Yes, whenever I come into Auckland airport with Japanese passport I get taken into a room and ask me questions like "Where is the drugs" Even though I don't write my occupation as 'artist'
I hear you about floating around countries with Visa issues, applying for residencies etc.. I met your friend Christine Sugrue at Share Festival in Torino. We stayed in the same place and we had great time. She won the Share Prize too. http://www.toshare.it/eng/about/exibition-share-award It was very inspiring to have opportunity to attend conference and talk to many of the international speakers. It made me question a lot about what it means to be engaged in New Media Art in New Zealand. Well, let's talk about it when we have chance to meet somewhere in the world.. I am in Vienna now, it's snowing.. Off to Paris in the weekend and I will spend a week in Switzerland collaborating with a Processing programmer there.. Kentaro On 20/03/2008, at 1:30 AM, Damian Stewart wrote: > i just got interrogated for three hours by UK border police. not > fun. don't > recommend. > > i got let in but apparently it was touch and go between yes you can > come in > and no you have to buy a next-day one-way ticket to NZ (~$5000). and > i have > a fixed date of departure which is not recorded on my passport but is > recorded in their computers. (i now have two 'coded stamps'. the > first i > didn't know about; the second has 'six months' written on it, which > means > 'until 24th of May', because if they wrote '24th of May,' when i > have to be > out, i could appeal; so they write six months, and if i'm still here > on > 25th of May, the computers will Know, and it has been made quite > clear to > me that there will be Trouble.) > > please, please, everyone go and watch the Alfonso Cuaron film > Children of > Men. aside from being a beautiful film, it shows the UK T+ 10 years, > if > current trends continue. no, it's not an exaggeration. > > NZ is very shielded from this. pay attention: this side of the world > is > rapidly slipping into the kind of constant-surveillance fascist > nightmare > we normally associate with World War II or George Orwell. keep your > papers > on you at all times. you can be asked for them by the police at any > time, > for any reason. for your safety, security, and comfort, please > purchase the > lifestyle provided, and do not stray from the path well trodden. > > i never understood artworks that were about borders, about > transience; and > then i became one of those people, and now i understand. immigration > policy > is institutionalised racism. you do not have freedom of movement if > you > come from the wrong place. apparently, NZ is the wrong place. > > _______________________________________________ > Ada_list mailing list > [email protected] > http://aotearoadigitalarts.org.nz/ _______________________________________________ Ada_list mailing list [email protected] http://aotearoadigitalarts.org.nz/
