In the year 2000 there was a total of fifteen fortified border walls and fences between sovereign nations. Today, physical barriers at sixty-three borders divide nations across four continents. In this video of a lecture-performance, shot in the former studios of Radio Free Berlin, Lawrence Abu Hamdan reflects upon the permeability of these walls with three cases. Scientists developed a technology that enables to pierce through surfaces previously impossible for x-rays, with the help of the analysis of muons — invisible cosmic particles. Now no wall on earth is impermeable. Today, we’re all wall, and no wall at all.

Shot in Vienna during the divisive presidential elections of 2016, visiting outsider Buerkner creates a distinct impression of the city. In this distinct stereoscopic film two separate image streams merge into spatial entities through the act of viewing. Aykan juxtaposes different 3D images to mystify and renew the cityscape. At first, the results are oppressive and disorienting, with the eye unable to comprehend what it is seeing, but as the effect takes hold, it becomes clear the city is being experienced from an entirely new perspective.

No es (It isn’t) is a cumulative poem by Mariano Blatt, whose constant writing process extends over a lifetime. The text of the poem, to which verses are added over days, months and years, can cover anything: images, people, memories, landscapes, phrases, ideas, etc. Having that list of “what seems to be but isn’t” ringing in his head, Eduardo Williams’s film Parsi observes in a perpetual movement the spaces and people to create another poem that is caressed, crashes and spins next to No es.