The Invisible Borders project has been on since 2009, and this year, the group of artistes will travel from Lagos, Nigeria, to Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina, for the first time landing on two different continents.
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Yaounde, Cameroon by Lilian Novo Isioro one of the works from an earlier edition of Invisible Borders
The 2014 edition started on June 2 and would last 151 days.
At a press conference at the Centre for Contemporary Art (CCA), Lagos last week, coordinator of the project, Emeka Okereke, said the Invisible Borders Trans-African Photographers Organisation will be embarking on the fifth edition of their Road Trip Project.
“This trip will be the first Trans-continental road trip of the collective, and will be from Lagos to Sarajevo through 21 countries in Africa and Europe notably Nigeria, Republic of Benin, Togo, Ghana, Cote d’Ivoire, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea, Senegal, Mauritania, Western Sahara, Morocco, Spain, France, Belgium, The Netherlands, Germany, Czech Republic, Austria, Slovenia, Croatia and eventually Bosnia,” he explained.
According to Okereke, in each of the countries, they would have stops of three to seven days, depending on the conditions on the ground. He stated that to make border crossing easier on the trip, which will end on October 31, the project this year has support from the Nigerian government.
The trip will feature photography, writing, video and performance art by 10 African artistes across 20 African and European countries, as well as workshops, presentations and 40 public space interventions at over 40 stops.
With the trips, the organisation intends to collapse the borders that continue to keep citizens of different countries apart.
The artistes this year include: Renee Mboya (Kenya), Emmanuel Iduma and Tom Saater Atedze (Nigeria), Heba Amin (Egypt) Dawit L. Petro (Eritrea) and Angus Mackinnon (South Africa).
During the last four editions, the group explored African countries from the West to the East and Central Africa.