<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">From: <a href="mailto:mail@confusionoftongues.com" class="">mail@confusionoftongues.com</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We uploaded the video essay related to our VideoVortex #12 presentation: <a href="https://vimeo.com/389528163" class="">https://vimeo.com/389528163</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Frontex is the governing agency responsible for the management of border control in the Schengen Area. In their ongoing research, the artist-duo Confusion of Tongues analyses the photographs submitted by Frontex staff for the agency’s photo competition, annually exhibited during the European Day for Border Guards. By exploring the competition entries’ relation to the broad range of operational images produced by the agency as a whole, the duo questions the role of aesthetics in Schengen Area border surveillance. For this presentation, they focus on one competition entry in particular: a photograph allegedly rendered from a thermographic dataset that seems to have lost its operative nature through its reappearance in the representational context of The European Day for Border Guards Exhibition in 2014.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thank you all for waiting and all the best,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Marthe and Benedikt</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>