Border Thinking

Publication Series of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna VOLUME 21 Border Thinking Marina Gržinić (Ed.) Border Thinking Disassembling Histories of Racialized Violence Border Thinking Disassembling Histories of Racialized Violence Marina Gržinić (Ed.) Publication Series of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna Eva Blimlinger, Andrea B. Braidt, Karin Riegler (Series Eds.) VOLUME 21 On the Publication Series We are pleased to present the latest volume in the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna’s publication series. The series, published in cooperation with our highly committed partner Sternberg Press, is devoted to central themes of contemporary thought about art practices and theories. The volumes comprise contributions on subjects that form the focus of discourse in art theory, cultural studies, art history, and research at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and represent the quintessence of international study and discussion taking place in the respective fields. Each volume is published in the form of an anthology, edited by staff members of the academy. Authors of high international repute are invited to make contributions that deal with the respective areas of emphasis. Research activities such as international conferences, lecture series, institute- specific research focuses, or research projects serve as points of departure for the individual volumes. All books in the series undergo a single blind peer review. International reviewers, whose identities are not disclosed to the editors of the volumes, give an in-depth analysis and evaluation for each essay. The editors then rework the texts, taking into consideration the suggestions and feedback of the reviewers who, in a second step, make further comments on the revised essays. The editors—and authors—thus receive what is so rare in academia and also in art universities: committed, informed, and hopefully impartial critical feedback that can be used for finishing the work. We thank the editor of this volume, Marina Gržinić, for proposing this volume on “border thinking.” Migration, decolonial critique, and necropolitics (a line of discourse Gržinić has helped to shape over the last few years) have been central issues of much theoretical debate and artistic work at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna for a long time. In this volume, Gržinić brings together a heteroge- neous set of authors who deal with many different topics, ranging from the refugee movement in Austria, to the Tunisian Revolution, to the establishment of new borders in Turkey and Hungary. Moreover, this book links discussions of old and new borders with ideas originating from a specific subset of the “former east” (i.e., south-central Europe). We are deeply indebted to Gržinić, an artist and theorist who has been professor for conceptual art practices at the academy for many years and has always emphasized the importance of raising a critical voice, for her impeccable editorial work on this volume. We would also like to thank the authors for their commitment. As always, we are grateful to all the partners contributing to the book, especially Sternberg Press. The Rectorate of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna Eva Blimlinger, Andrea B. Braidt, Karin Riegler Contents Introduction: From Border Thinking to Striking the Border Marina Gržinić 12 Exposing Differential Inclusion of Syrian Refugees in Turkey Institutions of Migration Management and Temporary Protection Regulation Editor: Marina Gržinić Göksun Yazıcı 34 Editorial Coordinator: Martina Huber Proofreader: Niamh Dunphy Design: Tom Richter, Surface, Frankfurt am Main/Berlin Stream of Memory Cover image: Conceptualized by Marina Gržinić and realized by graffiti artist Rubia Salgado and Gergana Mineva, and das Kollektiv Women* 48 Balša, 2017 Printing: Holzhausen Druck GmbH, Wolkersdorf Binding: Buchbinderei Papyrus, Vienna Necropolitics in the East Stanimir Panayotov 60 ISBN 978-3-95679-383-7 © 2018 Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien, Sternberg Press All rights reserved, including the right of reproduction in whole or in part Set City—Post-snuff Film and the New Age of Reality in any form. Cinematography: Real Transience of the Protagonist at the Execution Film Set Sternberg Press Khaled Ramadan 70 Caroline Schneider Karl-Marx-Allee 78 D-10243 Berlin RESOURCE: IMMIGRATION? www.sternberg-press.com Betül Seyma Küpeli 80 Mobilization A Diva’s Dish Darling and You Wish You Had It Njideka Stephanie Iroh 178 Smarter Borders: Challenges and Limitations of Data-Driven Borders Fieke Jansen, Tactical Technology Collective 86 “Now, Little Ship, Look Out!” Suvendrini Perera 180 Borderless Global Public Sphere? Western and Southern News Media in Africa Musawenkosi Ndlovu 98 Demasking Transpositions: Jews, Roma, and Other Aliens in the What Does Freedom Stand for Today? Radical Right Culture in Hungary Jelena Petrović 108 Zoltán Kékesi 192 Human Dignity Is Violable: No Fundamental Diffractions at Borders Right to a Better Life! C.A.S.I.T.A. (Loreto Alonso, Eduardo Galvagni, Diego del Marika Schmiedt 122 Pozo Barriuso) in Conversation with Juan Guardiola 206 Racialized Dysphoria Politics of Fear Maira Enesi Caixeta 128 Neda Hosseinyar 218 (Dis)embodied Subjectivities and Technologies of Control Get Down To Aneta Stojnić 220 Border Bodies: Mixedness and Passing in Prison Break Shirley Anne Tate 138 A Stateless People against the State: The Kurdish Autonomy as a Limitation of Nation-State Power Çetin Gürer 232 Interrogating Silences: Crisis, Borders, and Decolonial Interferences Tjaša Kancler 152 Disconnecting Toward a Construction of the History of a (Dis)encounter Plus Ultra The Feminist Reason and the Antiracist and Decolonial Miguel González Cabezas 248 Agency in Abya Yala Yuderkys Espinosa Miñoso 164 Phantom Politics in Palestine-Israel: From Double Negation to Double Erasure Joshua Simon 250 The Russian Revolution in Dreams and Reality Ilya Budraitskis 264 Sarajevo, Rotten Heart of Europe Adla Isanović 272 Hiroshima, Fukushima, and Beyond: Borders and Transgressions in Nuclear Imagination Hiroshi Yoshioka 284 Appendix Image Credits 298 Biographies 300 Acknowledgments 306 Marina Gržinić 13 This book has a precise history. It was conceived in the Studio of Conceptual Art at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, which I renamed Post-conceptual Art Introduction Practices (PCAP) immediately after being appointed as a professor at the academy in 2003, to open up the intrinsic relationship between art and politics. At the start of the new semester in the winter of 2015, I posed a not-so-rhetorical question: Are we capable of pulling out a narrative that is close to a counter- history of the refugee movement in Austria, which started with the Refugee From Border Protest Camp in Vienna in 2012? It was politically necessary to pose this question, because in 2015 we had many students who were actively engaged with the Refugee Protest Camp in Vienna in 2012. They gave their time, ideas, engagement, empathy, and political convictions to the cause. In 2015 we also Thinking to had some refugees studying with us, including some who had entered the study program after being granted asylum. In addition, we had students from “third” countries (meaning students coming from countries outside of the European Union), that is, a pejorative description from the EU institutional frame Striking the when looking over the walls of its “fortress.” There were many different scholars who took part in the discussions, including art students, MA students in critical studies, doctoral candidates in philoso- phy, and post-doctoral researchers. Studying art in PCAP or being affiliated with Border the program means revealing the social and political line of contemporary art, where formally speaking the artwork can be a poem, text, or an image. What matters is that these works support and engage with antiracist, anti- Marina Gržinić homophobic, and anti-capitalist perspectives. It is important considering the border, both on the border and against the border. The Refugee Crisis as the Crisis of Fortress Europe Central to this book, Border Thinking, is the investigation of the refugee crisis in Europe that is increasingly presented as a crisis of European (and global) occidental capitalism, with its deadly structural racism, coloniality, disposses- sion, war, and oppressive social, political, and economic violence. In global neoliberal capitalism, borders seem to have disappeared, yet they are none- theless present through deportations, segregations, marginalization, and crimi- nalization. Therefore, the question is how to think about these relations and how much the act of thinking itself is bordered; or, to question if it is possible to develop a border thinking that will aim to radically transform the sociopolitical and economic logics of the border that segregate and ghettoize people, lives, practices, histories, and thoughts. These harsh ills are becoming visible with the increasing number of refugees escaping the proxy war in Syria; with the com- plete destruction of Iraq and Libya, two states that were functional and 14 Introduction Marina Gržinić 15 secular and that currently suffer from militias, terrorists, and the deaths of to understand accurately with the old, modernist, or even postmodernist con- civilians who are killed by the thousands, and where the only “secure enclaves” cepts of agency, community, and democracy. are the capitalist multinational “oases” for wild extractions of oil safeguarded by private military mercenaries. The outcome is that millions of people are It is clear that in order to encircle

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