Für diesen Fußmarsch von Wien nach Istanbul von 3. September bis 10. Dezember mit der Allgemeinen Erklärung der Menschenrechte im Gepäck darf ich die Social-Media-Betreuung übernehmen.
Wer einen Teil der Strecke mit Carina Riedl und Dieter Kovačič mitgehen, ihnen für eine Nacht Unterkunft geben oder sich sonst irgendwie beteiligen möchte, findet alle Infos auf INTO THE CRACKS.
INTO THE CRACKS
is art project, self-discovery, and political activism.
It is the tension between these three aspects that our venture aims to explore. Initiators Carina Riedl and Dieter Kovačič plan to walk roughly 2500 kilometres from Vienna to Istanbul and read the articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. And we would like you to join us: by walking with us, hosting us, or by reading along and thus raising your voice for an open Europe; through letters or posts of all kinds, on the trail or on the web.
INTO THE CRACKS
crosses borders.
Over 99 days, from September 3rd to December 10th, 2022 – International Human Rights Day, celebrating the 74th anniversary of the United Nations’ proclamation of the UDHR – we will walk a path which, in its opposite direction, has become known as the Balkan route. It will take us to eleven different countries – Austria, Slovenia, Hungary, Croatia, Bosnia, Serbia, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Bulgaria, Greece and Turkey – and to territories where political tensions have caused violence, war, and deep cracks. These regions have seen migration movements for centuries, and the Balkans remain among the hot spots of European migration policy to date.
Our project is in many respects a borderline experience: geographically, personally, and physically. Multiple times we will leave the EU’s external borders, asking ourselves: What does it mean to be Fortress Europe? How does this affect us? How do we respond to ongoing, systematic human rights violations against refugees, to illegal pushbacks, reports of torture, rape, and methodical violence in detention centres just outside Europe’s thresholds?