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migrating democrazy at Manifesta8<\/strong>
10-minute TV broadcast
Spanish spoken with English subtitles<\/p>\n

Manifesta<\/a>, the European Biennial of Contemporary Art, was this year
located in the Region of Murcia, Spain, focusing on a dialogue with Northern Africa. At the invitation of one of the chosen curatorial teams, Chamber of Public Secrets (CPS)<\/a>, we produced a 10-minute TV programme for Canal 7. Entitled migrating democrazy<\/em> and made in collaboration with documentary filmmaker Rick van Amersfoort, it was also presented within the exhibition venues in Murcia at the Media Lounge and Cartagena at the former prison.<\/p>\n

During a research period this summer and with the assistance of Abelardo Sainz, we interviewed the local residents in the region of Murcia, Velez Blanco, and especially the neighbourhood El Molinete in Cartagena. Anecdotes about their own family histories, ranging from the Spanish Civil War<\/a> to unresolved boating deaths, migration traumas and border controls all reflect the current state of affairs.<\/p>\n

migrating democrazy <\/em>shows diverse modes of participation and action, between parties large and small, known as well as unknown. If one were to reflect on the migration of democracy and the manifold definitions of what democracy actually means we come to a paradox of movement and standing still. Some of us can move freely without much trouble, others cannot and are sometimes even imprisoned for having tried to \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcmigrate democracy\u00e2\u20ac\u2122. Or rather migrate democrazy<\/em>– it is like a gadget everyone wants to have but it is like a foreign language in the mouth, poisonous because of the lack of control in the production process. Addressed by the protagonists themselves, migrating democrazy<\/em> can be seen as a frenzied cartography of the perception of borders.<\/p>\n

It begins with the \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcart of traveling\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 with boat refugees coming from Africa to Europe, escaping a lack of a future and capitalist induced poverty whilst going to the source. With the \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcart of economy\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, cheap workers from all over the world work for low costs in Spain. Uitilising the \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcart of surveillance\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 and the \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcart of war\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, Frontex<\/a> is the new frontline machine in the war on migration, with its Indalo<\/a> operation. The \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcart of smuggling\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 is the very blurred line between criminality and humanity, in similar quotation between humanitarian warfare and welfare. The \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcart of humanity\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, in which civilians help\/support migrants across the Mediterranean sea connects to the \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcart of hospitality\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, where people give others shelter, or work and take care of them. Lastly the \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcart of dying\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 surfaces, in which bodies float on the sea and wash ashore.<\/p>\n

Financial Support: The Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture<\/a>, Manifesta8<\/a><\/p>\n

Thanks to: Alicia Alcarez G\u00c3\u00b3mez, Pedro Hernandez, Markane Seck, Arona Seye, Halifa Mbengue, Jos\u00c3\u00a9 Lop\u00c3\u00a9z Chacopino, Jes\u00c3\u00bas Perez Rodr\u00c3\u00adguez, Ignaico Pe\u00c3\u00b1a Ruiz, Mihai Iliana Gigeta, Felipe Segura Guti\u00c3\u00a9rrez, Diego Iglesias Cabrera, Luis Miguel P\u00c3\u00a9rez Ad\u00c3\u00a1n, Jos\u00c3\u00a9 Antonio Mart\u00c3\u00adnez L\u00c3\u00b3pez,
Jos\u00c3\u00a9 Juan Aniorte, Bartolom\u00c3\u00a9 Garci\u00c3\u00a1 Gil, Francisco (Paco) Garc\u00c3\u00ada Garc\u00c3\u00ada, Dolores Garc\u00c3\u00ada Hern\u00c3\u00a1ndez, Valeriola Gonzal\u00c3\u00a9z Caridad, Dolores Meca, Karmen Gonz\u00c3\u00a1lez Mart\u00c3\u00adnez, Samy Slimani<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

migrating democrazy at Manifesta810-minute TV broadcastSpanish spoken with English subtitles Manifesta, the European Biennial of Contemporary Art, was this yearlocated in the Region of Murcia, Spain, focusing on a dialogue with Northern Africa. At the invitation of one of the chosen curatorial teams, Chamber of Public Secrets (CPS), we produced a 10-minute TV programme for … Continue reading ‘migrating democrazy’ at Manifesta8<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":184,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[43,44,45,46,10],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reneeridgway.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reneeridgway.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reneeridgway.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reneeridgway.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reneeridgway.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/reneeridgway.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":374,"href":"https:\/\/reneeridgway.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions\/374"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reneeridgway.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reneeridgway.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reneeridgway.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reneeridgway.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}