FROM CITY TO CITY – TOGETHER

Liner notes

Where touring and critical thinking meet. When touring around the world and going to new places we always wonder what kind of people we will meet. Whether they are closely connected to their local cultures and practices or a product of a globalizing world. In most cases it’s the latter; we meet like minded people, living similar lives to our own. They just happen to be a couple of thousand kilometers away.

Simultaneously there are encounters with people living only 5 km away whose ideas and lifestyle are extremely hard to relate to. People that grew up pretty much the same way we did, who have completely different views. This shows in cities with relatively progressive majors, in quite conservative countries. Differences between countries might have declined, within countries they seem to have grown. Sometimes Bogota, Colombia feels nearer than Groesbeek.

Over the last decades people started to believe the world would become a unified global village through international trade, growing individual mobility and the internet. Looking at today’s world, that project has not yet succeeded. Even though malls and shopping districts worldwide look exactly alike with all the same shops, (groups of) people still seem to live on their respective islands. But the connection between those islands is getting stronger and stronger.