Charles Heller, "Crossroads at the Edge of Worlds", Video Still, 2006
Charles Heller, "Crossroads at the Edge of Worlds",
Video Still, 2006
Friday, June 6, 2008, 8 pm
< rotor >, Volksgartenstraße 6a, 8020
Graz
In the frame of the exhibition "Land of Human Rights. At the Limits of
the Thinkable" the artist Charles Heller presents the video "Crossroads
at the Edge of Worlds. Sub-Saharan Transit Migration in Morocco", which
is a part of the The Maghreb Connection (2006-2007) project. In addition
he shows Doa Aly’s video “Chinese Sweet, Chinese Pretty” and
Hala Elkoussy ‘s video “From Rome to Rome”. Before the screening
Charles Heller talks about The Maghreb Connection project, discussing
the context of migration and migration control in the Maghreb and the artistic
strategies used to contribute to undermining the current repressive politics.
The Maghreb Connection is a collaborative art and visual research project initiation
by Ursula Biemann on the North African migratory space. A special focus is placed
on Sub-Saharan transit migration – now the dominant and undoubtedly the
most highly mediatized form of movement in the region – which has turned
the Maghreb into a transit zone. In response to the human conditions under which
trans-Saharan migration takes place and the dramatizing media images and calls
for border reinforcements that it has brought forth, The Maghreb Connection
sets out to intervene in the current discursive and visual representations with
a contribution of new videos, photo series and research essays. In the course
of eighteen months, eight art projects were developed in dialogue with each
other.
More Information: www.geobodies.org
The movie nights are supported by:
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ETC - European Training- and Research Centre for Human Rights and Democracy