Anything to Declare?

Anything to Declare? Thinking Outside the Border

What is a border? A threshold? A line drawn to divide, to contain, to protect—or to exclude? Anything to Declare? explores how these man-made boundaries bend, mutate, and leak, inviting us to imagine what lies beyond.

The second season of THEHOST.IS challenges residents to stretch, unravel, and redesign the idea of freedom and the limits that define it. Three artists working between art and technology—Liva Dudareva, Pablo Somonte Ruano, and Jazmin Morris—experiment along the edges of poetics, politics, and movement, responding to the enforced borders we cross, the borderless flow of ecology, and the gravitational constraints that hold us down.

Hosted by Hyphen-Labs, the residency at Deichtorhallen Hamburg and Kampnagel examines the question, “Where can my body go?” and how technology both supports and entraps us.

Exploring the ideological and emotional dimensions of borders, Anything to Declare? reimagines invisible walls that confine and define our experiences. The featured works uncover hidden histories, negotiate possible futures, and offer alternative presents—through post-detonative geofutures, speculative Caribbean-inspired hardware, and anti-capitalist visions of counter-economies.

With soundscapes by Renu Hossain and cellist Peter Pearson, the residency reveals how real and imagined spaces intertwine—remapping the boundaries between digital and physical life.

THEHOST.IS is a hybrid residency by Deichtorhallen Hamburg and Kampnagel, part of Diversify the Code, supported by the German Federal Cultural Foundation’s Kultur Digital program.