The Danube, too, is a conflicted and contradictory space, full of industrial machinery and wild islands, a junkyard and an ecosystem all at once. On its edges, sharp loess cliffs and endless green flatlands. I’m interested in the intersections between these layers and how they shape the region as a liminal space on the edge of the EU. After all, border rivers are no more dangerous than any other body of water. It is our own philosophies and technologies of bordering, our exclusionary and racist migration policies, our blind eye turned to abuses of power that are killing people.
At the end of the journey, back on dry land, the work is not done. I am still actively collecting testimonies from people who have made the crossing. Sorting through my field recordings. Writing up. From time to time I still feel the lilt of the river beneath my feet. Bright and murky waters.
— Notes from the rivers, Liminal spaces and fluid borders