Cover of the OneState Embassy Passport
03. September 2025
Behind the Lens
The OneState Embassy Passport
by OneState Embassy Art Collective
The OneState Embassy Passport is a collective, performative artwork enacted in real time and space by the OneState Embassy Art Collective - a conceptual initiative founded by Palestinian and Israeli artists. Staged as a live diplomatic intervention, the work invites participants to receive a unique passport that subverts the logic of nation-states and instead proposes a civic, borderless identity rooted in shared humanity.
Each passport page features original contributions by artists from conflict and post-conflict zones, forming a plurality of responses to the structural violence of borders, inequality, and exclusion. Our intervention draws on the aesthetics of statecraft - documents, rituals, and authority - only to subvert them. We imagine citizenship not as a mechanism of exclusion, but as a commitment to civil responsibility, mutual recognition, and universal equality.
As both a physical object and a political-aesthetic document, the passport becomes a site of embodied resistance. Through this live action, participants are invited to reconsider the notion of citizenship - not as a privilege reserved for the few, but as an ethical civic commitment to mutual recognition, shared responsibility, and universal equality. The passport becomes a tool for participation in a living archive of solidarity - one that refuses division and reimagines belonging beyond the nation.
The OneState Embassy Passport traverses the boundaries between the symbolic and the material, between performance and object. It offers a new space in which citizenship, art, and political imagination come together in an act of resistance and collective hope.
Holders of the OneState Embassy Passport enjoy free entry to the Jewish Museum Vienna upon presentation of their individualized passport at the cash desk. This cooperation stems from the Jewish Museum Vienna’s project No Room for Discussion? An Intervention about the World since October 7, 2023 (May 13, 2025 – September 14, 2025).
Each passport page features original contributions by artists from conflict and post-conflict zones, forming a plurality of responses to the structural violence of borders, inequality, and exclusion. Our intervention draws on the aesthetics of statecraft - documents, rituals, and authority - only to subvert them. We imagine citizenship not as a mechanism of exclusion, but as a commitment to civil responsibility, mutual recognition, and universal equality.
As both a physical object and a political-aesthetic document, the passport becomes a site of embodied resistance. Through this live action, participants are invited to reconsider the notion of citizenship - not as a privilege reserved for the few, but as an ethical civic commitment to mutual recognition, shared responsibility, and universal equality. The passport becomes a tool for participation in a living archive of solidarity - one that refuses division and reimagines belonging beyond the nation.
The OneState Embassy Passport traverses the boundaries between the symbolic and the material, between performance and object. It offers a new space in which citizenship, art, and political imagination come together in an act of resistance and collective hope.
Holders of the OneState Embassy Passport enjoy free entry to the Jewish Museum Vienna upon presentation of their individualized passport at the cash desk. This cooperation stems from the Jewish Museum Vienna’s project No Room for Discussion? An Intervention about the World since October 7, 2023 (May 13, 2025 – September 14, 2025).
© Caitlin Gura, Jüdisches Museum Wien
Bird’s eye view of the intervention No Room for Discussion?