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PERFORMIGRATIONS - PEOPLE ARE THE TERRITORY
Start date: Apr 1, 2014,

Each immigrant is a performer: no matter the reason for the move, relocation forces one to adjust to a new territory and to play a new role. Therefore, the visible map is not the real territory; people are the territory, and they are mobile. They are an intricate territory made of stories and experiences. For this reason, EU is more than a geographical space: it is a space of storytelling transcending visible borders. Each time Europeans relocate inside or outside EU, they change their inner and outer landscapes because they are performing changes. Similarly, every time newcomers join the EU, the EU territory changes, too. Together, ICT & performative arts can help us to develop new ways to express our mobile selves/belonging, in turn mediating among different cultural heritages. Expanding this idea, Performigrations develops an interactive & performative art-installation to make visible the mobile territory created by the movements of people across EU, and between EU & Canada. More traditional forms of art integrated with new ICT will develop an accessible multimedia interactive platform that will use new geo-locative technologies to display old and new forms of storytelling. This interactive medley of words, images, sounds, and video- performances will connect territory with place and enable the construction of a communal narrative through the on-going addition of materials as the installation moves from location to location.A network of 16 high-profile EU/Canadian Institutions have created a joint venture to promote and implement this project; their goal is to consolidate a new approach to people’s storytelling and promote awareness of what brings us together as both Europeans and world citizens in spite of (or because of) cultural change. Web2.0 activities and customised cultural events will make the project accessible to online & live audiences alike, engaging people across the same mobile territory they contribute to moulding.

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