ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book opened with Adrian Paci's Temporary Detention Center, a single-channel video installation that transforms an airport, the quintessential place of mobility, into a space of suspension and forced stillness. Point of Departure offers a multisensory simulacrum of the airport experience, reinforced through a filming style that duplicates that of surveillance imagery. It clearly reflects the extent to which European borders function as a decentered, dislocated, and ubiquitous apparatus of exclusion and containment. The Point of Departure evokes an elusive, decentralized notion of a Europe that is defined by the periphery from Turkey, a country long excluded from the European community; and from the United Kingdom, a country with an uncertain relationship with the European Union. It acknowledges the diverse and uneven social relations and encounters of the heavily surveilled airport landscape.
