This programme, hosted by Rosa Luxemburg-Stiftung in Athens, brings together activists, legal practitioners, artists and researchers to explore the rapid externalisation of Europe’s borders under EU policy, relating these strategies to ongoing colonial practices of extraction and domination. The discussion will focus on how border externalisation systematically violates human rights, how the strategy exists in a legal grey zone, as well as the ways it affects neighbouring countries. The programme aims to critically examine the effects of border externalisation while situating such strategies historically, theoretically and politically.  

The programme is supported by Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie.

18 November 2020
Rosa Luxemburg-Stiftung, Athens

Speakers: Apostolis Fotiadis (researcher), Rahmane Idrissa (political scientist), Muhammad al-Kashef (human rights lawyer and migration activist), Angela Melitopoulos (artist/filmmaker), Nandita Sharma (activist scholar)

This programme, hosted by Arts Catalyst, brings together climate activists, legal practitioners, artists and researchers to explore how resource extraction, fossil capitalism and ecological dilapidation have been central forces in shaping contemporary migration and migratory flows.

The programme is supported by Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie.

22 October 2020
Arts Catalyst, London

Speakers: Nabil Ahmed (scholar and writer), Angela Chan (curator and founder of Worm: art + ecology), Radha D'Souza (social justice activist, lecturer in law), Nadine El-Enany (senior lecturer in law) 

This programme draws on the expertise of border specialists, media scholars and artists to explore the increasing technological nature of Europe’s borders. From exploring technologies as methods of both making and discrediting evidence, to the role of tech in forming an unevenly distributed restriction on bodies, and to the border as a site of growing investment and profit, their research and practice contributes to exposing and thinking through the surge in technological strategies for exclusion in, and by, Europe. Please join us and these five practitioners, who offer varied perspectives on this issue.

The programme is supported by Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie.

04 June 2020
Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam

Speakers: Ariana Dongus (media scholar and researcher), Flavia Dzodan (writer and researcher), Matthias Monroy (writer, activist), Ahmet Ögüt (artist and founder of The Silent University) and Annalisa Pelizza (professor in science and technology studies)

With contributions by – Lawrence Abu Hamdan, James Bridle, Kamil Dalkir, Design Unlikely Futures, Ayesha Hameed, Paul Feigelfeld, Melanie Friend, Eugenio Grosso, Olivia Head (Bread & Roses), Andrew Herscher, Thomas Keenan, Sohrab Mohebbi, Daniela Ortiz, Lucie Parker, Jill Power, Xose Quiroga, Daniel Trilling, Nana Varveropoulou

Edited by Rebecca Glyn-Blanco, Maria McLintock and Danae Io

Self-Published, July 2017
Printed in Athens, Greece
22 x 14 cm, 220 pages, color ill., softcover
ISBN 978-1-52720-888-9

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Group exhibition featuring –

Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Conflicted Phonemes
James Bridle, Seamless Transitions
Design Unlikely Futures, a/symmetries of the Jungle
Melanie Friend, Border Country
Eugenio Grosso, Papers
Ayesha Hameed, A Rough History (of the destruction of fingerprints)
Thomas Keenan & Sohrab Mohebbi, It is obvious from the map
Danae Io & Rebecca Glyn-Blanco, And if the asylum seeker does not wish to participate in the interview?
Nana Varveropoulou, No Man’s Land

5th – 21st May 2017
Grace – Filadelfias 2 & Liossion, Athens, Greece

Curated by Rebecca Glyn-Blanco, Maria McLintock and Danae Io

Playing the Part is an essay based on the research undertaken for the video installation “And if the asylum seeker does not wish to participate in the interview?” exploring the asylum interview process in Greece.

Commissioned by Contra Journal and published in ‘Issue 1: Displacement’. Available to buy here: contrajournal.com/shop