My interview for the Blog PERFORMNING BORDERS

Hi there,
Just wanted to share with you an interview with me by Alessandra Cianetti (co-director of Something Human) for her amazing Blog, Performing Borders: Conversations on Live Art  / Crossing  / Europe.
Enjoy it!

Refugees, Immigration Control and Indifference_Lecture by Prof. Gill SOAS 16 Nov 2016, 6pm.

  

Refugees, Immigration Control and Indifference: Reflections on the Role of Distance

Prof Nick Gill (Exeter, Dept of Geography)

Date: 16 November 2016Time: 6:00 PM
Finishes: 16 November 2016Time: 8:00 PM

Venue: Russell Square: College Buildings Room: DLT

Type of Event: Lecture

In this lecture Professor Nick Gill seeks to understand the ways in which border control practices draw forth indifference to refugees. In particular, the recent history of border control in Britain has highlighted various ways in which different forms of distance – literal, cultural and psychological – have been implicated in the nurturing and generation of indifference to migrant suffering and struggle among the public in general and among functionaries within the border control system. Professor Gill offers both a general reflection on the dynamics of indifference, estrangement and remoteness in contemporary immigration control regimes, and a summary of recent findings from research in Britain’s First Tier immigration and asylum tribunal. The discussion concludes by exploring the implications of the dynamics of indifference for activist tactics in pursuit of deborderisation.

Organiser: Centre for Migration and Diaspora Studies
Contact email: cb92@soas.ac.uk

Photo Exhibition: Humans of Calais

Migration from the Perspective of Migrants

This photo exhibition of daily life in the refugee camp in Calais is the result of the research project Humans of Calais, which gives migrants a voice in order to understand their experiences from their own perspective. Residents of the Calais camp were given disposable cameras to record their daily lives in the camp. These visual snapshots, and the migrants’ narratives that accompany them, offer a unique insight into the ways in which migrants build their lives under difficult and makeshift circumstances, whilst also showing their ideas and dreams.
Researchers: Signe Sofie Hansen, Tara Flores, Ishita Singh and Layla Mohseni, MA Students from the Department of War Studies

Location: War Studies Meeting Room (K. 6.07)

Category: Culture, Exhibition

When: 11/11/2016 (17:00) - 02/12/2016 (17:00)

Refugee week 20-26 June in UK

 A series of exciting and interesting events will take place this year during the Refugee Week (20-26 June 2016). The RW is organized and managed by Counterpoint Arts.
Find all details here.

Don't miss the launch of the RW at Southbank Centre on the 19th of June.

The theme of this year RW is WELCOME.

Performing Borders_Conversation on art | crossings | europe (30 March 2016)

Another exciting event soon happening in London!

Performing borders: Conversation on art | crossings | europe is an open dialogue on how artists, researchers and art organisations can use their practices and projects to respond to and challenge the borders of Europe and their shifting meanings.

Guest speakers include: Lois Keidan (Co-Director of the Live Art Development Agency), Sophie Nield (Senior Lecturer in Drama at the Royal Holloway University of London), Juliet Steyn (Co-editor of ‘Breaching Borders: Art, Migrants and the Metaphor of Waste’), Marilena Zaroulia and Philip Hager (Co-Founders of the Inside/Outside Europe Research Network) will present their own perspectives and engage in a discussion on the role of live and visual art in the flux reality of Europe and its proliferating and increasingly heterogeneous borders. 

All those interested in citizenship, crossing borders, and experimental art practices are welcome to bring their own ideas and experiences to the conversation.

All details bout the event here.  
The organizer is my freind Alessandra Cianetti, Co-director of Something Human. 

Check out her blog as well!