In what might be one of the most important interventions in music programming for years, and what will be a challenge to the (in)security and (in)sensibility of European immigration regimes Clandestino Festival presents Border Reverb. Joining forces with the Creativity Beyond Borders Network from the Centre for Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths University of London, Clandestino brings a number of key figures together to rethink the Border and its politics.
Workshops and talks will offer challenges to restrictive immigration laws and practices and the ways these intersect with creativity, performance and artistic and musical opposition. Border Reverb will include keynote presentations by Eyal Weizman, Julian Henriques, Abhijit Roy and Rangan Chakravorty. The five-day session will begin with a special evening event on Tuesday, 8 June 2010, with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak in conversation with John Hutnyk.
Border Reverb will examine the after effects of immigration and asylum policy, border and visa regulation and security surveillance, as well as ways in which activists, artists and musicians have engaged with border politics worldwide.
The Border Reverb workshops is accompanied by a video art screening by Erik Rosshagen, Marcus Öhrn & Maria Mogren + Ashley L Wong, Raul Gschrey, Helen Turner and Moustache Collectif curated by Benoit Loiseau & Joanna Figiel of the LDN/BRU network.