Institute of Threshold

Institute of Threshold - Border Infrastructures: It is a process of long engagement of a fictional institute of border infrastructures that will serve to archive and connect rhizomatically with the current conditions of conflict territories and related practices. What will happen if the border is removed, not existing anymore? Or, is already borders a liquid and fluid zone? What could be the autonomous infrastructure of conflict zones? The Institute of Threshold proposal is about reactivating these questions in order to create a speculative realist approach of the function and spatial contradictions of border infrastructure. Cyprus as a contested borderland in the Mediterranean Sea is surrounded by refugee/migrant flow, civil war, sea patrols and liquid military control. As a starting point, the Institute of Threshold provides questions of conditions covering the mapping and constellation of surrounding zones and passing corridors in east Mediterranean. Urban warfare, destroyed and curfews siege town, border crossings and nomadic dwelling points out the era of post-human condition. We want to articulate with ongoing cases of conceptual framework of decay, autonomy, infrastructure, decolonization and forms of non-belonging.