Blurring Borders, Reimagining Horizons Event

Blurring Borders, Reimagining Horizons will open on June 27th at 18:00 (CEST) at ENTRE, allowing interventions by the public and participants and thus creating the possibility for a transference of knowledge through narrative traces, reflections and speculations on migration, with the purpose of arriving at a new understanding of movement that takes into account the concept of ‘mobility justice’.

To understand how borders operate in the 21st century is to render the nation-state as a three-dimensional structure: A political unit extending in all directions for a certain measure of distance, over a certain period of time. We seek to break the classical notion of the territorial bundling of power, history and space, to reimagine migration —and the issues related to it— through a lens of mobility justice, drawing on the inherent legal and cultural ambiguities at the borders between air, land, and sea.

GENERATION 10:
Generation 10 of the Vienna Master of Arts in Applied Human Rights—an interdisciplinary postgraduate program at the intersection of human rights and the arts at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna, features a diverse group of individuals with a shared passion for human rights and commitment to make a positive impact through their efforts and experiences in social work, law, global governance, sociology, art history, international relations, political science, advocacy, and cultural events. Each one brings unique perspectives and talents to the exhibition ranging from photography, literature, history, and community work. They are dedicated to promoting equality and kindness while aiming to spark critical conversations.

PUBLIC PROGRAM:

28th of June (17:00): Navigation I
Navigating vertically (with Luisa Pisetta and Mursal Heydari)
Performative intervention which explores failed encounters between humans.

29th of June (17:00): Navigation II
From soil to skin (with Samira Saidi)
From Soil to Skin is an experimental collective deep listening session that attempts to bring the concept of the exhibition back into the individual’s body. The listening session will incorporate a reading of the artist’s eponymous collection of essays and poems.

TBA (July): Navigation III
How do wars change the concept of borders?
The session is a participatory talk/debate focusing on the current Russia/Ukraine conflict.