By Shereen Perera Take Refuge is a sociopolitical experiment initiated by a group of activists at Goldsmiths University who wanted to call attention to our C21st obsession with self care and the idea of “switching off” at a time when we desperately need to “switch on” when speaking about the experiences of refugees and asylum seekers, […]
By Sarah Hickson The informal refugee camp in Idomeni, a village in Northern Greece close to the border with the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM), extended across a vast area of open land around the railway station and the recently erected border fence. Tents and flimsy shelters hugged the train tracks and lined the […]
By Zsuzsi Soboslay I say to you, my friends,..there are certain things in our..world which I am proud to be ‘maladjusted’.. I say very honestly that I never intend to become adjusted to segregation and discrimination..to religious bigotry… to the madness of militarism… It is no longer the choice between violence and nonviolence. It is […]
Call out for submission for an International Performance Lab with Dash Arts. Dash Arts have announced the launch of an International Performance Lab supporting UK-based migrant artists (the Migrant Artists Programme). In late November, Dash Arts will offer an artistic and professional development opportunity exploring performance in the unique Dash Arts style – across art- forms, […]
From Australia, performance-maker Zsuzsi Soboslay writes: In November 2016 I created The Compassion Plays to honour the experience of refugees. I based its structure on the medieval Passion Plays, where Death calls Everyman to take the journey (‘towards judgment’) we all share. But perhaps in our century, the shared journey is into exile: There is […]
By Monika Dorniak Collective Synchronisation: An open invitation to a workshop on biological rhythms 15.01.2017 / Sunday / 11-6pm / Tate Modern, London / Free Teacher: Monika Dorniak, MA Art & Science, Central Saint Martins, mo710y@gmail.com More Information: http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/workshop/tate- exchange/art-school Whether we perceive them consciously, or let them run, rhythms are essential parts of our […]
On 2nd July the Platforma South East network in association with Music for Change and supported by Arts Council England held the launch event for an exhibition at Turner Contempoary in Margate based on the 2016 Refugee Week theme ‘Welcome’. Bringing together newly commissioned work created by, with and about refugees and migrants from marginalised […]
From Live Art Development Agency Open call for proposals from artists to undertake a two-week research-based residency in LADA’s Study Room exploring Live Art practices and methodologies in relation to the experiences of the displaced. The residency The residency is a partnership with Counterpoints Arts and is an opportunity for artists who are, or who […]
Anniversary—an act of memory was a series of solo, collective and multi-lingual recitations from memory of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, led by the artist Monica Ross. Beginning with a solo recitation at the British Library, London 7 December 2008 to mark the 60th Anniversary of the UDHR, the artist’s aim was to realise […]
