How does artist travel relate to other forms of human mobility? At a time when tensions are high across borders and cultures (and hurdles to mobility increase), citizens, communities and governments are listening to artists and cultural programmers as vanguard voices on complex issues and look to the solutions they propose with renewed interest … even urgency!

Compilation of cases by three intersecting networks:

Res Artis (resartis.org)

freeDimensional (freedimensional.org)

The Upgrade (theupgrade.net)

and presented in the frame of Upgrade International Conference “Soft Borders”

<iframe src=”http://player.vimeo.com/video/15873106″ width=”400″ height=”225″ frameborder=”0″></iframe><p><a href=”http://vimeo.com/15873106″>Vox Pop – Artists & Mobility: Easier to visit Peru than for nationals to leave</a> from <a href=”http://vimeo.com/freedimensional”>freeDimensional</a> on <a href=”http://vimeo.com”>Vimeo</a>.</p>

<iframe src=”http://player.vimeo.com/video/15873230″ width=”400″ height=”225″ frameborder=”0″></iframe><p><a href=”http://vimeo.com/15873230″>Vox Pop – Artists & Mobility: A matter of wealth</a> from <a href=”http://vimeo.com/freedimensional”>freeDimensional</a> on <a href=”http://vimeo.com”>Vimeo</a>.</p>

<iframe src=”http://player.vimeo.com/video/15873288″ width=”400″ height=”225″ frameborder=”0″></iframe><p><a href=”http://vimeo.com/15873288″>Vox Pop – Artists & Mobility: Who has the right to travel?</a> from <a href=”http://vimeo.com/freedimensional”>freeDimensional</a> on <a href=”http://vimeo.com”>Vimeo</a>.</p>

<iframe src=”http://player.vimeo.com/video/15873913″ width=”400″ height=”225″ frameborder=”0″></iframe><p><a href=”http://vimeo.com/15873913″>Vox Pop – Artists & Mobility: International detour for African artist</a> from <a href=”http://vimeo.com/freedimensional”>freeDimensional</a> on <a href=”http://vimeo.com”>Vimeo</a>.</p>

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