Invites online contributions and physical media for the archive, in order to share performance practice, ideas and research that facilitate
Art and critical writing on European exclusionism
The xeno.no project aims to engage as an online platform of contemporary cultural reflection on a phenomenon of Xenophobia: “fear and hatred of strangers or foreigners or of anything that is strange or foreign”. This phenomenon is not a static ideological pattern, but takes on different faces, agendas and forms of establishment.
"Cherry Blossoms is a backpack that uses a small microcontroller and a GPS unit. Recent news of bombings in Iraq are downloaded to the unit every night, and their relative location to the center of the city are superimposed on a map of Boston. If the wearer walks in a space in Boston that’s correlated to a site of violence in Baghdad, the backpack detonates, releasing a compressed air cloud of confetti, looking for all the world like smoke and shrapnel. Each piece of confetti has the name of a civilian who died in a war based on lies."
