Berlin-based artist Farida Heuck collaborates with the Imaginary Border Academy, which was initiated during the last Artivistic meeting in Montreal. Sophie and Annik, who have been sharing the CK cultural center with the Mobicase workshop, were presenting their project Accustoming Canadians to Sublimation
throughout the Upgrade! meeting in Skopje:
Accustoming Canadians to Sublimation
consists of the creation of a ‘special embassy’ based on a workshop series, which adressed questions like diplomatic immunity, representation, international relations as performance, and the virtual and actual facets of national borders, within a context of transnational movement and constructions of the ‘collective’. The workshop served to discuss what sort of services this particular ‘special embassy’ would offer.
Sophie and Annik in their workshop space.
Farida Heuck, who is a member of the Imaginary Border Academy, sended her contribution to the workshop in the form of a video message from Berlin…here it is:
The Visa Wait and Walk Tour
Al’s Lads film
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The immigration control system is changing and migrants are divided along economic and demographic policy interests. That becomes obvious when one takes a closer look at which institutions are involved in
issuing visas. In Berlin, for example, there is the newly set up Business Immigration Service of the German Chambers of Industry and Commerce, which aims to ease the immigration of foreign entrepreneurs
and specialized professionals. The job centers are also playing bigger roles in whether someone gets a visa or not. And there are still the well known institutions issuing visas, like the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs. On my walk through various institutions, I am interested in seeing how the strategy of blocking, and controlling, recruitment will already appear in the buildings.
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