2021-2022
Bad Ems, Germany
Installation

Drawing I: 304cm/ 150cm
Drawing II: 77cm/ 57cm
Video: 4:57 Min.  

The residency started in June but Noor us Sabah’s arrival in August because of Visa issues, became a “suitable” start for her planned research. The experience of traveling with a Pakistani passport is entirely different than for instance with a European one. Amidst climate change debates, “flight shaming” has emerged within the arts community. She put her finger on the problem by asking colleagues and scholars about their conflicting opinions in order to draw a bigger picture.

As dialogue partners, Noor engaged Bosnian artist Mila Panić, who in 2019 initiated the platform Fully Funded Residencies; German artist Stefan Klein, who hasn’t used a plane in 10 years; German artist Folke Köbberling, whose practice addresses issues of sustainability and mobility; Philippino-American activist, artist, and academic Margarita Certeza Garcia, whose work addresses borders and discrimination; and British scholar, artist and climate activist Jay Jordan from the Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination, who lives at the ZAD Nantes, France.