A research method based on walking allows mirgrants more agency over the process.
Artists and researchers collaborated with migrant families to address complex, politically and emotionally challenging issues in a nuanced way
The concept of hospitality was central, as audiences engaged with imagined and ‘real’ others, while the gallery space extended a welcoming invitation for public participation, creative re-interpretation and multi-vocality.
Expressions of migrant solidarity through the #1DayWithoutUs campaign sought to counterbalance xenophobic sentiments, offering a multiplicity of migrant voices and experiences in the UK today.
How can the Union Jack be made more open, more participatory, more held in common?
Citizens have a right to actively participate in making knowledge about the societies of which they are a part and opening them to democratic contestation, intervention and reinvention.
Intrigued by East India Company shops appearing in contemporary London, artist Laura Malacart shows that an Indian businessman buying the East India Company doesn’t yet constitute a final victory over empire.
It is our sedentary bias, our belief that mobility and migration are the exception rather than the rule, which fuels this distrust of the mobile – but anyone can experience displacement.
In On a Wing and a Prayer, we cross London's Rotherhithe tunnel by foot, mirroring the journey of people like Abdul Haroun – arrested on arrival. Why are some rewarded for making such a journey, others incarcerated?
How can we use participatory photography as a tool for emancipation, unlearning assumed hierarchies between artists, subjects, and audiences?
Can Gil Doron’s intriguing proposals to remix different heritages in a national flag aid processes of cultural syncretism?
What is the role of the gallery or museum in responding to the most urgent and pressing social and political crises of our time?
