The Limbo Party is a project in collaboration with a group of ‘limbo experts’. It focuses on the agency of a self-organised group of refugees in southern Sweden, initially meeting together under the pretext of Swedish language learning and later advancing to encompass a wide range of practical and leisure activities. The Limbo Party explores questions such as: What is the relationship between middle states, potential states and suspended states in relation to migration? How can spatio-temporal concepts such as limbo and twilight be metaphorically connected to the state(s) of waiting for asylum or other permits? 

Together we interpreted and materialised concepts of limbo, investigating its limits and potentialities as a fertile, subversive and creative space. The first part of the process connected the contemporary reality of refugees living in Blekinge with a nearby iron-age pagan cult site. Banners were produced and placed on the ‘Dansbana’ (a typical space for dancing during social gatherings) of the local social centre followed by a party and twilight walks through the area of great archaeological significance.

A second phase saw the conception and creation of a messanger-object from limbo and its ‘finding’ in the local landscape along with the the message/gift it was sent to communicate.

The Limbo Party involved the participation of the Tivoli Föreningen group of refugees in Blekinge and was supported by the Canada Council for the Arts and ABF group. Special thanks to Abir, Ahmad Daneal, Karim, Ksenia, Noora, Rana, Sara, Sepehr, Sabina, Sebastian, Annika, Alice and Nuria.

A trailer of the 25 min video can be seen here.