BLACKMARKET FOR USEFUL KNOWLEDGE AND NON-KNOWLEDGE

"Routes and Sites of Mobility Pioneers and Functionaries"
An Installation with 100 Experts by Hannah Hurtzig

Blackmarket, March 2007, Photos: Fabian Larsson

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afterwards Party DANCE THE MOBILITY! with DJ İmran Ayata


100 experts put together a collection of lexicalized entries for a an encyclopedia that fragments, mirrors, and hallucinates the theme of mobility. Stories, theories, documentations, and myths are included in this collection; mobility is presented in its current interpretational contexts, rendering recognizable various migration and immigration systems, the new nomadism, and hybrid metropolitan ways of life.

The Blackmarket thereby narrates the themes and conditions of the protagonists of hybrid identities who regularly cross national borders, traversing and leaving behind them territories, jobs, and lifestyles, bravely eluding the state’s will to order and locate them, or precisely fulfilling the demands of the internationalization of global labor markets as siteless, transitory existences. Stories are also told of the checkpoints and the resistance accompanying the culture of mobility when one is the wrong person in the wrong place.

Blackmarket, March 2007, Photo: Fabian Larsson

A broad spectrum of patterns, figures, types, and phenomena of mobility finds entry in the narrated encyclopedia of this night:
The early forms of labor migration in the 1960s. The frequently traveling business citizens of the world with laptop, cell phone, and polyglot flexibility – the nomadic autistic mobility elite.

The current transmigration characterized by a free-floating state of living and working in several places at the same time. The temporary commuting traffic as a form of motion intended to ensure that a feeling of home is maintained. Population shifts and fleeing due to emergencies. The criminalization of migration. And of course the type of the artist as entrepreneurial individual who, in self-determined self-exploitation, appropriates commissions, formats, and contexts and reformats them in ever-new, inventive forms of organization of work, lifestyle, and social responsibility.

Check In, Photo: Fabian Larsson

The Blackmarket is held in the framework of the festival BEYOND BELONGING - AUTOPUT AVRUPA. It collects its stories and theories along the Autoput, the old transit route through the former Yugoslavia, the most important transportation route from Central to Southeastern Europe, the mythical guest worker route for the first generation of migrant workers in Germany. But it also takes a few detours and deviations from the route to create a truly hallucinatory set of concepts of mobility.

Dr. Joseph Weizenbaum, Photo: Fabian Larsson