Migrant women are usually who take care of domestic tasks. This means that migrant women are supporting the economic system of European countries. Care work is all those invisible practices that must happen in order to let others have a full time job.

This video ‘Inmate’ is from our Remapping Europe video collection: It is about the physical and existential need for a personal space you can call your own. Three migrant housekeepers reminisce about their places at home. In the homes they work in, they feel like inmates; in their own homes, far away, they are free. – By María Jesús Valenzuela (1986) from Chile.

In the video below ‘My Ukrainian’, Krzysztof Janiak read dozens of comments on polish forums for people looking for Ukrainian house help. Poland has long faced employment related migrations to the west. On the other hand – Ukrainian women have been coming for several years now to become the help in middle class homes. They work illegally, below their education and skills. This remix tells about their employers and makes an attempt to imagine that anonymity would be impossible. It’s the story of the power of words.

Today, in the morning a group of 50 media-makers, thinkers, artists and activist are creating a fresh front page of a financial newspaper, subverting the usual logic, language and contents.

In the afternoon, there is another Audio-visual Source Code, this time by Ayse Akalin, assistant Professor of Sociology in the Dept. of Humanities and Social Sciences at Istanbul Technical University. Live-stream at 5.30 pm.

More about the HOME Encounter seminar here.

The sound will come through in 2 languages. Use your right ‘headphone ear’ English, and the left for Spanish.

An Audiovisual Source Code is neither a screening nor a conference, it is a hybrid format. It is a game. It could be a discussed screening, it could be a screening-concert, it could be an scenic experiment with audiovisual sources. An Audiovisual Source Code uses materials from personal and institutional archives to present the topic of the day.

The realities produced by the mainstream media interfere with our direct experience, creating hegemonic discourses that are difficult to tear down. How can we begin? ‘Hacking’ the veil of imposed images is a crucial challenge if we are to generate a model of inclusive citizenship and to demolish the monuments of neoliberalism, revealing the shadows that they cast.

Abu Ali (Toni Serra) studied History of Art and Philosophy at theUniversidad de Barcelona, video edition and aesthetics at the Film & Video Art in New York, and Communication Analysis at CUNY Brooklyn College. In 1989 he started working in video as a form of reflection and critique of contemporary culture, and also as a means of personal exploration. In 1992 he co-founded the OVNIarchives where he still works doing research and programming events such as: Post Sept 11th, Resistances, Colonial Dream, Autonomous Zones.

The Audiovisual Source Code format is distributed through a Creative Commons BY-SA license and appears from the core of EMBED integrated audiovisual, a community that reflects on the integrated audiovisual.

The live Cinema show €urovisions takes you on a trip through Europe and the homelands of newcomers, remixing personal family albums and archive materials with documentary techniques into an audio-visual spectacle. €urovisions is the second performance by an international collective of young artists from different European countries, coordinated by ZEMOS98 collective, and produced in collaboration with the renowned Light Surgeons (UK).

More about €urovisions here.

We will livestream the following events from Seville at the 16th ZEMOS98 Festival:

• Opening + €urovisions: a show by European Souvenirs. April 8th from 8pm at Alameda Theater.
• Audiovisual Source Codes: April 9, 10 and 11th from 5pm at Central Theater.

Read full programme here.

Philanthropy House is a European initiative first of its kind, conceived and supported by six foundations located across Europe. Each foundation provided mission-related funds to develop the House as a model for the future, a novel way of helping foundations become stronger together while offering a window to discover the important work they do to European decision-makers and the general public. Philanthropy House provides the platform to make this vision a reality.

Bringing together new voices from Turkey, Algeria and the UK, the exhibition Reframe invited 9 emerging artists to use their distinctive styles and viewpoints to ‘reframe’ perspectives through a series of new graphic short stories that examine the cultural, social and political dynamics between Europe and each of the participating countries.

Philanthropy House
rue Royale 94
1000 Bruxelles

Accompanying the exhibition, Doc Next films are screened till 12 May 2014.

The imagery on Europe is weaved by hundreds of thousands of images that are constantly renewed but also reproduced repetitively in a loop: short phrases, slogans, repetition devices that fill political propaganda, news networks, publicity and often cinema.
A sticky web that gradually thickens till it forms a dense veil of images, conditioning what we see and how we look at things, taking control of our direct experience.

The 16TH ZEMOS98 FESTIVAL wants to hack the veil, to use melting-pot remix as a mean to deconstruct the dominant social imagery; and thus unveil and expose social, institutional and media racism – 8 – 12 April in Seville.

Full programme online here.

From the 21st to the 23rd of March 2014 the Second Intersectoral Forum for Local Migration Policies will take place in the city close to the eastern border. It’s aim is to support the creation or modern and open policies of integrating immigrants on a local level in Poland based on practical experience in intersectoral collaboration. The presentation of European Souvenirs will be an accompanying event of the forum. It will be open to a wider public.

Lublin is a city located several dozen kilometers from the Ukrainian border, inhabited by migrants from behind the eastern border, refugees from Chechnya and a big international community of students. It is the place where personal, local and universal stories found by the artists creating the show in home and national archives can resonate stronger than anywhere else.

March 22nd / 8 p.m.
Centrum Akademickie “Chatka Żaka”
16 Radziszewskiego Street
Inkubator, auditorium 

With the special support of