From: "dr.woooo" <dr.woooo-AT-nomasters.org>
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 17:44:15 +1000
Subject: AUT: [noiioz] Border 04 europe


Border 04
Submitted by fls on Fri, 04/09/2004 - 12:10. 
BORDER04 is the common framework for a wide range of local and remote, mobile 
and stationary activities taking place in summer 2004. It is a modular, 
temporary, and tactical association of various new media-and network-
initiatives from east and west europe, from outside as well as within the new 
europe. An international and interdisciplinary coalition of fine art and 
performance artists, human rights-, noborder- and new media-activists, 
filmmakers, video- and fotografers, researchers, scientists and investigators 
will set a series of events in motion that surround, circumvent and perforate 
the borders of Europe. B04 is a two month, virtual travel along both sides of 
the new borders of an enlarged European Union, from the balcan to the baltic 
states.

B04 will connect and shortcircuit debates around migration with debates about 
the expansion of the borders of the EU, around mobility, mobile technologies 
and freedom of movement, about the future dimensions of networking and the 
impact this will have for those already within Europe and those previously 
outside it.

1. Tracing the routes of migration:

The many faces of migration are producing dramatic changes, that are not only 
affecting local and remote economies. People in transit, commuters between 
east and west, seasonal and domestic workers form new concepts of Europe, that 
are based on mobility, no matter if unsolicited or unvoluntarily.

2. Mapping the spaces in between:

Theoretically it's only a small drift from what lies beyond the limitations of 
national imagination to the imaginations of those outside of it. But in 
practice, the spaces between Europe and non-Europe are being dispersed, 
extracted and contracted by numerous movements of very different actors on an 
unknown and ever-changing field.

3. Crossing the borders from the real to a virtual europe:

Leaving traditional political and geographical notions of Europe behind the 
information and communication technologies as well as the flows of migration 
do shape a virtual europe, that is defined by it's openness rather than it's 
borders. There is an unrepresentable multitude of europes to be discovered and 
explored.

Working on these three fields B04 will consist of four modules that will be 
developed by independent organizing teams, that are networking among each 
others:

Research:

In order to investigate the subjectivities and the constitutive power of 
people networking across borders, research units will work on frequently asked 
questions: How does a re-designed european border regime change the daily life 
of the people in the areas of the new border regions? Which stories, 
experiences and what desires do people have, that live on this and that side 
of the new border of the official, but in the midst of a virtual Europe? What 
does living conditions of people that are on the move look like? On the move 
into illegality or into precarious labour or into detention centers? How do 
workers of the worldmarket factories struggle and organise -- in- and outside 
of the new external european border?

Workshops:

B04 will involve remote activists and local community organisers in workshops 
and training programs in both an adhoc and a sustainable fashion adressing the 
needs of local activists and civil society. It will focus on skill-sharing to 
enable and empower people with the practical use of new media technologies by 
providing connectivity, introducing open source software and offering 
unfettered access to communication tools. A transnational migration-guide will 
support and empower people in their interest to find better living- or working 
conditions, no question if it is temporarily or permanently. There will be a 
special focus on the potential of digital media to facilitate dialogue and 
communication across national borders, and on the power of filmmaking, 
photography and storytelling in the negotiation of emerging, hyphenated 
identities.

Performances:

To present the images and narratives of an emerging european culture that is 
currently created around the issues of information society and transnational 
mobility, B04 will present exhibitions, screenings and performances in public 
spaces and in close collaboration with local and international artists and art 
institutions.

Documentation:

In order to document the experiences, acquaintances, results and achievements 
of the project publically, in real-time or near on real-time internet 
connectivity is one of the key issues. B04 will be accompanied by a specially 
equipped van that provides a high-bandwith internet connection via satellite. 
Using all available media from print to radio to video in different output-
formats the real-time documentation of a project at such an extend aims to 
facilitate dialogue and interactive communication between Europe's diverse 
peoples, new and old.

The ultimate goal is to build a new vision of Europe that moves on against 
exclusion, resentment, localism, narrow-mindednesss, racism and xenophobia.

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