The game

Performance by Sana Ghobbeh (Iran) and Huda Takriti (Syria)
September 2014- Vienna, Austria

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Entering a new country immigrants have to provide some documents in order to get new ones. Dealing with certain terms and conditions some words become their obsession. Going through different steps of that process they become stuck in an endless game of those words.

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The Game is an illustration of what we used to play in our childhood. It was a test of our ability to keep the balance while jumping from one block to another. Passing the borders puts us in that test again. We are playing the same game but this time in the scale of our lives. Recalling those memories we are still struggling for stability. Remembering how to keep the balance.
Lets play the game again and again.

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"The Game" has been held in Vienna. Experimenting the idea in different parts of the city, we drew the game in which the numbers are replaced by the words; border, home, land, visa, exile, war, migrate and refugee.

The idea was creating moments for people playing with the words which play a crucial role in immigrants' lives.

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The work was documented by photos and also a video is made out of the process depicting people who are jumping from one word to another.