Identity Paradox

13.09.2023 - 01.11.2023

Improper Walls, Wien / Österreich, 1150

Identities are circumstantial and multiple, constantly changing, mutating, solid and fluid, inactive and active. Yet identity is something defined, a lot of times not by oneself. Identities are segregated and dominated. Identities are objects of violence at home and in society. Identities are in between history and memory. Identities are in post-memory. Identities are in family structure and in social, economic and political systems. Identities migrate. Identities are culture, and identities are nature....

Now, in crisis, identity becomes a paradox, a resource of our connections—to ourselves and each other—locating freedom in it. We carry our resources through times of heroes and in the stories, which aren’t driven by conflict. Our stories are multivocal and multilocal. They are about care, knowledge-carrying, and healing. The stories with non-linear timelines, without people and without nations. Nonetheless, uniting, destroying dams, and thus inhabiting different temporalities in the present time for better futures.

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