Arts, Media and Sports (2010), is a portal between an inside and outside; an homemade security gate to Jimmie Durham’s world. Besides this sort of barrier, a broken machine with fake cables lies on the floor inviting the viewer to cross it as a metaphor of the entrenched border between cultures and nations established by humans over the centuries. The sculpture engages with the ideas of geographical, political and imaginary self-imposed borders and how they became places of conflict. The work was created on the occasion of Durham’s first solo exhibition in 2010, as part of the Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art. The artist spent three months in the Scottish residency where he realised works that have something in common with the Scottish culture. Arts, media and Sports, focuses also on the story of the Mohawk warrior and artist Joe David, one of the leaders in the demonstrations in Quebec that were sparked by a move to expand a nine hole golf course onto an ancestral Mohawk burial site. The installation ironically refers to the aforementioned story, where sport, media and subsequently art are involved as a means of protest. At the core of Durham’s practice is the combination of natural elements with manufactured objects, mostly found and reanimated by the artist himself.