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Saturday, November 26, 2005
Exhibition / Berlin
B-ZONE Becoming Europe and Beyond
KW (Kunst Werke Berlin _ Institute for Contemporary Arts)
December 17, 2005 – February 26, 2006
Re-Print from KW :
B-ZONE is a territorial research and collaborative art project on what is soon to become a part of the European Union: the transitory geographies of Southeast Europe, the Balkans, Turkey reaching until the Caucasus. Each of the three core projects unfold as they follow the trajectory and traces of large-scale transnational infrastructures laid down in the territories of former communist states and beyond. The Black Sea Files by Ursula Biemann explores the new pipeline connecting the world’s oldest Oil Capital Baku at the Caspian Shore with the Mediterreanean, Postwar Footprints by media researcher Lisa Parks investigates telecommunication and satellite infrastructure before and after the Balkan wars and Timescapes, a project by Angela Melitopoulos with partners in Ankara, Athens and Belgrade which follows the EU-financed “Corridor X”, a historic migration route connecting Germany with Turkey, reconstructing the infamous Yugoslav “Highway of Brotherhood and Unity”. B-ZONE investigates the spaces and implications created by these infrastructures as lived experience against the background of neo-colonial economic strategies, mass migration and war. Beyond the accumulation of field work information and facts, the projects interlace the production and meaning of subjective and collective perceptual spaces and representations with the “silent” language of infrastructure, questioning the democratic of the ideology of capitalist integration that, since the collapse of the Soviet bloc, counts as progressive and holds a status of historical necessity.
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