A semi-fictive car race across Kosovan-European migration spaces, the project spread rumours and eluded stagings as it oscillated between unpredictable encounters, pseudo-events and political fictions. Did it happen, or was the event a non-event?

“Black Benz Race builds on a rumour, one that invents itself and become its own precursor. Nocturnal things done by Albanians, the well-tended roads of Switzerland become a funfair ride, the clean sliproads of Schiphol yield to wheels cycling in contrary directions. Dreamers clad as taxi drivers start to move in unrequested ways. Who knows what happens?
The rumour of unprecedented events, secret cavalcades add magic to life, the idea that something moves somewhere in a way that doesn’t map across to the furrows worn into the surface of experience by repetition. Spreading a rumour of improper behaviour, the re-sorting of social patterns in a way that allows the ideas of freedom to be inhabited by those without the proper papers, loosens reality up to the generation of more than one kind of fabulation. The decades of rule by border and by bank balance have depleted the pockets of space available to dream, to make things up, to take things slowly, or at the right speed. At the same time as creative milieu are turned into factories, bring them from back to front in a way that disembowels them, spreading rumours, building up the material traces of their possible verification re-populates reality, even if only tentatively with the possibility that things might move in ways other than they are supposed to.” Matthew Fuller

Testcase BlackBenzRace, Swiss Glacier Furkapass