ANYTHING
TO DECLARE?
THINKING OUTSIDE
THE BORDER
ANYTHING
TO DECLARE?
THINKING OUTSIDE
THE BORDER
ANYTHING
TO DECLARE?
THINKING OUTSIDE
THE BORDER
Anything To Declare? Thinking Outside The Border
What is a border? What defines a threshold? How do these man made lines bend, mutate, contain and eject? Where are the outlines porous and where do they leak?
Host of the upcoming season of the residency program THEHOST.IS is the design duo Hyphen-Labs, aka Ece Tankal and Carmen Aguilar y Wedge. Titled "Anything to Declare? Thinking outside the Border," their research project addresses questions around the phenomenology of borders. Together with Hyphen-Labs, the three resident artists will spend three months investigating the contradictions of mobility/boundary and critically examining the technologies that constitute them.

Three resident artists are invited to find their own answer to the question of the motto and are given the opportunity to experiment, research and work playfully online and offline for the duration of the program. The resident artists work at the intersection of art and digitality and are either exploring this topic for the first time, or wish to expand their practice and continue their previous research. The results and formats will be presented at the end of the residency in Hamburg.
The spectrum of possible contributions is diverse and ranges from objects to mixed media, film, archival works, websites and performances. The resulting works are meant to question existing structures, dream across borders, and make recipients think about how we move through this world, in real life and online.
The residency projects follow one or more of the following thematic tracks: bodies as borders, landscapes as borders, nations as borders.
Hyphen-Labs

Hyphen-Labs is an ether based design duo, led by Ece Tankal and Carmen Aguilar y Wedge that explores absurdities, fantasies, and coincidences at the intersection of technology, art, science, and the future. Charting a path between the profound and the absurd, their work offers reflections upon the relationships between digital platforms and the physical world and how art can be used as a tool of intervention and immersion.
With backgrounds in architecture and engineering Ece and Carmen use emerging technologies not solely as tools but as societal apparatuses to organize our species in alternative ways to rework the boundaries of materiality and imagination.
Hyphen-Labs live and work in London, Vancouver and San Francisco.
www.hyphen-labs.com