the dream is over
Director MARIA RUIDO
Countries Spain
Duration 47 min
Synopsis
The dream is over was commissioned by the museums MoCAB (Belgrade, Serbia) and, ARTIUM (Vitoria (Spain) to the project Invisible Violence., Speaking about invisible violence hear means finding voice for the productive body, i.e. (quoting Friedrich Engels) between the very basis of, property: family and state. After the Arab revolutions and the crisis of fishermen, in the Kerkennah Islands (Tunisia’s easternmost point, closest to Italy) in 2012, the South Mediterranean has increasingly become what is known as the anonymous tomb for more than 17.000 immigrants who have died there since the beginning of the 1990’s., The EU migration policies and border control has intensified since the creation of the Frontex agency in 2004, and later with EuroSur and the military operation Mare Nostrum. Frontex is a good example of the term “necropolitics” coined by political scientist from Cameroon Achille, Mbembe. According to “necropolitics,” after postmodernity, the politics of the state took a step further in the governing of bodies and lives, by, managing the dead and especially the bodies of those along the borders., The artist’s work is rooted in her life, her experiences in Tunisia, the estate and the family of her partner. There fore she aimes to reflect upon this through images and words, through the tracks and footprints of those who remain in its maritime tombstone, obscenae, those who have to stay invisible in order to uphold the simulacra of democracy, neo-colonialism and the necropolitics of human rights.
The dream is over was commissioned by the museums MoCAB (Belgrade, Serbia) and, ARTIUM (Vitoria (Spain) to the project Invisible Violence., Speaking about invisible violence hear means finding voice for the productive body, i.e. (quoting Friedrich Engels) between the very basis of, property: family and state. After the Arab revolutions and the crisis of fishermen, in the Kerkennah Islands (Tunisia’s easternmost point, closest to Italy) in 2012, the South Mediterranean has increasingly become what is known as the anonymous tomb for more than 17.000 immigrants who have died there since the beginning of the 1990’s., The EU migration policies and border control has intensified since the creation of the Frontex agency in 2004, and later with EuroSur and the military operation Mare Nostrum. Frontex is a good example of the term “necropolitics” coined by political scientist from Cameroon Achille, Mbembe. According to “necropolitics,” after postmodernity, the politics of the state took a step further in the governing of bodies and lives, by, managing the dead and especially the bodies of those along the borders., The artist’s work is rooted in her life, her experiences in Tunisia, the estate and the family of her partner. There fore she aimes to reflect upon this through images and words, through the tracks and footprints of those who remain in its maritime tombstone, obscenae, those who have to stay invisible in order to uphold the simulacra of democracy, neo-colonialism and the necropolitics of human rights.