BIAŁO_REC is a live audio-visual lecture-performance using a set of smartphone images which chronicle two research trips to the border region of Poland and Belarus. The images document the residue of the charged environment of Bialowieza forest in Poland—a site of fragile, natural habitats, which also acts as a hostile, militarised environment for people on the move. By projecting, scaling and filtering a selection from these images, the artists try to navigate, interrogate, and reflect—from a distance—on this border area, highly defined by international migration and other geopolitical issues.

Can images help us to engage with the (experiential world of) people on the move—whom we do not see? Can the format of the lecture-performance be a medium to shine light on them. Can it bear witness and try to give voice to the people at the centre of a significant ongoing humanitarian crisis at one of the external borders of Europe (EU)? Can it be a useful tool to start a dialogue and enable a more enlarged form of engagement?

Duration: 25′

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Presentations:

International conference and exhibition “Agents of Concern: Images and Empathy”
Date: 18 November 2023
Location: PXL-MAD Gallery, Hasselt (BE)

More info: Agents of Concern

Dublin Art Book Fair (DABF ’23)
Date: 08 December 2023
Location: Temple Bar Gallery and Studios, Dublin (IE)

More info: DABF 2023