Borders and Territories

Introduction

This ANCB Enquiry Programme aims to examine new spatial, geopolitical and cultural possibilities related to nations and people on our globe. In this discourse, ANCB considers identity as a spatial problem caught between territorial claims and today’s global dynamics. Concepts of dividing and connecting are vital to address the question what is or makes territories that are defined (1) physically/politically, (2) by culture and ways of thinking and (3) by common interests such as economy. This includes the investigation of borders of different qualities – from physical divisions, ‘rurban’ situations and political frontiers of countries and states to invisible boundaries between disciplines and social or cultural borders. We will also ask how the less quantifiable aspects of perception and heritage of place, including narrative, memory and the transit space of the border itself, might be interpreted and reflected. By crossing the ‘border’ to various disciplines, the programme aims to stimulate a discourse on the evaluation of space and its political and social dimensions.

This first event served as an introduction to the programme. To display the full scope of the current development with regards to territories, cultural borders, identities and geopolitical corridors, protagonists from different disciplines discussed key aspects of their motivation, work and positions.

Events

• #1 Identity in Place, 22 March 2018
• #2 Spatial Representations of Connections and Disconnections, 27 September 2018

In collaboration with:
creative industries fund NL
Lars Müller Publishers