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Ex-Tracés

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Ex-traces: GPS track
Multiple locations
Free
French

Europe

Collection · 32 items

fragility

Collection · 1 items

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France

Country · 33 sub-regions · 189 items

Italy

Country · 12 sub-regions · 77 items

Europe

Collection · 32 items

fragility

Collection · 1 items

Regions

France

Country · 33 sub-regions · 189 items

Italy

Country · 12 sub-regions · 77 items
A 5,232 km walking performance retracing in reverse the Balkan refugee route, marking ephemeral Braille inscriptions from the Geneva Convention to highlight fragility and precarity.

Ex-Tracés is a walking performance covering 5,232 km from Paris to Mardin, a city located on the Turkish-Syrian border. Between March 15 and August 26, 2022, I retraced—step by step and in reverse—the Balkan route taken by refugees on their journey towards Europe, completing the performance over 160 stages.

During this journey, I wrote 160 passages from the Geneva Convention relating to the Status of Refugees in Braille, distributing them across 11 countries: France, Germany, Austria, Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, Montenegro, Albania, Greece, and Turkey. At each stage, I created ephemeral inscriptions of selected extracts of the Convention, adapting to the specific sites and locally available materials.

To write in Braille a convention intended to be “carved in stone” is to emphasize its fragility, as well as the vulnerability of refugees themselves. The choice of means and materials makes the text visible rather than readable: in most cases, touching it means destroying it.

Credits

Ridha DHIB

APA style reference

Dhib, R. (2022). Ex-Tracés. walk · listen · create. https://walklistencreate.org/walkingpiece/ex-traces/

nuddle

Back in the 1500s, nuddle had a few meanings that congregated low to the ground: To nuddle was to push something along with your nose or nudge forward in some other horizontal manner. By the 1800s, nuddle started referring to stooped walking, the kind of non-jaunty mosey in which someone’s head is hanging low. You can hear a touch of contempt in a phrase from an 1854 glossary by A. E. Baker: “How he goes nuddling along.” Credits to Mark Peters.

Added by Geert Vermeire
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