Between There and There: Anatomy of Temporary Migrations
The exhibition Between There and There: Anatomy of Temporary Migrations has ensued from the interdisciplinary, anthropological and artistic authorial collaboration of curators Irena Beki膰 and Duga Mavrinac. The project explores personal stories, social and cultural processes created during the movements of temporary migrations of different migrant groups, such as domestic workers and caretakers, physical and seasonal workers, artists in residence, etc. As opposed to the domineering discourse in public space on refugees, asylum seekers and their suffering, we seek to draw attention to the groups of invisible migrants 鈥� the people from our community, our neighbours, acquaintances and family members 鈥� who are mostly left to developing coping tactics of their own, but also to the prejudices of the community from which/in which they arrive.
In the analyses of temporary migrations, policies and methods of integration of migrants are problematized the most, while the analysis and recourses from the so-called 鈥渃ountries of departure鈥� are often neglected or omitted altogether. Therefore the exhibition is focused on three aspects: the tension of being on two addresses, the invisibility in public space and everyday life, and the processes and transformations in countries of departure.
The artworks, created in the period from the 2000s until today, thematically encompass the contemporary temporary migrations and those from the beginning of the past century, or elaborate the question of territorial political boundaries by bearing witness on the constancy of the phenomenon, as well as the long-term artistic preoccupation with the subject beyond its current actualisation.
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The exhibition Between There and There: Anatomy of Temporary Migrations has ensued from the interdisciplinary, anthropological and artistic authorial collaboration of curators Irena Beki膰 and Duga Mavrinac. The project explores personal stories, social and cultural processes created during the movements of temporary migrations of different migrant groups, such as domestic workers and caretakers, physical and seasonal workers, artists in residence, etc. As opposed to the domineering discourse in public space on refugees, asylum seekers and their suffering, we seek to draw attention to the groups of invisible migrants 鈥� the people from our community, our neighbours, acquaintances and family members 鈥� who are mostly left to developing coping tactics of their own, but also to the prejudices of the community from which/in which they arrive.
In the analyses of temporary migrations, policies and methods of integration of migrants are problematized the most, while the analysis and recourses from the so-called 鈥渃ountries of departure鈥� are often neglected or omitted altogether. Therefore the exhibition is focused on three aspects: the tension of being on two addresses, the invisibility in public space and everyday life, and the processes and transformations in countries of departure.
The artworks, created in the period from the 2000s until today, thematically encompass the contemporary temporary migrations and those from the beginning of the past century, or elaborate the question of territorial political boundaries by bearing witness on the constancy of the phenomenon, as well as the long-term artistic preoccupation with the subject beyond its current actualisation.
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