Show in Bratislava currently features ‘Border Depositions’

Our postdoctoral fellow Ifor Duncan is currently exhibiting the collaborative multimedia installation Border Depositions with Stefanos Levidis for the Liminal Ecologies: Thresholds of Transition and Entanglement Exhibition curated by Marianna Tsionki and Mariana Cunha at Tranzit.sk in Bratislava (27/03/2025-11/07/2025). Ifor and Stefanos activated the opening of the Exhibition by presenting their media lecture Weaponizing a River which explores a century of border violence at the Evros/Meriç/Maritsa river border between Greece, Turkey and Bulgaria.

Border Depositions (2025) is a collaborative multimedia installation in which Ifor Duncan and Stefanos Levidis investigate the mobilisation of the Evros, Meri., Maritsa River—’land’ border between Greece,

Turkey and Bulgaria—as a bordering technology. Demarcated by the Lausanne Peace Treaty and Athens protocol (1923-1926), the river and its surrounding region are often referred to as Greece’s ανάχωμα (anachoma), or embankment, historically established to defend against Turkish invasion, and more recently against asylum seekers. Since 2018, their ongoing research has involved several field trips during which they encountered a military buffer zone that obstructed access to what they call a ‘weaponised river’ and obscured the illegal practice of pushbacks. Evoking both the sedimentary politics of the border, the river’s erosions and depositions of shifting banks and islands over the past century, and legal depositions in defence of the rights of asylum seekers, they have organised the installation into eight deposits (involving sound, image, and text) that introduce their oblique entries into the river border.

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