Presentation of
projects: December 10 at 6.30pm, Espai Avinyó (C/Avinyó 52)
Exhibition: December 22- January 10,
Districte de Gràcia (Plaça de la Vila, 2)
‘Performing Home: emerging affective and social challenges of artists and
writers at risk’ is a project that I am carrying out under the umbrella of Jiwar’s ‘Making Neighborhood’ artistic residency. The
project aims to study the affective and social implications that artists face
when they immigrate seeking shelter of political asylum in a new country.
Barcelona has long tradition in being active in sheltering the displaced. Since
2006, the city is part of the International Cities of Refuge Network (ICORN)
and prior to this, it has already been one of the oldest members of the City of
Asylum Network, until it was dissolved in 2005.
By developing ‘Performing Home’ I want to
discover and unfold the main hurdles that displaced artists cope with when they
get to the city and how those have an impact on their work. In other words the
project addresses thought-provoking relevant questions such as: how the notion
of ‘home’ is produced, re-enacted or simulated in the hosting city? How the network
of affects is woven? How homeland and hosting-land dialogue? To what extent
their new living and working conditions affect or reconfigure their artistic
work? To answer this questions, artists from
different backgrounds and nationalities—including Bàssem Al-Nabris (Palestine), Juan Tomás Ávila Laure (Equatorial
Guinea), Conchita Pineda (Venezuela) — have
participated in different workshops and actions to reflect about what home is.
The project will be presented next Thursday 10 at
18.30 at Espai Avinyó and the
resulting atworks will be exhibited at Districte
de Gràcia from December 22 – January 10.
In both events, you will have also the chance to explore the two other
projects resulting from ‘Making Neighbourhood’ created by the artists Deema
Shahin (Jordan) and Israel de la Paz (Mexico).
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