Exterritory is a non-profit project that strives to create a platform for knowledge production and exchange in an autonomous space, temporarily free from grounding national restraints. The project was initiated by artists, curators and scholars who believe that utopia exists only without a permanent place and as a constantly dynamic journey. The project wishes to become a platform in transit, sailing on ex-territorial waters and providing space for critical thinking and production in various fields of art and culture.
The practice of Exterritory is mainly based on bringing together artists and scholars who wish to rethink geo-political stipulations and conventions in a non-national space. Exterritory will take form as on-sea events and on the Internet Website. By sailing on ex-territorial waters, we wish to create a space that bypasses the laws of territory and nationality and thus enables temporary emancipation from limiting social interpellations.Exterritory attempts to create an alternative situation for encounter, research, discussion and art-making and to generate a network of intellectual and professional connections that surpasses national politics and social hierarchies.
The main agenda of Exterritory is to create an open structure for thought that concentrates on exploring the notion of Exterritory in various fields of knowledge. We hope that this unstable, flux and dynamic notion will become both a catalyst and a tool for critically reflecting upon culture’s discriminating geographies, while potentially setting up enclaves of (temporary) freedom.
Exterritory is a project initiated by artists, curators, and scholars who wish to rethink geo-political conventions in a non-national space. Taking to the sea on board three vessels the first Exterritory event will take place in the Mediterranean Sea from June 17-21, 2010. The project is a constantly dynamic journey, a platform in transit, exploring various non-nationalized spaces in order to generate a network of intellectual and professional connections that surpasses national politics and social hierarchies.
Leaving from the shores of Israel and stopping in Cyprus, the two-dozen participants on board three boats will present curated programs that examine the notion of ex-territory in various mediums such as performance, installation, video, and sound. Some of the works will be site-specific and utilize marine equipment (broadcasts over marine radio), boat parts (such as video projection on sails), boat choreography, floater-view-art, and messages in bottles. On-board discussions and panels will be streamed online.
Initiated in 2009 by artists/curators Ruti Sela and Maayan Amir as a response to the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian political conflict, Exterriroty wishes to bring together artists and thinkers from conflict areas, who can hold reconcilliation meetings usually under the auspices of third countries, mainly in Europe and the USA. The project aims to create a different location both mentally and geographically: a floating platform for inter-cultural exchange outside the sovereign territory of any specific country.
Historically, the distance separating territory from exterritory is the length of a cannon shot. Symbolically, if weapons define territory, exterritory commences where the power of weapons has no domain. Exterritory is the space between nations, as well as between cultures, between the subject and a sum of enacted ideological interpolations.
Exterritory Project – Event #117-21 June, Mediterranean ex-territorial waters
Featuring Works by: Christos Andreou,Nadia Awad ,Magdiel Aspillaga ,Jose Ballavian ,Mirelle Borra, Josephin Boettger, Tina Gverovic, Barbara Halali, Constanze Vogt, Denis Venturelli, Mikhail Kharikis, Adrian Lee, Mladen Miljanovic, Anne Maniglier, Dauglas Paulson, Raquel Schwartz, Amy Sharrocks ,Cheng-Ta Yo, TBA , Jedsada Tangtrakulwong, Sarah Wood, Adrian Sina, Brad Butler and Karen Mirza, Hovhannes Margaryan, Yoshoa Okon, Yiannos Oikonomou, Demetrios Roussos, Rodrigo Rada,Paul Ramirez Jonas Luis Garcinga y Javier Castro, Devis venturelli, 242 Costas Mantzalos and Costantinos Kounnis
Featuring Curated Programs by: Klista Antoniou, Rael Artel, Ulrich Horstmann, Margareta Kern, Chen Tamir, Agatha Wara & María Schneider
Creators of the project :Ruti Sela and Maayan Amir
For more information please visithttp://exterritory-project.org/ or email info@exterritory-project.org