All posts tagged: Migration

Portrait von Melisa Erkurt | Illustration: ©Silke Müller

Melisa Erkurt

„Generation Haram“ ist das Buch der Journalistin @melisaerkurt über das sie mit Beatrice Frasl im Interview spricht. Und natürlich über die neu gegründete @die_chefredaktion und Chancengleichheit und -ungleichheit in der Schule und im Journalismus.

The search for a safe harbour – Kristallin #33 Ausstellung

Das EXPOrt-geförderte Projekt „The search for a safe harbour“ wird bei kristallin#33 bis zum 10. Juni 2016 im Salzamt ausgestellt. OPENING MI, 11. 5. 2016, 19 Uhr Ausstellungsdauer: 11. 5. – 10. 6. 2016 Die Ausstellung wird von Kulturdirektor Dr. Julius Stieber eröffnet. The search for a safe harbour Silke Müller (Germany | Austria) resided in Klaipeda | Lithuania from Sept 6th to 30th 2014. She was taking part in an artist-in-residence programme as well as participating in the project “Travel Agency” at KCCC in Klaipeda. The illustrator spent a year on “the search for a safe harbour”. As a European 
citizen she tried to find 26 + 1 position marks between public and private 
concerning the idea of “free mobility” among and besides the European Union.

The search for a safe harbour – Ausstellung

Exhibition 24.9. – 19.10.2014 One year in “The search for a safe harbour”, the calling port Klaipeda is in this moment my current location. As European citizen I tried to find 26 + 1 positioning marks between public and private concerning the idea of free mobility among and besides the European Union. With drawing and collecting an illustrated research I want to touch a position on a map, where so-called Western humanity and privileges are setting horrifying borders. Europe is not the heartbeat of humanity * On October, 3rd, 2013 was a day for crying. An Libyan migrant ship, on voyage from Misurata, Lybia to Lampedusa (Italy) with about 500 Eritrean and Somalian migrants, lost power, caught fire and sank after capsizing. 1 1/2 nm away from the safe harbour of the European island Lampedusa, 1/2 nm before the shore of Isola dei Conigli (Rabbit Isalnd). Most of the poor passengers have paid between $8,000 and $12,000 dollars for the transfer to Europe. 366 people drowned. They could see land. 155 people survived the disaster. …

Artist in Residence at Klaipėda

After three days of travelling from home port Linz I started working at the temporary studio in the port of call Klaipėda/Lithuania. 21 hours crossing the Baltic Sea by ferry was a sunny, windy adventure. Not coincidently this hanseatic destination was chosen, I‘ll do a documentation for KCCCs „Travel Agency“ and drawings, information graphics an research for the exhibition “The search for a safe harbour”. Project ″Travel Agency″: „The residents involved in ″Travel Agency″ are suggested to reflect on the Klaipeda region and the city, to write diaries and keep their ″route accounting″, which equates the residency to travel agency engaging in cultural journeys. (…)“ The working process is documented in a tumblr. If you are near by, come for coffee, the studio is right in the centre of the town. Luckly very close to the Old Ferry Harbour: Baznyciu gatve 4. It belongs to the generous KCCC, the Kulturu Komunikaciju Centras. more: kulturpolis article project tumblr LinzEXPOrt is a funding program of the City of Linz for artists to enable experimental and processual work in …