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| Introduction Corrior X by Angela Melitopoulos | |||||||||
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[TIMESCAPES CONCEPT] [BIOGRAPHY]
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The raw material of Corridor X is part of the image database of Timescapes and pictures a road movie about a historical transit road connecting Germany and Turkey via Salzburg, Ljubljana, Zagreb, Belgrad, Nis, Skopje, Veles, Thessalonica and Istanbul.
  Corridor X will be one of the few outcomes. It lays out the process of excavating a subject on migration and infrastructure, and focuses on the conflict of representation and producing documentaries. Questions are raised such as “how long to stay and to document a place” or “how much my involvement in a story changes the initial plan of the research”. From locality (unfolding histories) and the necessity of migration, experiences of different generations of migrants accumulate and develop in parallel.
  The construction of Corridor X has been a significant cooperative undertaking between the European Community and Yugoslavia since 1949. The Yugoslavian part of Corridor X, dubbed the highway of “Brotherhood and Unity” by Tito, was the major European artery. Millions of migrants from Turkey and Greece drove along this highway, westbound to work and eastbound to go back home to “relax”. The Corridor X road movie points to the actual condition of a post-war territory in which the situation of mobility and migration has fundamentally changed towards immobility.
  The road movie investigates the meaning of “travelling back home through a corridor” as a common experience for the first and second generation of migrants living in Germany. It maps a mental condition that comes with the mode of travelling and experiencing of locality. The act of “making a documentary” in a geography signified by media reveals political and historical reservations. Exploring a subject of transition while being in transition connects to the other themes of the Timescapes database as a mezzanine and a no-mans-land. The subject of Corridor X expands between different localities and subjectivities into a necessarily transitional B-Zone.
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