MigratouriSpace
Migrating Spaces and Tourism I
MigraTouriSpace is an artistic examination of travelling as an approach to the phenomena of migration and tourism.
The products of spatial imagination not only mutually influence migration and tourism as a mobility continuum, but also drive developments of new urban areas.Through case studies on the Vietnamese wholesale centre Dong Xuan Center in Berlin Lichtenberg and the German village Dogil Maeul in South Korea, the artist Stefanie Bürkle and her interdisciplinary team investigated the tension between post-tourist practices and the migration of culturally coded spatial contexts, also in light of pandemic-related emptiness.
Migrating Spaces are spaces that roam with people when they migrate. Tourism no longer refers to vacation as an exceptional state, but to the tourist‘s gaze, which has been taken back home and has long since shaped what we call everyday life.
The results of the artistic research were presented in a walk-in spatial installation consisting of videos, mappings and photo-wallpapers, providing surprising insights into the diverse spatial overlapping of migration and tourism.
For the visitor, the exhibition became a journey of images, people and spaces. Large photo-wallpapers lea into a walk-through multi-channel video projection and interview recordings revealed people‘s multi-layered relationship to migrating spaces and tourism. The work questions conventional perceptions of tourism and migration and one‘s own view on what is supposedly foreign.
In connection with the exhibition, the book MigraTouriSpace was published, with photographs, texts and mappings.
Jovis Verlag ISBN 978-3-86859-697-7
Deutsche Forschungsgesellschaft, SFB1265 www.sfb1265.de