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Infrastructures of Movement | Part 1
Exhibition | Works from the n.b.k. Video-Forum collection
- VOX centre d’image contemporaine, Montreal
- LanguageOriginal languages with English subtitles
- PriceFree and open to the public.
- Part of series: Infrastructures
What Keeps Us Together, What Draws Us Apart
Infrastructures of Movement
Between October 2026 and May 2027, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.) and VOX, centre de l’image contemporaine, will co-present three film programs featuring works from the n.b.k. Video-Forum collection.
The first part of this program brings together works engaging with mobility and movement. At its centre are built structures–spaces, borders, transport networks–as well as legal and affective systems that connect territories and people while also serving as instruments of control, restricting movement and marking what counts as an outside. The works span several registers: from the intimate scale of bodies bound together in shared motion, to concrete infrastructures such as rail, aviation and shipping networks, which materialize political borders and histories of displacement, to the ideological power exercised through architecture and urban planning, which can declare people citizens, resources or security risks. Using a broad range of formal languages, all of the works examine who is permitted to move freely, who is held back, and how this distinction is enforced.