Join us at e-flux Screening Room on Tuesday, May 2, at 7 pm for an evening on surreal border regimes and ghostly traces of migration, curated by the noncitizen collective. Four short films relate the haunting presence of absence in stories of displacement and exile, two of which—What’s Your Problem, Bruno? and If I Left You Now—were produced within the collective. Following the screenings, there will be a conversation with Palestinian researcher and community organizer Amany Khalifa on the subject of citizenship in occupied Palestine…
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Under våren arrangerar Nationalmuseum en serie konst- och filmvisningar tillsammans med organisationen Noncitizen. Vid tre separata tillfällen undersöker vi temat…
Darun (1999) works within different fields of art: music, text, acting and painting. He started painting abstract works, sometimes with…
“To be a citizen or not to be a citizen, that is the question.” Displacing the Shakespearean phrase, the films screened on this evening all draw attention to the imposed nature of citizenship. Whether we want it or not, (non)citizenship(s) define our supposedly universal rights and nation-states’ control, and regulate our (differential) access to movement. Visible and invisible borders play a key role in creating, holding, and separating nation-states, for they determine our perception of how we encounter the world—our so-called point of view. As scholars Shahram Khorsravi and Mahmoud Keshavarz write in their essay “The Magic of Borders” (e-flux Architecture, May 2020): “Borders turn neighbors into enemies. A short distance suddenly becomes farther. The skin of people on the other side becomes darker