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Victoria Martínez The Botanical Shift 2023, Bard College Berlin In the 16th century, many European botanists traveled to South America to find “new” species of plants and flowers, giving rise to taxonomic categories that were named after them. In many cases, this disregarded the fact that species of flowers, plants and animals had already been…
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Ryann Liljenstolpe A Disappearance 2023, Bard College Berlin A Disappearance meditates on the violent disappearances of migrants crossing the southern border of the United States. Between 1994, the year that the border enforcement strategy “Prevention Through Deterrence” went into effect, and 2019, the United States Border Patrol reported over 7,000 deaths of migrants attempting to…
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Imogen Hilton-Barber (Not my) Home 2023, Bard College Berlin One of the cornerstones of South Africa’s Apartheid was a system of circulatory migrant labor. Migrant laborers were Black South Africans who moved to urban settlements looking to support their families, as well as those who came to South Africa on contract from neighboring states. The…
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Lara Habboub A River in Between 2023, Bard College Berlin Since 1948, many Palestinians have become exiles in Lebanon and Syria. In the 1970s, when the Lebanese civil war broke out, some first generation born refugees in Lebanon had to flee and were scattered around neighboring Arab countries. Three decades after that, the war in…
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Margherita Carlon Hideous syringe city, surfaces suddenly. Still and sparkling. 2023, Bard College Berlin Many with a EU passport experience the border as an imaginary line on the ground: that what separates you from expensive or cheap gas or cigarettes; at most, a door at the customs office or a passport control. The knowledge of…
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Michael Nyakundi Tributes and Tributaries 2023, Bard College Berlin The poem explores geo-historical connectivity through migration for the Maasai people, the Mara River, and the Wildebeests, as all three have had to navigate the changing landscape of East Africa’s Rift Valley. They are linked by space, movement, and their coexistence across two geographic borders: Tanzania…
