Project Borders is a multi platform interactive project focusing on personal stories across physical borders. It has been presented in articles and exhibitions and will be presented, and interacted with, in global and local workshops, a mobile phone application and an interactive website. The heart of the project will be live interactive exhibitions shown at every day border crossings such as train stations, airports, city squares and markets. Above are montage pictures of what these future exhibitions could look like and the story we want to tell.
The project is based on a participatory approach. In the final presentation of the material, but importantly also in the collecting and continuous creation of the project itself. We want participants and users to help us define what borders are, where they are and how we interpret them. We provide the platform, users, participants and border crossers fill it with content and meaning.
Why is it?
The project started with a fascination for those lines in the ground that separates “them” from “us”. We are not judgmental about the lines, but we are very curious. How did they happen? And how do they influence us? What does it mean to cross or be close to a border? Who has the authority to change borders and why? Are borders real or imagined?
Who makes this?
Christo de Klerk Website @mujalifah
Christo is practicing a mash-up method of multimodal scholarship, he produces projects that examine the relationship of media to place and memory. He also is a business analyst and web applications developer for a worldwide balloon delivery company. Christo is a South African born Canadian who calls Seattle home. He holds a BA in History and International Relations from Trinity Western University and is now pursuing an MA in Media Studies at The New School in New York.
Marcus Haraldsson Website Resume (pdf)
Marcus is a Swedish journalist, photographer, author, travel guide and media producer that has covered stories for newspapers, magazines, broadcast media, exhibitions and a book from more than 20 countries and lived and worked in China, Costa Rica, South Africa, USA and Sweden. He has a Masters degree in Peace and Conflict Studies from Uppsala University and is now a Fulbright Scholar in International Political Journalism at Columbia University in New York.