Tarifa is a small city in the very south of Spain. Ten kilometers of sandy beach, fresh winds and a medieval city center attract a multitude of travellers: Surfers, tourists looking for recreation as well as all sorts of transients from the northern parts of Europe. But that's not all: All the year, but especially around midsummer, at night hundreds of people go the other way around. They come from the Maghreb or subsaharian countries and they are heading northwards by crossing the Straits of Gibraltar by boat and without papers.

The 29 kilometer wide stretch between Tangiers in the north of Morocco and Tarifa keeps the smallest possible distance between Africa and Europe. It cuts one of the most prominent border regions in history filled up with flowery metaphors and bloody realities, nowadays characterized by high-tech surveillance and bodily resistance.

FADAIAT*// BORDERLINE ACADEMY will take place in Tarifa from June 17th to 26th, 2005. The old castle of "Guzman El Bueno" built in the 9th century will host a series of workshops, seminars, public events, concerts, parties, screenings, shows, theoretical and practical experiments in arts, media and politics.

More than 200 artists and activists from all over Europe and the Mediterranean are expected to meet for an hybrid academy project: FADAIAT*// BORDERLINE ACADEMY will link practices of producing art, culture and technology with current debates on movements, mobility, migration and precarity. It aims to shape new notions of collaboration and activism that reach out beyond traditional patterns of primitive networking, moral binaries and institutional critique.

From and across the margins of the real the notion of a virtual europe may arise that is based on the concepts of freedom of movement and freedom of knowledge against the regimes of paranoia and privatization, against the logics of inclusion and exclusion.

The ten days event is designed in a strictly modular set-up: Individuals, groups, networks can plug into a common infrastructure that consists of meeting spaces, communication platforms, production facilities and local area networks in an extraordinary challenging and inspiring environment.

THE OVERCODED BORDER

Like in 2004, there will be a wireless link across the Straits of Gibraltar that establishes a temporary high-bandwith internet connection between Tarifa and Tangiers.

FADAIAT*//FOOBAR.TV

Every night a video-program will be produced that presents the unfolding events of the day, develops new audio-visual formats and gets distributed through local TV as well as via V2V-distribution on the net.

A MAP AND NOT A TRACING

Special attention will be given to the mapping of one of the most advanced surveillance systems that controls the flows of people, material and immaterial goods. Tactical sea, air and land based systems will be deployed and operated as a means of tactical civil counter reconnaissance.

FORTRESSES OF EUROPE

Climax and turning point will be the celebration of freedom of movement and knowledge around solstice, in the shortest night of the year, from June 23th to 24th: Remote events will be organized on a transversal line that crosses Europe from Andalucia to Latvia.

INTERZONE

Between the opening on June 18th on the Alameda of Tarifa and the closing event on June 26th in the castle of Tarifa various workshops, shows and activities will happen in Tangiers, Morocco.

FADAIAT*// BORDERLINE ACADEMY is a collaboration between: hackitectura, Indymedia Estrecho, D-A-S-H, KEIN.ORG, Delegación de Cultura - Ayuntamiento de Tarifa, Entránsito, International Festival (IF), Makrolab, Pact Systems, pirate cinema, Unfriendly-Takeover, frassanito-network, Kingdom of Piracy (KOP), Engage! Tactical Media and many others.

FADAIAT*// BORDERLINE ACADEMY is a follow-up event of Transacciones / fadaiat in June 2004, NEURO--networking europe in February 2004, and makeworlds in October 2001.

FOR MORE INFORMATION, PARTICIPATION AND CONTACT:

http://fadaiat.net

http://borderlineacademy.org

mailto:info@fadaiat.net

mailto:info@borderlineacademy.org