Encounters

Migration is less an issue of “others” than a potential encounter within a culturally mixed society. Instead of the usual suspicion, even hostility, towards people “we” don’t know or find different, and either exaggerating or erasing those differences, it is better, I suggest, to go towards them, understand and enjoy those differences. The concept of knowledge underlying this view holds that knowledge is a never-ending process, rather than a hasty attempt to reach a fixed state of arrival in which one knows. I will develop some nuances of this view through a video installation I have made and exhibited, which is entirely geared toward personal contact, interest, and friendship.