A Visual Investigation : Borders &
Experiencing Frontiers – Switzerland / France 19 : 48 sec

This slide and video presentation is a work in progress of the
[CCC] Postgraduate Students Project Collective. The first
segment is a visual series of different borders and ideas of
borders as well as contemporary artists working on this subject.
The second part is a video experiment created by the collective to
have a primary experience of the border between Switzerland and
France. The research project is a starting point for the collective
to develop issues on Frontiers and Nomadic Life.

ROUGH EDIT

Performing the Border, 1999 Ursula Biemann

http://www.geobodies.org/05_biography
http://www.geobodies.org/01_art_and_videos/1999_performing_the_border

VIDEO ESSAY, 45 MIN. / ENGLISH

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.

STUFF FROM ETUDIANTE

Sea Gypsies in the Philippines - Click on image above
to see documentary on Youtube by Jounrneyman Pictures

An example of a different kind of issues in Nomadic Life.

Article on Philippine Sea Gypsies under Threat - http://www.asiasentinel.com


A survey of artists working on issues in
borders and frontiers :

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.

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

ROUGH DRAFT AND UPDATES

Karamoja Project Updates 1.3 Wednesday

MERCI ! ! ! BONNE TRAIVILLE MON COMRADES ! ! ! ! !

DEADLINE – Saturday - SUNDAY LATEST 19 OCTOBER
IMAGES AND FILM DUE FOR FINAL EDIT ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
IMAGE POUR FINAL EDIT ! ! ! ! !

THURSDAY 16 OCTOBER
FILMING CREW MEETING 10AM REMOR 
MEET AT THE MAIN TRAIN STATION GENEVA

FRIDAY 17 OCTOBER

MEET AT MAIN TRAIN STATION 4pm

GOING TO BORDER AREAS

NEXT MEETING @ CCC
MONDAY 20 OCTOBER – 2pm
PREVIEW OF FINISHED WORK
PREVIEW POUR LE FINAL TRAIVILLE PROJET COLLECTIF ! ! ! ! !


CHECKLIST –
Someone Print out the map for tomorrow – bring film camera and still cameras !

Tomorrow write complete statement for the project / Ecrive le dossier pour le projet
Conclusion :



DISCUSSION : Talking about Proposals
A digital projection of images and video concerning the issues of Frontiers and
Borders`. Images that are expressing this diverse concept beyond just the issues in Karamoja.


Kasia in very interested in the Maps that Sylvain brought
Eva has curated a series of images on borders
Giulia interested in creating a video
Gael has an idea directly
Jen propose a pariticpative platform

Brought By Eva
The Frontiers of Utopia and Others Facts on the Ground
On Territories – MALMO KONSTHALL

Jen suggests Oliver Ressler works - http://www.ressler.at
Sylvain talks about Ursula Biemann`s work http://www.geobodies.org/

Note to self – Bring Eva`s Korea book Monday to meeting

DEADLINE – Saturday - SUNDAY LATEST 19 OCTOBER
IMAGES AND FILM DUE FOR FINAL EDIT ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
IMAGE POUR FINAL EDIT ! ! ! ! !

THURSDAY 16 OCTOBER
FILMING CREW MEETING 10AM REMOR
MEET AT THE MAIN TRAIN STATION GENEVA

FRIDAY 17 OCTOBER
MEET AT MAIN TRAIN STATION 4pm
GOING TO BORDER AREAS

NEXT MEETING @ CCC
MONDAY 20 OCTOBER – 2pm
PREVIEW OF FINISHED WORK
PREVIEW POUR LE FINAL TRAIVILLE PROJET COLLECTIF ! ! ! ! !

PAPERS

Crisis in Karamoja by James Bevan - http://www.smallarmssurvey.org/files/sas/publications/o_papers_pdf/2008-op21-Karamoja.pdf

PROJECT LINKS

Cultura 21 -  http://www.cultura21.org

Karamoja Conference Luneberg Germany - http://www.karamoja.eu

ARTIST LINKS

Guillermo Kuitca - http://www.speronewestwater.com 

Oliver Ressler - http://www.ressler.at

Ursula Biemann - http://www.geobodies.org