[rohrpost] Fwd: multiplicity - border counter

[Andreas Horbelt <horbelt@gmx.net>]

Hoffe, wir hatten das hier noch nicht...

A.

> this is the new project multiplicity is working at, please join or
> help to circulate, thank you.
>
>                        [ve]01: border counter
>
>                         call for participation
>
> The dream of a world-space completely fluid and passable is maybe the
> last utopia of the 20th century.The smooth quality supposedly inherent
> to contemporary space though, at a closer look of the territory seems
> to fail.One of the immediate results of global interconnections and
> movements, in fact, appears to be a proliferation of borders, security
> systems, checkpoints, physical and virtual frontiers.This phenomenon
> can be observed both at the micro-level of our surroundings and on the
> macro-scale of global flows.Borders are, in fact, all around us.They
> are both conventional and geographical, abstract and real, ordinary
> and controversial.An encompassing view of this combination of flows
> (of people, goods, ideasÖ) and restrictions on a given territory
> unfolds the complexity of both individual and collective identities
> that are, at the same time, constructed and diffracted by the
> experience of border-crossing.
>
> Multiplicity is promoting a research project to detect this
> proliferation of border devices, along with its consequences and
> relations to contemporary space and society.
>
> what
>
> [ve]01: border counter is an installation project curated by
> Multiplicity and Officina Plug-in that will gather different
> experiences of borders-crossing on a pre-given route: Berlin ? Venice
> ? Jerusalem.It will be an on going visual atlas and archive on the
> idea of borders and on the processes that are needed to move through
> them. It will be a platform where different views, notions and
> experiences will meet and mingle. It will be a collaborative work made
> of the contributions of those who want to respond to this call.
>
> [ve]01: border counter will gather, in this way, diverse perspective
> coming from a number of individual positions and personal analysis. It
> will be, at the same time, a fluid critical space, in which the idea
> of border will be both visually and critically diffracted and
> examined.
>
> where
>
> 50th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia. Utopia
> Station exhibition. June 12th? November 2nd, 2003.
>
> whom
>
> this call is to all those architects, urban planners, artists,
> photographers, film-makers, designers, cultural practitioners who are
> interested in contributing to [ve]01: border counter.Multiplicity and
> Officina Plug-in invite them to share their travel notes, film
> material, visas etc. with other traveller-artists in order to build a
> collaborative project that gives a complex view on the experience of
> border-crossing.
>
> how
>
> all the participants are asked to travel through two given
> trajectories: either Berlin / Venice or Jerusalem / Venice. The paths,
> times, modalities of the travels are up to each participant.Trips can
> be on foot, by bus, bike, plane, train, boat, muleÖ or any other
> possible solution or combination.
>
> The participants will have to deliver videos in mini-dv format and
> photos on cd-rom. Editing facilities will be available in the
> installation space. Travel papers, notes are welcome in combination
> with the digital material.
>
> when
>
> [ve]01:border counter will open on June 12th. An on-line confirmation
> is required to all the participants by may 31st via e-mail at
> info@borderdevices.org. During the first days, the installation will
> function as a meeting point for the traveller-artists and all the film
> material will be collected and edited with the support of our
> staff.Afterwards, videos of the different trips will be screened all
> together throughout the whole period of the Biennale of Visual Art
> 2003
>
> [ve]01: deadlines
>
> applicationmay 31st
>
> deliveryjune 10th ? 20th
>
> editing june 12th ? 30th
>
> exhibitjune 12th ? november 2nd
>
> why
>
> [ve]01: border counter is an invitation to put ourselves in between,
> in the middle of conflicts and contradictions. To detect the local
> conflicts, using an insider view. It is a tool to remind the
> proliferation of barriers, fences, enclaves, gathered circuits that
> our societies are building in order to underline and fix the
> identities of the multiple minorities which are structuring them.
>
> [ve]01: border counter is a way to remind the weakness of our
> identity-remarks. It is simply mirroring the imperfect Polyarchy which
> is structuring our societies. Reflecting the arrogance and the dreams
> of its multiple minorities.
>
> Border-device(s) ? www.borderdevices.org ? is an ongoing
> research/project by Multiplicity(Stefano Boeri, Maddalena Bregani,
> Maki Gherzi, Matteo Ghidoni, Sandi Hilal, John Palmesino, Alessandro
> Petti + Isabella Inti, Salvatore Porcaro, Francesca Recchia) and Domus
> Academy with Berlage Institute Rotterdam, Kunstwerke Berlin, Officina
> Plug-in Venezia, Progetto Italia.
>
> Multiplicity is a an agency for territorial investigation based in
> Milan. Multiplicity is concerned in contemporary urbanism,
> architecture, visual arts and general culture. Multiplicity detects
> the physical environment, researching for the clues and traces
> produced by new social behaviors. Multiplicity promotes and organises
> projects in various parts of the world. Multiplicity is an
> ever-changing network, recruited in the various geographical area of
> intervention. The research network is formed by architects,
> geographers, artists, urban planners, photographers, sociologists,
> economists, filmmakers, etc. Multiplicity projects and produces
> installations, intervention strategies, workshops and books about the
> recent and hidden processes of transformation of the urban condition.
> At present, the Multiplicity network counts on around eighty
> researchers, involved in three major projects: USE-Uncertain states of
> Europe (Bordeaux 2000, Brussels 2001, Tokyo 2001, Perth 2002, Milan
> 2002); Solid Sea, a study of the Mediterranean presented at
> Documenta11 and Border-Device(s), a research about the proliferation
> of controversial bounderies in the contemporary world (Berlin
> Kunst-Werke, Venice Future Center, and Venice Biennale 2003). Other
> recent projects include Tokyo Voids (Tokyo 2002), The Chinese
> Connection (Perth International Arts Festival 2002) and Space World ?
> a Void workshop (CCA Kitakyushu 2002).Publications include: Mutations,
> (Actar, Barcelona 2001, with various authors); Mutations, (TNProbe,
> Tokyo 2000, also by various authors), Geographie und die Politik der
> Mobilität, (Generali Foundation, Vienna 2003, by various authors), USE
> Uncertain states of Europe (Skira, Milan 2003).
>
> www.multiplicity.it
>
> www.stefanoboeri.net




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