Action Lab on Economic Migration

Starter:   sbarbic Date Created:  May 1, 2008 [view]

Description:   The freeDimensional Action Lab on Economic Migration is interested in investigating the nexus between migration and detention. The Action Lab also wants to share and learn about stories from around... Goals:   (a) visiting detainees (b) online course (planning and media outreach) (c) From April 6-12, the Casa Frela Gallery in Harlem has offered its space in order that members of New York's Senegalese community can meet and plan a unified message on the situation of detained/warehoused Senegalese in the US. This process will culminate in the NYC Immigrant History Week event 'There to Here: African Immigrants in NYC' on April 19th The Shrine (venue) also in Harlem. The first step in the process will be supported by Dutch artists Wouter Osterholt and Elke Uitenhuis who conducted a similar artistic/planning charette (and documentation) on migration in the Netherlands - http://www.publicinterface.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=20&Itemid=68 (d) From April 21-24, freeDimensional will join the community of Santa Fe Art Institute for a lecture and workshop that will build on the experience raising awareness in New York City through a process that allows artists and interested community members to engage in the creation of a campaign that will be carried to Dakar, Senegal during the 2008 Dak'Art Biennale. Whereas the Senegalese community in NYC will add to the testimony of the detained economic migrants, the SFAI workshop will give an artistic treatment to the English/French/Wolof text compiled moving it from mere content to aesthetically viable pamphlet graphically designed to capture the attention of Dakar citizens, art world visitors and international journalists covering the Biennale. (e) operate from base of Atelier Moustapha DIME on Goree Island from May 5

World Congress of Youth in Algeria
Starter:   konanrich Date Created:  Nov 30, -1 Country:  Algeria [view]