URSULA BIEMANN - THE MAGHREB CONNECTION: COUNTER-GEOGRAPHIES IN THE SAHARA
THURSDAY@ARGOS - LECTURE
Since the fortification of the European outer rim and the pressure put on
Maghreb countries to stem migration from the South, the Sahara basin has become a contested zone of mobility. We are witnessing large-scale geographic reconfigurations activated by growing and highly flexible practices of migration, proficient at rerouting, reorganizing or moving covertly in record time. Diverting attention from the current fascination with power geographies and repressive border regimes, The Maghreb Connection (2005-2007), a collaborative research and exhibition project based in Cairo, explores the counter-geographies constituted by clandestine operating systems, innovative practices of resistance and migratory self-determination.
Biemann also introduces Sahara Chronicle, a video collection on the post-colonial entanglements that underlie the current sub-Saharan exodus towards Europe.
Ursula Biemann (b. 1955, Zurich) is an artist, theorist and curator. She has produced a considerable body of work about migration, mobility, technology and gender. She works as a researcher at the Institute for Art and Design Theory in Zurich.
Maghreb countries to stem migration from the South, the Sahara basin has become a contested zone of mobility. We are witnessing large-scale geographic reconfigurations activated by growing and highly flexible practices of migration, proficient at rerouting, reorganizing or moving covertly in record time. Diverting attention from the current fascination with power geographies and repressive border regimes, The Maghreb Connection (2005-2007), a collaborative research and exhibition project based in Cairo, explores the counter-geographies constituted by clandestine operating systems, innovative practices of resistance and migratory self-determination.
Biemann also introduces Sahara Chronicle, a video collection on the post-colonial entanglements that underlie the current sub-Saharan exodus towards Europe.
Ursula Biemann (b. 1955, Zurich) is an artist, theorist and curator. She has produced a considerable body of work about migration, mobility, technology and gender. She works as a researcher at the Institute for Art and Design Theory in Zurich.
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Thu 22.5.2008
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