Art and critical writing on European exclusionism
The xeno.no project aims to engage as an online platform of contemporary cultural reflection on a phenomenon of Xenophobia: “fear and hatred of strangers or foreigners or of anything that is strange or foreign”. This phenomenon is not a static ideological pattern, but takes on different faces, agendas and forms of establishment.
"Cherry Blossoms is a backpack that uses a small microcontroller and a GPS unit. Recent news of bombings in Iraq are downloaded to the unit every night, and their relative location to the center of the city are superimposed on a map of Boston. If the wearer walks in a space in Boston that’s correlated to a site of violence in Baghdad, the backpack detonates, releasing a compressed air cloud of confetti, looking for all the world like smoke and shrapnel. Each piece of confetti has the name of a civilian who died in a war based on lies."
