BreauxZine 39/12, Issue 04, 26 Pages
2021, Berlin, Germany / Zurich, Switzerland
Passpot Zine is a reinterpretation of Bilgin Ayata’s “Affective citizenship” with the main focus on the Swiss post-migrant society. A passport states the relationship of an individual to the state they’re living in. The denial of granting citizenship is not only a political but also a personal matter.
This project discovers the possibilities of an affective post-migrant passport, where everything in the passport is written by the owners themselves, especially their “home” which can be better clarified through the german word “Heimat”, meaning a physical and non-physical home coming from people’s own affect. The cover of the zine is a adjusted design of the Swiss passport. It replaces the four official Swiss languages German, French, Italian and Romansh with the English addition with the languages Albanian, Turkish, Arabic, Serbian and Bosnian. These are the most common languages amongst non-western-eurpean migrants in Switzerland.
Each person also has their own page in the passport stamped with allthe stages and stops of migration they’ve been through. With this project I gave all the participants the possibility of deciding on their own relationship to their government and thus their past, present and future.
