Weve been accepted! Finally a big and wholehearted YES! to an application! Over more than six weeks next year we will have a Bordr interactive exhibition at one of the coolest big museums in all of New York City, and probably the world! Queens Museum, November 14 - December 31, 2015 - Here we go! More information and details to follow! But this is a big one. Four years ago, over beers in a staircase at a student film screening at Parsons in New York, Christo de Klerk and I found each other on the concept of border-stories. We had one of those moments of deep mutual thinking, and connection. We cheered and gave ourselves a reasonable deadline to combine, test, and build on our ideas, experiences, skills, and methods into a local- global connected worldwide exhibition of self-told stories, digital and analogue. It would be a place where people would actively participate and shape the content, and see unexpected similarities with others. It would be a try at connecting human values as we all relate to borders, as we are all migrants. We figured December 2015, then five years into the future, would be a good time to launch the New York part. It would be the end of something, and the start of something else. Its been a lot of work over those four years after that staircase talk, tons of weekly breakfasts, dozens of projects and workshops in local communities and contexts across the world, iterations, trials and errors, and dozens of failed (and some successful) applications, thousands of small and big lessons. Most of the work remains, but we are back on schedule! We now have a New York launch in December 2015! Just as planned. Partnering with the very amazing museum that helped us shape a lot of our current concepts while lending voices to migrants traveling to five continents in Project Borders Queens in 2011-2012. It is the most down to earth, inclusive, and community oriented mammoth museum around, with the coolest staff, in the most diverse part of a very diverse city. At the former seat of the United Nations General Assembly, Flushing Meadows, Corona Park, Queens, New York. Phew. And now we also have a very real team to build this inclusively on equal terms! Adding Shriya Malhotra, Erik Johan Faxgard, and Chrissie Faniadis, the board of Bordr. This will be good! Let the discussions continue! Connecting onwards! Cheers! en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queens_Museum
Posted on: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 14:37:09 +0000
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