The Wanderer and the Border (ATOPIA no. 1 - 06/2002)
Spaces, areas and territories are defined by their borders. What happens to a frontier when it is crossed, what happens to a limit when it is transgressed? ATOPIA follows the footpaths of those nomads, travelers and wanderers whose stealthy movements prefigure a subversive relationship to cartographic space
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Written by Jenny Livia (San Diego)
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A visual montage of glimpses, between the metaphorical and the very concrete, of some dramatic consequences of the erection of a wall between the US-American and the Mexican border. By the American video artist Jenny Livia. |
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Written by Thomas Hug (Genève)
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In Thomas Hug's composition for ATOPIA, rigid borders between musical genres dissolve and de-compose. Combining the discourse of a prelude and a canon, he creates an ambiguous polyphony. |
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Written by Yung Ky Min (San Diego)
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The programmer Yung Ky Min has developed a simple shockwave game that will attempt to shed light to the many tribulations and lethal dangers Mexican labor workers encounter if they choose to cross the US border. |
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Imagine there's no border... |
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Written by Maciej Wawrzycki (Warszawa)
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As we have underestimated how quickly the Iron Curtain could fall, we still don't realize how deeply technology could transform society, creating hybrids without borders. A statement from a Polish perspective. |
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Written by Ines Doleschal (Berlin)
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Strange bodies which seem to float between restlessness and immobility are the dwellers of Doleschals painting worlds which she invites us to discover |
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"Wanderer, there is no way..." |
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Written by Silvia Ibarra (Bogotà)
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The Columbian performance artist recollects the reasons which led her to walk for ten years through South, Central and North America, Asia and Europe and describes the sensations in body and mind of this almost never-ending journey. |
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1-THE WANDERER AND THE BORDER