Saturday morning kicked off at the Green Fish Resource Centre with the theme of Working From Within. This weekend would be about using ones own lived experience to inform ways of working. Fellow UNIONITES from the North West gave their […]
The majority of my work has references to childhood and this relates to my interest in psychoanalytic thinking. I have personally undergone 8 years of intensive psychoanalysis, where I met my psychoanalyst 5 days per week. This often frightens people […]
By Eh Khu Hser, born 2000 in Thailand This beautiful and tender piece is a recreation of Eh Khu’s house that her parents built in a refugee camp in Thailand. Born here, Eh Khu lived in a refugee camp all […]
About 8 months prior to my residency at Sculpture Space I had made contact with the Mohawk Valley Resource Center for Refugees in order to create a partnership for my project, Borders Unfold. I had wanted to work with Utica’s […]
I managed to catch the incredible exhibition ‘Toward a Concrete Utopia: Architecture in Yugoslavia, 1948-1980’ at Moma. The exhibition is thorough, very engaging and well overdue. ‘The architecture that emerged—from International Style skyscrapers to Brutalist “social condensers”—is a manifestation of […]
I paid a visit to Madison Bouckville Antique Week. It’s the biggest vintage fair you will see without a doubt. It cannot be covered in a day and people tend to return on more than one of the days during […]
I woke up this morning feeling restless; I still haven’t found a way in to the Bosnian community. I had started to sense that perhaps they have settled in a particular part of Utica, where all the restaurants seem to […]
Praised as “the town that loves refugees” in a 2005 issue of Refugees, a periodical publication of the United Nations Commissioner for Refugees, Utica appears to be a unique city. From those I have spoken to in the last few […]
English artist Hannah Rose Thomas organised an art project in Kurdistan for Yezidi women who have escaped ISIS captivity.
Over the last three years I’ve spent time volunteering in Calais and Jordan Refugee Camps, organising art projects for refugees and coming face to face with the human reality of the refugee crisis.
AUDIOBLOG – Please click here Absence of chair. Nowhere to sit. Nowhere to lay your hat. If I work with the chairs, eventually, then there also has to be a non-chair. Even if only I know it isn’t there. A […]
An artistic and historical response to the European refugee crisis
