Our migrations transform our lives and, who knows, perhaps our deaths. Our migrations are what we are, what we are becoming. What can we say, in these times of upheaval, as in all times, that upheavals lead to metamorphoses, in everyone, in time, against time...
As 2022 was the time, the moment, of the installation at the Josefa Mill, it might be legitimate to see how this new migration tends to illuminate the possible 2023 (s).
10 years of steps, detours, contours, flights, struggles, fights.
10 years of joys, challenges, sorrows, misunderstandings, amazement.
10 years of almost nothing, of already there, of not yet, of beyond.
Over the last ten years, Josefa's itinerancy has led to a reflection on our human migrant condition with the delicate observation that it is almost impossible to change the traditional migratory economy.
"Migrant", "non-migrant", "refugee", "non-refugee", here or there, self or other... what are we looking for at the end: unity or division, recognition of all and each or discrimination and marginalisation?
Find the source, the origin, the beginning. To look. To listen to this inner score of our Humanity: these are our migrations that flow.
What does “migrations” mean to me: a word, a language, a phenomenon, experiences, a peril, a source, life, death?
What are the possible definitions, the contours, the borders?
Some furtive glances.
Krakow, the Polish Florence. An ancient city centre, set in a tree-lined garden, itself set with tram tracks. An urban setting, with twirling bells and a few bruised traces of a Jewish presence, old university walls containing the revival of modern thought. An artistic habitat...
Through which lens do I view the migratory phenomenon? With what dispositions and intentions am I affected by the questions raised by our migrations? Moreover, am I still free of my "migrant being" and of my perceptions about our migrations?
Our western society, heady with its successes and impressive technological performances, especially in the fields of biology and health as well as in space research, but closed to anything that would reduce its success and limit its ambitious plans of evolution, had succeeded in getting rid, almost to the point of denying it, or at least neutralizing this witness as cumbersome as inevitable: death…
How can we combine “migration” and “migrations”? In other words, is it still possible, in politics, which too often wants to act in the short term, in a so-called efficient manner, to honour, as in public life, the uniqueness of each journey, of each migration?...
SHIFTS is my first audio documentary and my first project at the Josefa Foundation…
