Moving Borders

The project Moving Borders is a cooperative effort by seven European production houses, festivals and public bodies in the sphere of the performing arts and is co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union. During the project duration of two years, seven editions of one artistic concept, ARK by the british artist group Quarantine, will be run in Athens, Dresden, Mülheim an der Ruhr, Porto, Strasbourg, Utrecht and Warsaw – in collaboration with local artists, creatives and citizens and adapted to the individual local demographic, historic, cultural and social realities.

The participative joint project aims at examining the term “borders” and its manifestations in our contemporary European societies, with a special attention to various borders that are unceasingly reappearing in social, cultural and economic contexts. At a time of a dangerous resurgence of nationalist and xenophobic tendencies in Europe and of increasing economic inequalities, we would like to address the phenomenon of borders that are present on our everyday paths: as a divisive element that prevents people from reaching out to each other and that fosters inequality, but also as a constitutive basis for successful diverse communities in which mutual respect and recognition only become possible by drawing lines – even by marking the boundaries of free expression.

Co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the EU