Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art

Museum Of Modern And Contemporary Art 1 CHANGE BETWEEN AND MOBILITY SOCIAL CONTROL TRANS FORMA TION RISK 2 3 CHANGE ART/ INTERDIS PROJECT CIPLINARY RISK CHANGE RISK 4 5 CHANGE RISK 6 7 CHANGE Between Mobility Control and Social Transformation — Art/Interdisciplinary Project Risk Change Introduction Migration Is a Natural Law, Everything Moves, Everybody Migrates 20 RISK 8 9 CHANGE I Foreigner, Refugee, Citizen, II Along the Roads of Multiculturalism Tourist — Europe as a Space of Towards Spatial Detachment — Inhospitality Claustrophobia of Modern Cities Željko Senković Barabara Matejčić & Drago Župarić-Iljić Migrations, the Question of Hospitality Rijeka as a Multicultural City: Research and the Politics of Friendship Results from the Project Risk Change 30 96 Ksenija Orelj & Sabina Salamon Irena Bekić & Duga Mavrinac It Would Actually Be Crazy to Stay Here* Temporary Migrations: Migrant (Self) Risk Change exhibitions representations and Artistic Strategies 44 of Subjectivization 106 C. J. Stephens A Psychological Journey into Otherness Igor Petričević 56 From Transit to Settlement, Between Compassion and Xenophobia: Negotiating Marijana Hameršak & Iva Pleše the New Diversity Inside and Around Hotel Notes on Ethnographic Research in the Porin in Zagreb Winter Reception and Transit Center in 118 the Republic of Croatia 66 RISK 10 11 CHANGE III Do the Balkans Belong to Europe? IV Risk Change Dossier — The Issue of Political and Social Integration on Europe’s Margins Dragan Markovina Between There and There: The Mediterranean and the Balkans at Anatomy of Temporary Migrations the Gate of Fortress Europe 169 134 Black Disguises Manuela Bojadžijev 182 “The Shortest Way into the World” — Migration, Civil Rights and the EU in the Escape States of Former Yugoslavia, a Reply after 200 Fifteen Years 144 We’re Not Like Them 220 Sabina Salamon Third Is Possible — Reminiscences and Translation of texts Oral Tradition as Personal Baggage in the 242 Processes of Cultural Displacement 154 Authors’ biographies 310 RISK 12 13 CHANGE RISK 14 15 CHANGE MIGRAT IONS A NATURAL LAW: ARE RISK 16 17 CHANGE EVERY THING EVERY MOVES, BODY MIGRATES RISK 18 19 CHANGE Ksenija Orelj & Sabina Salamon The book in front of you was created as the epilogue of Risk Change, the project that over the past four years explored the topic of migrations and movement control. Following the mot- to of the project, “Migrations are a natural law. Everything moves, everybody migrates” it aims to spark discussions about (im)pos- sibilities of today’s mobility. It investigates the extremes of modern society: mobility, multiculturality and cooperation on the one hand, and exile, border control and exclusion on the other. This book was created on an intersection of anthro- pology, social psychology, art and curatorial practices. It gathered theorists and practitioners of different profiles, mainly the protag- onists of previous Risk Change exhibitions and symposiums. Pro- viding fresh commentaries on social and migrant politics, cultural practices and migration processes, it encourages an exchange of experiences and perspectives with the audience and the pub- lic. Compiled of different texts, from case studies and ethnographic and anthropological field reports to curatorial contributions and historical and philosophical essays, it seeks to prove that migrations are a universal principle. The content of the book covers the topics of Risk Change exhibitions, from the issue of temporary migrations (“Between There and There: the Anatomy of Temporary Migrations”, 2016), forced migrations and people’s troubles in gaining foothold in the times of fragile security (“Black Disguises”, 2017), escape as a way of obstructing the control of movement (“Escape”, 2018), and the issue of forming judgements about the foreigner and the Other (“We’re Not Like Them”, 2019). The emphasis is placed on the risks that exist in restricted social circumstances, where struggles for survival and protection of personal life are accompanied with pains of adaptation and fruitless attempts at togetherness. “Be- tween Movement Control and Social Changes – Art/Interdiscipli- nary Project Risk Change” combines the elements of a cultural study on (in)hospitality of modern Europe stereotypes and an artistic satire on social landscape built on myths of superiority, RISK 20 21 CHANGE imperial history and an obsession with control and purity that the usual traps in recognition of the Other, disguised in adminis- arises from the fear of the Other and the unknown. trative, legal, social, cultural and psychological phraseology. Preoccupied with local experience and extensive po- The closing chapter of the book is called “Do the Bal- litical destabilization, we were writing this book on the intersec- kans Belong to Europe? – the Issue of Political and Social Inte- tion of official history and forgotten stories, which are scattered gration on Europe’s Margins”. The texts of Dragan Markovina, somewhere between the abandoned model of social state and Manuela Bojadžijev and Sabina Salamon speak about the expe- its globalized version that offers poor legal guarantees. With pho- rience from the borders of the Balkan and the Mediterranean to documentation of Risk Change project (pictures of the exhib- world, pervaded with nationalist divisions that camouflage the ited artworks and documentary materials), the book covers the real economic situation. By posing the question “what has hap- topics of migrations, labor and economy. It deals with the issue pened with Europe without borders?”1, they investigate the alter- of borders and their reinforcement – in territorial, administrative natives to the growing xenophobia and social discrimination. and legal sense – which is particularly expressed in the first chapter Faced with defeat by the idea of supranational community and “Foreigner, Refugee, Citizen, Tourist – Europe as a Space of In- surrounded with multicultural flags that often serve only a cos- hospitality”. The writings of Željko Senković, Ksenija Orelj & Sabina metic role, there is not much to do, except ponder the possibil- Salamon, C. J. Stephens, Marijana Hameršak & Iva Pleše reflect ity of a united front which, instead of engaging in cultural narra- on the ‘me vs. others’ division and analyze the strained relation- tives, would affirm universal civil rights, along with social and ships to the Other, which manifest through strict control system, economic rights. Art practices, the key medium of Risk Change exclusion and rejection. The contributions engage in a study of a project, pursue this goal. They abandon the official ways of re- foreigner, a refugee – a (non)citizen – in the era characterized by cording history and, instead of presenting the deeply rooted ‘ob- a shift towards the right-wing politics and the abandonment of the jective’ truths, they choose compassion and solidarity as the only European liberal ideals in favor of political violence and pragmatism. valuable catalysts of change and the only means of escaping the The second chapter, “Along the Roads of Multicultur- claustrophobia of the present era sociability. Escape, as a gesture alism Towards Spatial Detachment – Claustrophobia of Modern of movement and an act of survival, arises from a lack of tolerance Cities” begins with a local research conducted as part of Risk toward the current state of affairs, but it also emerges as a priv- Change project. Along with the contributions by Barbara Matejčić ilege that enables us to run away in the first place. The harsher and Drago Župarić Iljić, it features the texts by Irena Bekić & Duga the measures of control, the more visible the escape will be. Mavrinac and Igor Petričević. By means of exploration and anal- ysis of the contemporary art practices, these writings reflect on the present issues of multiculturalism, which, in contrast to the 1 From the text of Dragan Markovina: “Mediterrane- assimilation model, should represent acknowledgement and pres- an and the Balkans at the ervation of cultural diversity. From an empirical and field work Gate of Fortress Europe” perspective, the texts also examine the current treatment of diversity and differences, notions that stand in opposition to the privileged (ethnical and national) integrity. Finally, they describe RISK 22 23 CHANGE I I RISK 24 25 CHANGE FOR EIGNER, REFUGEE, CITIZEN, TOURIST I RISK 26 27 CHANGE — AS A EUROPE SPACE OF INHOSPI TALITY I RISK 28 29 CHANGE The modern age, contrary to popular opinion, is the age of impossi- Željko Senković bility. The belated politics of identity, guided by the reawakened ide- alization of nations and the homeland collide with globalism guided by the neoliberal idea of rational corporate management. On the ac- Migrations, tual horizons, these two prevailing directions produce primarily an atmosphere of indifference and paradox, because the romantic con- sciousness is shown to be futile and premodern in the face of the the Question logic of capital. An individual, who in his (post)modern disorientation went a step further then the twenty-first century ‘mass man,’ because masses and massive depersonalization within ourselves is not even of Hospitality questionable, but is substituted by the vacuity of escapist experiences and entertainment, accepts new servile deifications. One of which is shown in the acceptance of the state as an opinion maker and an and the Politics instance with a delegated role of the protection and supervision of freedom and the Other. Therefore, if we can even talk today about a distinct

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