Border Agency ~event in the framework of Liquid Landscapes: what if the ground under your feet can’t be trusted?
July 4, 2019 posted in collaboration, events, researchDate: Wednesday, July 10, 2019
Time: 19:00 – 21:30
Together with the Border Agency collective, we would like to cordially invite you to join and discuss their research titled Liquid Landscapes: what if the ground under your feet can’t be trusted?, through which the concepts of landscape, media, and identity are being addressed. This gathering is a proposition for starting a new conversation, during which each participant will be asked to reflect on the following question: what if the ground under your feet can’t be trusted?
The participants’ answers will be then collectively discussed through the perspective of this research that questions the experience of a weaponized landscape. How can an everyday landscape become a weapon? Can a certain territory turn against its inhabitants? What strategies can we use in order to access and appropriate a territory that has been already weaponized?
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This activity is a side event of the Border Agency collective solo exhibition at the Kunstfort bij Vijfhuizen. You are also invited to visit the exhibition opening on Sunday, July 7, 15.00. Opening speech at 15.30, followed by Q&A, drinks and music by Mayo. The exhibition will run until 1 of September this year. Kunstfort Vijfhuizen Fortwachter 1, 2141 EV Vijfhuizen.
Fort bij Vijfhuizen was part of a 19th century military strategy which transformed landscape into a weapon by using water as a defense line. Considering this Stelling van Amsterdam remained unused and thus, in turn, became part of the landscape, collective Border Agency confronts in their exhibition visitors with an “active” landscape. For Liquid Landscapes they combine their ongoing Landmines Project with new work. This new installation, made with local collaborators, questions the experience of a weaponized landscape by linking the Stelling van Amsterdam and the minefields in the Atacama desert, at the borders of Chile, Argentina, Peru and Bolivia.
Border Agency is an international collective formed in Chile, which studies the representation of landscape and relationships that are established in different communities. They use video, audio, digital photography, drawings and installation. The collective is run by Maria-Rosario Montero, Paula Salas and Sebastian Melo.