You
are cordially invited to a presentation by Invisible Borders:
The Trans-African Project to support
their 2014 trip from Lagos to Sarajevo.
Featuring
presentations by Emmanuel Iduma, Dawit L. Petros,
and Emeka Okereke
Tuesday, March 18, 2014 at 7pm
526 West 26th Street, Suite 718
New York, NY
Beginning June
2, 2014, ten artists working in photography, film, literature, and performance
art will travel by road from Lagos, Nigeria to Sarajevo, Bosnia, spending a
total of five months together and crossing up to 24 countries in the process.
The work produced during the road trip will investigate issues of migration,
movement, identity, trans-Africanism, intercultural exchange, and artistic
collaboration. This fundraising event aims to contribute essential support for
Invisible Borders in realizing the 2014 Lagos-Sarajevo trip.
Since
its founding in Nigeria in 2009, Invisible Borders has made four road trips
across more than a dozen African countries. The photographs, films, and
writings from the project have been exhibited in Berlin, Bern, New York, Paris,
Accra, Vienna, N'djamena, Khartoum, Addis Ababa, and Brazzaville. Invisible
Borders, and founder Emeka Okereke, were part of the Al Jazeera's New African Photography documentary
film series in 2013. The road trips have been featured widely in major
international media, including CNN, and included
in The New Museum's 2012 Triennial "The Ungovernables."
Invisible
Borders has thrived on the goodwill and support of a number of individuals and
cultural partners since its inception. Organized in collaboration with The
Walther Collection in New York, this event will also provide a forum to discuss
the ideals and accomplishments of the project.
All
contributions are tax-deductible. For information on contributing, email: info@invisible-borders.com or visit www.invisible-borders.com.
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