Unfortunately you can't access borderXing if you're already IN the EU ;)
S On 4/2/08 8:47 AM, "Luke Munn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > wow, EU squatting 101. maybe some of the routes in border xing > (http://www.tate.org.uk/netart/borderxing/) might help. :-) > > > Luke Munn > http://window.auckland.ac.nz/ > http://window.org.nz/ > http://www.myspace.com/theribbonmusic > > > On Feb 4, 2008 10:39 AM, Julian Oliver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> ..on or around Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 04:17:10PM +0000, Damian Stewart said: >>> >>> hopefully you'll understand something from my ramble and will be able to >>> give me some advice. any and all is appreciated. >> >> [snip] >> >> really you only have a handful of strategies. here is my ordering of >> them: >> >> 1/ marry someone with an EU passport you both love and love living >> with. as soon as the marriage is recognised in both countries you >> have the right of residency. permanent citizenship is usually >> automatically granted in 2-3 years. >> >> 2/ seek and get a great job relating to your practice and/or accept >> a professorship at a UNI. >> >> 3/ buy time on working visas doing contract work while you find a >> UNI position or job you do like. >> >> 4/ a mutually agreed upon 'passport marriage': marry someone you >> believe you can stand living with for as long as it takes to get >> citizenship status. in most cases this is 2-3 years. this is >> not-reccommended, barely legal, and afflicted with a high failure >> rate. nonetheless you'd be surprised how many people in the EU >> would love to have a NZ passport. >> >> 5/ wing it. this, as you know, is a process of constantly trying to >> improve your options. the first start involves a careful choice of >> city. >> >> most Kiwis hide in friendly cities like Berlin and pop out of the >> Schengen states into a country like Switzerland to buy another 3 >> months stay-credit when they need to. that works very reliably: >> while non-sensical it does work on paper - which is where it counts >> in a queue at passport control. poor cities (like Berlin) are better >> to these ends as they care only that you don't become an economic >> burden. bring in money and they'll often let it go if you're from a >> 'western' country, preferably white and don't look totally broke. >> >> Portugal, where you are, is a very good bet if you don't need to >> travel too much; it's a long way by (the typically safer) train to >> get to continental Europe, as you're well aware. >> >> if you feel drawn to the great many opportunities afforded by being an >> artist in the EU but: can't bear the creeping anxiety born of border >> improvisations, shudder at the thought of marriage (in and out of love), >> don't want to step back into a UNI or yield as a contract artist-hand, >> then yes, you're far better off trying to make it work back in NZ in my >> opinion. >> >> i 'winged it' here before aquiring residency status for several years. >> the feeling of not being settled becomes a difficult and compromising >> psychological force and one that will only eat at your practice in time. >> >> going back to NZ won't - from experience - increase your options for >> organising residency in the EU unless you have an existing offer of work >> and need to submit paperwork while within your 'country of origin'. >> i was luckily allowed to apply for a Danish work visa from Brussels and >> did not need to return to NZ while the paper work went through. from >> what i hear this is far from a rule-bound case. >> >> given your abilities, ideas and capacity to 'network' i would think >> you will soon enough find yourself in a position which grants you the >> time you need and/or want here in the EU. that may result in you needing >> to wait it out in NZ while sufficient locks of red tape are woven. >> >> HTH >> >> julian >> >> -- >> julian oliver >> http://julianoliver.com >> http://selectparks.net >> messages containing HTML will not be read. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Ada_list mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://aotearoadigitalarts.org.nz/ >> > _______________________________________________ > Ada_list mailing list > [email protected] > http://aotearoadigitalarts.org.nz/ Prof Sean Cubitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Media and Communications Program Faculty of Arts Room 127 John Medley East The University of Melbourne Parkville VIC 3010 Australia Tel: + 61 3 8344 3667 Fax:+ 61 3 8344 5494 M: 0448 304 004 Skype: seancubitt http://www.culture-communication.unimelb.edu.au/media-communications/ http://homepage.mac.com/waikatoscreen/seanc/ http://seancubitt.blogspot.com/ http://del.icio.us/seancubitt Editor-in-Chief Leonardo Book Series http://leonardo.info _______________________________________________ Ada_list mailing list [email protected] http://aotearoadigitalarts.org.nz/
