Exhibition: Portals to the Future
"Portals to the Future is a citywide artistic intervention and exhibition exploring how we might imagine more humane futures for migration. Developed by artist-researcher Carolyn Defrin, the project brings together two interconnected works created in dialogue with people living and working across border contemporarys.
Throughout Graz, subtle interventions transform everyday doorways into portals to immersive audio experiences. Originally developed in Samos, Greece, these sound works invite visitors to pause, listen, and step into speculative futures shaped by care, connection, repair, and coexistence.
The journey culminates in an exhibition of thirty-two artworks created with participants from Europe, Africa, and the Americas. Together, the works explore how imagination itself can become a civic practice.
The program also includes a public walking tour and a conversation with members of the NOMIS research project Elastic Borders: Rethinking the Borders of the 21st Century, which is led by Bilgin Ayata at the University of Graz and reflects on this interdisciplinary collaboration.'
City-wide audio intervention on doorways
Mon–Fri 24/7
Freely accessible
8.10.–18.10.
Exhibition
ReSoWi-Zentrum (Block E)
Universitätsstraße 15
8010 Graz
Mon–Fri 6:00–22:00, Sat 6:00–14:00
Free admission
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