Freedom from Torture: Each day, staff and volunteers work with survivors of torture in centres in Birmingham, Glasgow, London, Manchester and Newcastle (and via a capacity-building presence in Yorkshire and Humberside) to help them begin to rebuild their lives. Sharing this expertise with partner organisations in the UK and internationally, Freedom from Torture operates as a Register to read more »
Interference Archive Interference Archive explores the relationship between cultural production and social movements. This work manifests in public exhibitions, a study and social center, talks, screenings, publications, workshops, and an online presence. The archive consists of many kinds of objects that are created as part of social movements by the participants themselves: posters, flyers, publications, Register to read more »
The Embassy for Refugees investigates whether the typology of the embassy can be reinterpreted in order to give ambassadorial status to a humanitarian issue and group of people rather than a country. It asks whether diplomacy can be employed for the marginalised rather than the powerful? Representation for the misrepresented? It is a conceptual investigation Register to read more »
ICORN Guest Writers The International Cities of Refuge Network is an association of cities around the world dedicated to the value of Freedom of Expression. Writers have consistently been targets of politically motivated threats and persecution, and the network believes it is necessary for the international community to formulate and implement an appropriate response. Each Register to read more »
Counter-constructivist Model (La Fontaine stories for immigrants) paper-film in nine acts. Book by Sezgin Boynik and Minna Henriksson. Labyrint Press 2012 Experience We were invited in the Fittja community to make an artwork. 20 years ago there weren’t any public artworks in Fittja. Now just looking at the proliferated parabols, scenery-paintings at the staircases, red stars on the Register to read more »
Transborder Immigrant Tool (TBT) Initiated by Electronic Disturbance Theater (EDT) 2.0/B.A.N.G. Lab Description It’s a mobile-phone technology that provides poetry to immigrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border while leading them to water caches in the Southern California desert.” (Leila Nadir, Hyperallergic) «We looked at the Motorola i455 cell phone, which is under $30, available even cheaper Register to read more »
The project EXPANDED (art) SCHOOL is s a test run for alternative channels and methods in art education. The short term (Tandem project period) aim is to develop a ‘mobile’ platform for exchange of ideas and experiences, through seminars and workshops at various art schools of universities in Anatolia and organize an international Summer Camp with students from Turkey Register to read more »
Ethics and/in/as Silence by Marcel Cobussen abstract Using John Cage’s familiar composition, 4’33”, as the point of departure of this essay, the first part describes how this composition deconstructs the boundaries and (hierarchical) oppositions of noise, silence, and music: music becomes silence, silence becomes noise, noise becomes music. But all this happens within the musical Register to read more »
Open Education Resources (OER) are teaching and learning materials freely available for everyone to use, whether you are a teacher or a learner. This includes full courses, modules, syllabi, lectures, homework assignments, quizzes, lab activities, pedagogical materials, games, simulations, and many more resources contained in digital media collections from around the world. The creation and Register to read more »
When the law forces people to beg for food, it’s criminal. So let’s change it. They have survived war, torture, persecution. Forced to flee their countries, people seek safety in the UK. But if their asylum claim is refused, they can end up with nothing – no home, no money and no right to work. There’s Register to read more »