[spectre] BLACKBENZ RACE l.i.v.e.

[krcf]

TESTCASES: BLACKBENZ RACE
The Inauguration Parade: Schiphol-The Hague-Rotterdam
Friday 13.4.07, 20h
waiting-for-the-start at: William Boothlaan 8, Rotterdam
live with: Bim Bimma (.NR.), rapper Pristina
view at: http://blog.blackbenz.ch

BlackBenz Race (BBR) is a semi-fictitious car 
race throughout Europe with a convoy of black Mercedes cars.
The race traces and makes visible the translocal 
space produced by Kosovo-Albanian migration across Europe.
BBR explores the intersection of public spheres 
and migrant networks by using the metaphor of the (illegal) car race.
The ‘Black Benz’ represents both a status symbol, 
and a symbol of the mobility that is inherent in migrant culture.
The site of that mobility is the corridor along 
which the cars travel, from Pristina and Tirana 
to Zurich, Rotterdam, or London.
The Black Benz is both a tool and a symbol, a 
vehicle for trading and trafficking of people and goods, as well as a
sign of economic success. Within street racing, 
many of these different readings are collapsed, often under the sensationalist
gaze of the mass media.The project is located in 
the field of tension between the emotionally charged metaphor of the race
(with its allusions to swift, uninterrupted 
passage through space) and the realities of 
moving through socio-political space full
  of visible and invisible barriers, detours and unexpected encounters.

DEAF Festival Rotterdam, The evening of Knowbotic Research, RO Theater
Guests in Rotterdam: Sezgin Boynik, sociologist 
Pristina/Istanbul, Bim Bimma (.NR.), rapper Pristina
krcf in collaboration with:
Live-Video: Gabriel Sandru, Re-blog: Fabian 
Vögeli, Silvan Zurbruegg, Context: Felix Stalder, 
moderation: Andreas Broeckmann


Upcoming:
TRANSLOCAL PRACTICES
Workshop: Institute for Art and Media Zurich, 4.6 - 7.6.07
invited: John Palemesino, Multiplicity/Teddy 
Cruz; Ursula Biemann/Carles Guerra,
Sean Snyder/Burkhard Meltzer; Rimini 
Protokoll/Jochen Becker; Pelin Tan/K.H. Klopf
organized by knowbotic research, felix stalder, fabian voegeli
http://www.translocal-practices.net/

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