Police Brutality in the Detention Center of Lyubimets (Bulgaria)
The detention center of Lyubimets (Любимец), a Bulgarian city close to the Turkish and Greek border, was already in our focus [1, 2, 3] in the month of August, when 25 migrants held a hunger strike to...
View ArticleOn Light and Shadow: Impressions from a (Re-)Positions Visitor
Carmel is a scholar from the University of South Australia. She is doing her research in Bulgaria and attended one of the events at the Red House in Sofia. She wrote a short vignette that ist...
View ArticleCritical Modes of Mapping: Transborder Map / MigMap
Very fortunately, our work as researchers, activists and artists doesn’t solely consist in talking about repression and control – it’s about effective resistance, too! This is nicely reflected in the...
View ArticlePolitical Context: The Situation of Refugees in Bulgaria
The refugees’ dwelling in the abandoned building across the State Agency for Refugees, where the graffiti studied in the course of this project are located, is hardly to be attributed to a “lack of...
View ArticleWalls: Mirrors of society?
If one is to consider that „every artist is interested in walls because they mirror and are part of our society“, as the Turkish artist Burhan Doğançan said, we – as activists – should pay even more...
View ArticleEvent: (Re-) Positions @ Movements of Migration, Göttingen, 11.03.2013
11.03., MO 20H, KUNSTVEREIN: MONTAGSSALON RE-POSITIONS: DAS EUROPÄISCHE GRENZREGIME UND SEINE EFFEKTE Migrationspolitik ist schon lange nicht mehr (nur) nationalstaatliche Angelegenheit. Mit der EU...
View ArticleEvent: (Re-)Positions @ Events – Routes – Transitions – Barriers, Sofia,...
Events – Routes – Transitions – Barriers The Red House, ulitsa Lyuben Karavelov 15, Sofia 24 April (Wednesday) 2013, 6.30 p.m. – opening 25 April–10 May , every day between 3.00 and 7.00 p.m., except...
View ArticleEvent: (Re-)Positions @ festival contre le racisme, Passau, 08.05.-12.05.2013
Wir haben im letzten Jahr mit der Idee begonnen, Themen an die Universität Passau zu bringen, die kontrovers diskutiert werden. Themen, die in unseren Augen mehr Raum in einer öffentlichen Diskussion...
View ArticleDaily Struggles, Common Fights – ‘Contre le racisme’
‘Contre le racisme’ was the title of the anti-racist festival that took place from the 8th to the 12th of May in the small Bavarian city Passau. Just a week after the closing of the autonomous center...
View ArticleInterview: The Situation in the Pastrogor Transit Center and Strategies in...
In this Interview, Mathias Fiedler1 is talking about his research, which was conducted in Bulgaria in the last summer. The study is mainly devoted to the situation of migrants in the transit center of...
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