Borders and Territories: Identity in Place
Thursday, 22 March 2018

A Lab Talk to kick off the new ANCB Enquiry Programme Borders and Territories: Identity in Place with Theo Deutinger, Annett Zinsmeister, Ai Weiwei and Lukas Feireiss

Part 1 - Introduction and Presentation Theo Deutinger

Welcome and Introduction
Hans-Jürgen Commerell, Director, ANCB The Aedes Metropolitan Laboratory, Berlin - 00:00:00 - 00:04:04
Lukas Feireiss, Director „Radical Cut-Up“ Sandberg Instituut, Amsterdam - 00:04:05 - 00:09:51

Presentation
Theo Deutinger, Architect, Author of Handbook of Tyranny, Salzburg/Amsterdam - 00:10:31 - 00:32:05
'Handbook of Tyranny' portrays the routine cruelties of the twenty-first century through a series of detailed non-fictional graphic illustrations. None of these cruelties represent extraordinary violence - they reflect day-to-day implementation of laws and regulations around the globe.

Part 2 - Podium Discussion

Podium Discussion
Annett Zinsmeister, Artist, Berlin
In her work, Annett Zinsmeister focuses on the intersection of art, architecture, and cultural studies. She creates large-scale installations, conceptual and built spaces, photography, drawings, films and collages as well as texts.
Ai Weiwei, Artist, Berlin
Ai Weiwei's film 'Human Flow' gives a powerful visual expression to this massive human migration. In his project 'Good fences make good neighbors', the artist uses architecture and sculpture to jostle New Yorkers into recognition of the current sociopolitical environment, both locally and abroad.
Theo Deutinger, Architect, Author of Handbook of Tyranny, Salzburg/Amsterdam
'Handbook of Tyranny' portrays the routine cruelties of the twenty-first century through a series of detailed non-fictional graphic illustrations. None of these cruelties represent extraordinary violence - they reflect day-to-day implementation of laws and regulations around the globe.
Theo Deutinger: Handbook of Tyranny, Lars Müller Publishers, 2018, 160 pages, ISBN 978-3-03778-534-8

Moderator
Lukas Feireiss, Director „Radical Cut-Up“ Sandberg Instituut, Amsterdam

BORDERS AND TERRITORIES: IDENTITY IN PLACE
This ANCB Enquiry Programme aims to examine new spatial, geopolitical and cultural possibilities related to nations and people on our globe. In this discourse, ANCB considers identity as a spatial problem caught between territorial claims and today’s global dynamics. Concepts of dividing and connecting are vital to address the question what is or makes territories that are defined (1) physically/politically, (2) by culture and ways of thinking and (3) by common interests such as economy. This includes the investigation of borders of different qualities – from physical divisions, 'rurban' situations and political frontiers of countries and states to invisible boundaries between disciplines and social or cultural borders. We will also ask how the less quantifiable aspects of perception and heritage of place, including narrative, memory and the transit space of the border itself, might be interpreted and reflected. By crossing the 'border' to various disciplines, the programme aims to stimulate a discourse on the evaluation of space and its political and social dimensions.

This first event served as an introduction to the programme. To display the full scope of the current development with regards to territories, cultural borders, identities and geopolitical corridors, protagonists from different disciplines discussed key aspects of their motivation, work and positions.