Creative Responses to Immigration Detention and Deportation
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Please join Border Criminologies at what we hope will be the first of a series of events on creative approaches to border control. We have three artists who will present recent work they have done in three different mediums: music, film, and poetry. They will discuss the creative process, how it intersects or does not intersect with academic work on border control, and how it might be used in activism and policy work. This will be a hybrid event, so you can sign up in person or online.
The three artists are:
Emma Brierley is a Maker, Designer, Socially Engaged Artist and Cultural FieldWorker with 20 years experience in projects that intersect arts, community, ecology and social justice. Emma will be screening their short animated film BORDR, made in collaboration with Gabriel Harrell, Felipe Bustos Sierra, Robyn Dawson, Jayson Turner and Mary Bosworth.
Contact details: @temporarycommons / www.temporarycommons.com
Anna De Mutiis is a multi-lingual creative arts facilitator with over 10 years of experience working with organisations supporting refugees, asylum seekers, immigrants, vulnerable adults and youths through music making and the arts. Find out more about her work and approach.
Anna will be presenting ‘39 Alpha, 39 Bravo - The sound of detention’s economies’, an uncanny sonic journey through the 24 hours of Campsfield House Immigration Removal Centre in 2016, from the perspective of Pilo Moreno, the co-producer of this track and expert by experience. Pilo guides the listeners through a whole day in Campsfield House, retracing a generic day, a recurring and repeating sequence throughout the 5 months he spent there.
Ambrose Musiyiwa is a poet and journalist with a background in the intersection between activism, migration, and community action. He coordinates Journeys in Translation, an international, volunteer-driven initiative that is translating Over Land, Over Sea: Poems for those seeking refuge (Five Leaves Publications, 2015) into other languages. He is also on the editorial board of the Africa Migration Report Poetry Anthology Series. His work can be found on the Forced Migration and The Arts blog and at La Manche: Journal of English Channel Poetry.
Ambrose will be reading some of his poetry and talking about the process of writing and working collaboratively for change.
