Thursday 12.12.2024 7.00 p.m. - 9.00 p.m.
Mobilistan
Mobilistan by Manaf Halbouni and Christian Manss does not focus on the journey along border lines, but understands the state itself as a mobile entity. Without further ado, Halbouni and Manss declared their limousine to be a state territory whose outer borders are marked by the car body, which can be entered or exited via the car doors. The mobile “state” has the familiar sign systems of a state, its own flag, national anthem and passport, and Halbouni, Manss and two comrades-in-arms decide as permanent residents who receives the citizenship of Mobilistan.
MOBILISTAN – The first state in the space of a vehicle
Nowa America
“Nation states are constructions of reality that arise from the human need for narratives about oneself. They only exist because a sufficiently large number of people believe in them. With Słubfurt and Nowa Amerika, the artist aims to illustrate the strategies that lead individuals to identify with a nation state. At the same time, he offers alternative narratives and invites people to join in. Together with others, he lives as a laboratory in the cross-border urban space of Frankfurt (Oder) – Słubice, in a community of solidarity in which the dialectic of the WE and the OTHERS is undermined, in which there is only one WE”
www.nowa-amerika.eu
The artists will then discuss the different artistic strategies in relation to borders. The discussion will be moderated by Dr. Marta Smolińska (Magdalena Abakanowicz University of Arts Poznań), a curator of the exhibition Vom Teilen. Kunst an der (polnisch-deutschen) Grenze.
The event will be in German.
