Friday, February 29, 2008

Concept of exhibition “WORK IN MOTION – migration, mobility and labour”:

The industrial revolutions set man in motion again after agriculture had made him settle down.

Farmers and farm workers moved into the cities to find a better life there. (Im)migrant workers came a long way, giving up their roots and homelands to find wealth by working in an industrial nation. Some industrial countries even invited them over since they were in need of more workers.

Through this process of migration, foreigners and their religions and ideas join a nation, and they have to be accepted, sometimes controlled and at best integrated in a productive way. Migration has always been a part of European history.

Alamidis contribution to this exhibition Greek identity cards of the 40's.

Thursday, February 21, 2008

Your Documents Please

Invitation to Exhibition

International Bureau of Identity Documentation (ibid)*
Prospectus 08.4.4-ID:

Your Documents Please

International Identification Document Exhibition Opening April 2008

In an insecure world of fallible people with fallible ideas and ideologies, ibid invites you to submit an application to use the UNBRIDLED POWER of your ART to create (in suitable format as stipulated below) a Vital Document for purposes (known and unknown) of identification, emigration, immigration and imagination in an exhibition to be transported Internationally to several locations.

We ask that you think of this endeavor both as an opportunity to identify yourself (or not) and as a venue to vent and vet the veritable forms and permits bestowed locally on citizens (documented and undocumented) of the world in embassies, municipalities and other bureaucratic institutions around the globe by making a Document of Identification your way. Nevertheless, it is not our intent to prejudice the content of your ID for it is clear that in this context virtually any presentation–visual, textual, textural or otherwise–must be considered a valid form of identification.

The exhibition of artist made documents will take place in: