EU border voices
Jul 13, 07:06 AM
On a sound research visit to the EU border of Bosnia and Herzegovina I visited and spoke to different individuals stuck in B&H to transport their voices to document an art exhibition in 2022. In this recording me and friends were welcomed by a group of people to their temporary home the so called "Family Squat" located outside of Velika Kladuša.
There are 3-8 people sleeping in one room, carpets cover the floor, there is improvised and self-built chimneys to heat the room while its snowing outside. The windows of the house are closed with wood to keep the heat. In the other rooms there is people cooking, doing daily tasks and communication via phone to plan the next moves.
They all went on the game already for several times, trying to cross the border to Croatia but they got pushed back brutally and illegally again to Bosnia and Herzegovina where they stay in squats, camps, forests and temporary shelter. We were shown a video of a pushback where the police attacks the people with dogs while they were sleeping in the field. Afterwards we asked for messages they would like to transport to the people inside the EU to get to know about their situation and struggles.
Recorded in Velika Kladusa by Beat Theofried Alto Sandkühler.
Part of the Migration Sounds project, the world’s first collection of the sounds of human migration.
For more information and to explore the project, see https://www.citiesandmemory.com/migration
There are 3-8 people sleeping in one room, carpets cover the floor, there is improvised and self-built chimneys to heat the room while its snowing outside. The windows of the house are closed with wood to keep the heat. In the other rooms there is people cooking, doing daily tasks and communication via phone to plan the next moves.
They all went on the game already for several times, trying to cross the border to Croatia but they got pushed back brutally and illegally again to Bosnia and Herzegovina where they stay in squats, camps, forests and temporary shelter. We were shown a video of a pushback where the police attacks the people with dogs while they were sleeping in the field. Afterwards we asked for messages they would like to transport to the people inside the EU to get to know about their situation and struggles.
Recorded in Velika Kladusa by Beat Theofried Alto Sandkühler.
Part of the Migration Sounds project, the world’s first collection of the sounds of human migration.
For more information and to explore the project, see https://www.citiesandmemory.com/migration