Artistic Residencies

Borderline Offensive hosted 5 transnational + transdisciplinary artistic residencies in 2018, across 5 European countries and hosting 19 artists from 9 countries, selected through an open call with more than 130 applicants from a total of 26 countries.

During the artistic residencies, participating artists explored together issues of intercultural conflict and dialogue, sociological contact zones, migration and integration, collective identity-building, and community cohesion in contemporary Europe – through the lens of humor and participatory art.

The programme of the artistic residencies included 1 participatory workshop for local migrants and natives and 1 artist talk or creative workshop for local audiences and artistic community, as well as time for group and individual work to create an original 'Borderline Offensive' artistic project.
4 original projects have been selected for production and touring across Europe and the Middle East in 2019/2020. You can know more about them and how to bring them to your venue/festival at Borderline Offensive's Portfolio.
Below, details and stories from each artistic residency and the artists that took part.

These were the selected artists and the artistic residencies they were part of.

Bulgaria:
Gergana Dimitrova, Bulgaria
Güneş Terkol, Turkey
Veera Suvalo Grimberg, Sweden

Netherlands:
Peter Gonda, Slovakia
Petko Dourmana, Bulgaria
Salam Alhassan, Syria/Germany
Tim Laning, Netherlands

Serbia:
Darinka Pop-Mitić & Svebor Midžić, Serbia
Nalan Yırtmaç, Turkey
Linda Wardal, Sweden
Zen Roorda, Netherlands

Slovakia:
Khaled Jarrar, Palestine
Peter Kočiš, Slovakia
ŠKART, Serbia
Sytze Schalk, Netherlands

Sweden
Abduljabbar Alsuhili, Sweden/Yemen
Destructive Creation, Bulgaria
Ivana Šáteková, Slovakia
Omar Abi Azar, Lebanon

House of Humour and Satire – Gabrovo, Bulgaria

Theatre, Dance, Visual Arts
Humor, art & discovery: how can sneaky humor and love bombing through movement face us with serious questions and make us seek the answers?

Keunstwurk – Leeuwarden, Netherlands

Theatre, Comics, Serious Game, Tech and New Media
Humor, art & serious fun: how to foster social resilience to cope with the challenges of globalization such as the increasing gap between 'haves' and 'have nots' - and the influx of migrants and asylum seekers in Europe?

The Center for Cultural Decontamination – Beograd, Serbia

Visual arts, Street art, Theatre, Dance
Humor, art & resilience: how does humor breaks tension by helping us look at the world, others and ourselves from a different perspective? how does it prompts us to experience joy even in the face of difficult times?

Creative Industry Kosice – Kosice, Slovakia

Theatre, Literature, Visual Arts
Humor, art & conspiracy: how do you deal with the fear of the imagined other, when there are no "others" around for you to meet?

TILLT – Gothenburg + Skarhamn, Sweden

Theatre, New Media, Guerilla Art
Humor, art & affiliation: how can humor and art help us amuse each other and build relationships?

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Borderline Offensive 2017-2020 is led by TILLT (SE), together with CZKD (RS), Keunstwurk (NL), House of Humour and Satire (BG), Creative Industry Kosice (SK), Center for Peace Studies (HR), Symbiosis (GR), and in cooperation with MitOst eV (DE), Anadolu Kültür (TK), Zoukak Theatre Association (LB), Ettijahat - Independent Culture (SY) and Ramallah Municipality (PS).