The Green Card can be won in a free lottery organised on the Internet by the American government. The project EU Green Card Lottery mirrors the program and suggests to Americans that they should reverse the immigration flow by demanding a green card to Europe. The moment Société Réaliste (“Realistic Society”) launched the website of the project, it was besieged by demands from Third World candidates unaware that it was a fake.
The installation at the Biennale invites visitors to take the point of view of the immigration officer who has to review myriads of identity data and portraits of candidates for the European Green Card.
As the artists explained in an interview for Provision Library, the project addresses immigration management in our ‘globalized,’ ‘cosmopolitan’ world: Whereas it is considered a primary right for citizens to choose where they want to live, as soon as it concerns a non-Western person, this right vanishes.
About the Author
0 comments: