Border Thinking Anthology Examines Racialized Violence and Refugee Protests Through Decolonial Lens
Released in 2018 by Sternberg Press, the collection *Border Thinking: Disassembling Histories of Racialized Violence* originated from a 2015 studio art initiative led by Marina Gržinić at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. It explores the 2012 refugee protest camp in Vienna against the backdrop of the European migration crisis, scrutinizing borders as both physical barriers and conceptual constraints. The anthology features insights from Göksun Yazici on Turkey's EU migration policies, Stanimir Panayotov discussing necropolitics in Central Eastern Europe, and Khaled Ramadan analyzing ISIS execution footage. Additionally, Betül Seyma Küpeli and Esra Özmen critique the consumption of refugee imagery. The book's sections deconstruct the genealogies of racialized violence and contextualize race within the framework of neoliberal global capitalism.
Key facts
- Border Thinking was published in 2018 by Sternberg Press as Volume 21 of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna's Publication Series
- The project originated in 2015 from Marina Gržinić's Post-Conceptual Art Practices studio at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
- It responds to the 2012 refugee protest camp in Vienna that lasted several years
- The book contains five sections: Exposing, Mobilization, Get Down To, Demasking, and Disconnecting
- Contributors include scholars and artists from diverse geographical contexts addressing racialized violence
- Key concepts explored include necropolitics, colonial aphasia, racial flesh, and data-driven borders
- The anthology examines both physical borders like Ceuta/Melilla and epistemological borders in European thought
- It positions border thinking as a method to transgress the limitations of Eurocentric epistemology
Entities
Artists
- Marina Gržinić
- Rubia Salgado
- Gergana Mineva
- Göksun Yazici
- Stanimir Panayotov
- Khaled Ramadan
- Betül Seyma Küpeli
- Esra Özmen
- Fieke Jansen
- Musawenkosi Ndlovu
- Jelena Petrović
- Marika Schmiedt
- Maira Enesi Caixeta
- Shirley Ann Tate
- Tjaša Kancler
- Yuderkys Espinoza Miñoso
- Njideka Stephanie Iroh
- Suvendrini Perera
- Zoltán Kékesi
- Juan Guardiola
- Loreto Alonso
- Eduardo Galvagni
- Diego del Pozo Barriuso
- Neda Hosseinyar
- Aneta Stojnić
- Çetin Gürer
- Abdullah Öcalan
- Miguel González Cabezas
- Joshua Simon
- Ilya Budraitskis
- Adla Isanović
- Hiroshi Yoshioka
- Brian Carr
- Ann Laura Stoler
- Achille Mbembe
- Moaz al-Kasasbeh
- Joseph Puglisese
Institutions
- Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
- Sternberg Press
- ARTMargins Online
- Tactical Technology Collective
- Venice Biennale of Architecture
- Austrian Federal Ministry of Interior
- Spanish Army Geographical Service
- C.A.S.I.T.A.
- European Union
Locations
- Vienna
- Austria
- Berlin
- Germany
- Ljubljana
- Slovenia
- Turkey
- Lesbos
- Greece
- Lampedusa
- Italy
- Jordan
- Venice
- Ceuta
- Spain
- Melilla
- Morocco
- Africa
- United States
- United Kingdom
- Eastern Europe
- Latin America
- Abya Yala
- Hungary
- Palestine
- Israel
- Russia
- Sarajevo
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Fukushima
- Japan
- Hiroshima
- Mediterranean Sea