Portals to the Future

Portals to the Future is a citywide artistic intervention and exhibition exploring how we might imagine humane futures for migration. Developed by artist-researcher Carolyn Defrin, the project brings together two interconnected works created in dialogue with people living and working across contemporary borders.

Throughout Graz, "Doors to the Future" can be found. QR coded stickers and posters act as listening stations, inviting the public into immersive audio experiences. Originally developed in Samos, Greece, these sound works invite visitors to pause, listen, and step into speculative futures shaped by care, connection, repair, and coexistence.

The journey culminates in "Past portals to future worlds"
–exhibitionof thirty-two artworks created with participants from Europe, Africa, and the Americas. Together, the works explore how imagination itself can become a civic practice.

The program also includes a public walking tour and a conversation with members of the NOMIS research project Elastic Borders: Rethinking the Borders of the 21st Century, which is led by Bilgin Ayata at the University of Graz and reflects on this interdisciplinary collaboration.

Universität Graz
Universitätsplatz 3, 8010 Graz
www.kfunigraz.ac.at/
+43 (0) 316 380 2146
Haltestelle Universität: Buslinie 63
Haltestelle UNI/Mensa: Buslinien 31,39,41,63
Haltestelle Zinzendorfgasse: Buslinien 31,39

Parkplätze in der Umgebung (tagsüber blaue Zone)