"Have you ever crossed a border?" aims to discover intimate stories about borders in order to create new cartographies of territory. In times of global crisis and mass migration, the intention is to reflect on how border narratives define our identity as well as how can we transform them and re define ourselves. The desire is to create sensitive spaces in which to think of and reflect on the context we are living in as well as how we tell and create stories of this context. Every map has an ideology, this is why t is extremely important to create new cartographies of places. When places are conceived as dynamic, transformation becomes possible. "Have you ever crossed a border?" combines spontaneous and preplanned interviews as well as gatherings in galleries and public spaces around the questions: Have you ever crossed a border? What do borders mean to us, and what stories do they tell about us? When does a border become visible? How can we transform narratives about borders and, in so doing, redefine ourselves? And can we imagine a future without borders?
Its investigation has been supported by Akademie Schloss Solitude during a textual fellowship in 2020.