At Home in Europe
'At Home in Europe' was a year-long Culture 2000 project in collaboration with Interspace in Sofia, Bulgaria; Rixc in Riga, Latvia and BEK in Bergen, Norway.
In a climate of increased ‘national’ security and a greater awareness of issues of migration and assimilation we wanted to develop a project which considered what being 'at home’ in Europe meant for nomadic artists and transient wider communities.
What we shared with our media centre partners was that either geographically or politically, we were all somehow on the edge of Europe.
Four artists - Borjana Ventzislavova, Martin John Callanan, Kriss Salmanis and Anya Lewin - spent 3 months in one of the four participating countries using digital media to make artworks in response to these themes. The artists considered what it meant to be European and what it meant to have a particular nationality in the light of the shifting boundaries within the European Union.
In addition a screening programme of video works by 15 international artists responded to the same theme and was co-curated by the project partners. It toured Europe in The Big M, our inflatable touring venue.
