth and fifth classes of the seven fashion-oriented high schools (Licei Artistici, Istituti Professionali and Istituti Tecnici) in FVG. The educational project offers students the opportunity to develop and express their creativity through workshops, guided tours, study and development of mini-collections, all under the banner of collaboration and limitless creativity, according to the didactic method of Peer-to-Peer education. The programme will focus on the values of GO! Borderless. Seven outfits will be designed and developed, one for each school, which will become part of the ITS Arcademy Collection and will be displayed to the public, highlighting the creativity of the Region's young people.
