Unlocked Archive - website launch and digital exhibition developed in dialogue with global communities of people identifying as asylum seekers, refugees, migrants or stateless.
We are delighted to invite you to the launch of a brand new online art exhibition, Unlocked Archive. You will be welcomed to this digital exhibition developed in dialogue with global communities of people identifying as asylum seekers, refugees, migrants or stateless and offered an opportunity to ask questions to the contributors.
Led by Professor Marie Gillespie of the Open University, this project gathers responses to the COVID-19 pandemic and situates them within the broader landscape of multiple crises – migration, systemic racism, climate change and austerity.
The exhibition is a curated space – a living archive – containing images, films, audio soundings, drawings, playlists and testimonies which are presented in a series of rooms. Together, these inhabited spaces explore domestic, political and precarious environments through home, food, community, friendship, care, solidarity and love. The title of each room emerged through the process of growing and sharing our digital archive together. Some contributors wish to remain anonymous whilst others are named.
We will introduce the project, offer you a guided tour of the exhibition and invite your contributions so please join us to find out more. We will be exploring a range of questions, including:
- What kind of local and global social experiments has the COVID-19 pandemic triggered?
- Are we ready to imagine and fight for new social worlds?
- How can we all learn from the artful resistance of those of us on the margins?
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This event is organized by jointly organized by the International Institute of Social Studies (Documenting the Undocumented), The Open University, Swansea Asylum Seekers Support, University of Wales and Swansea Women's Asylum and Refugee Group.