Sea Gypsies in the Philippines - Click on image above
to see documentary on Youtube by Jounrneyman Pictures
Article on Philippine Sea Gypsies under Threat - http://www.asiasentinel.com
Colors Isssue on Frontiers - http://www.colorsmagazine.com/issues/colors63/01.php
A survey of artists working on issues in borders and frontiers :
Montse Arbelo and Joseba Franco -http://www.montsearbelojosebafranco.com
Notable work:
Nomads. East - West
Through this project, we want to explore this time that gives coherence to all human forms of expression, in the East and the West, through the overall patterns on which myths and reality have been constructed. While there may be no match for transversality in our day and age, the transubstantiation of reality into multiple and varied forms allows us to see the vision of the East reflected in the mirror of the West and vice versa. There are no certainties and no clear boundaries exist.
http://www.montsearbelojosebafranco.com/nomads.htm
Ursula Biemann - http://www.geobodies.org
Notable work: Performing the Border, 1999
Performing the Border is a video essay set in the
Mexican-US border town Ciudad Juarez, where the U.S.
industries assemble their electronic and digital equipment,
located right across from El Paso, Texas. Performing
the Border looks at the border as both a discursive
and a material space constituted through the performance
and management of gender relations. The video discusses
the sexualization of the border region through labor
division, prostitution, the expression of female desires
in the entertainment industry, and sexual violence in the
public sphere. Interviews, scripted voice over, quoted
text on the screen, scenes and sounds recorded on site,
as well as found footage are combined to give an insight
into the gendered conditions inscribed in the border region.
Heath Bunting - http://irational.org
Borderxing Online Zine - http://irational.org/borderxing/open/borderxing_zine.pdf
National borders are increasingly frontlines of political and social dissent. Asylum-seeking and political migrations are some of the most significant issues of our time. Heath Bunting's BorderXing Guide website primarily consists of documentation of walks that traverse national boundaries, without interruption from customs, immigration, or border police. The work comments on the way in which movement between borders is restricted by governments and associated bureaucracies. http://www.tate.org.uk/intermediaart/borderxing.shtm
Eric Roux-Fontaine - http://www.eric-roux-fontaine.com
Notable works: Les Territories, Rrhomano Than 2005
Eric Roux-Fontaine nous invite à une ballade géopoétique en
Rromano than, ce pays sans frontière où l'on arrive jamais.
Un véritable voyage à travers le Voyage, à la rencontre d'une
nation sans territoire. Ses Chroniques réelles d'un pays
imaginaires sont d'abord affaire de proximité sensitive
tissée au fil des années entre un artiste et le peuple rrom.
Au fil du temps, des voyages, ils se sont liés comme le pigment.
Autant de porosités partagées dont ce livre est devenu le point
de convergence. Eric Roux-Fontaine dessine ainsi la cartographie
suggestive d'une relation à une histoire, à une identité.
La photographie se fait ici terrain d'accueil des incertitudes,
des cultures, des paradoxes, des espoirs de ce peuple européen
avant la lettre. Rromano than ne repose pas sur le sol, mais
habite chaque âme en exil. Le langage d'Eric Roux-Fontaine est
simple. Son message est complexe et riche. Et ses images restent.
Oliver Ressler - http://www.ressler.at
DON’T PURCHASE A BETTER WORLD, FIGHT FOR A BETTER WORLD
A billboard on gated communities in Warsaw
By Oliver Ressler
Gated communities seem to emerge primarily in countries
with big differences in income among people and where
governments show no real effort in redistributing wealth.
Post-socialist Poland and especially Warsaw seem to be
very fertile grounds for social disintegration and
segregation, which leads to the development of gated
communities at an incredible pace. For people who
choose to live in gated communities, the reduction
of uncertainty and disturbing factors seem to be of
tremendous importance. (from email newsletter)
Veejay Villafranca - http://www.veejayvillafranca.com
Notable works:
De railed, Reserved Space - Thai and Burma Border and
Keepers of the Sea: The sea gypsies in the Philippines
RESERVED SPACE: LIFE ON THE THAI-BURMA BORDER
From the highway, the sprawling community of thatch-roofed
homes like picturesque with lush fields below and, at the rear,
rugged limestone cliffs highlighting the pagodas of Buddhist
temples. But close up, postcard pretty is replaced by poverty
and a miasma of fear and hopelessness among the estimated
100,000 residents of the Mae La refugee camp.
For decades now, a brutal counter-insurgency campaign has
displaced an estimated half a million civilians in Myanmar's
provinces bordering Thailand's northwest. In 2007, more than
40,000 others evacuated to avoid armed conflict or were forcibly
relocated by an army determined to deny guerilla groups
their mass base.
The refugees would rather be home. For now, however, return
is synonymous to death.
- Inday Espina-Varona
survey of african art / artists -
Bag Factory Studios - http://www.bagfactoryart.org.za
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