THE EXPERIENCE and perilous journeys of immigrants will be explored in three video installations which will be shown in Galway as part of the TULCA Festival of Visual Art.
The exhibitions are by artists Susanne Bosch and Anthony Haughey and will involve one joint show and two solo shows.
Bosch and Haughey’s Progress II will be shown in Bar 8, The Docks, from Mondays to Fridays between 4pm and 7pm, throughout TULCA.
In 2008, the artists invited 11 recent migrants to Ireland to participate in the production of a dialogical video work. Each participant created a personal narrative which was later used to generate a ‘conversation’ performed in a communal setting around a dinner table. The event was documented using a constantly moving video camera.
Bosch’s audio-visual installation Subjects That Don’t Count, Places That Are Not Important, examines the experiences of six migrants, including refused asylum status, deportation, torture, broken families, and generational and gender conflicts.
Nearly 6,000 immigrants have died on the frontiers of Europe since 1988 as thousands of migrants attempt life-threatening journeys from sub-Saharan Africa.
Haughey’s Prospect is a metaphoric journey filmed in the Western Sahara Desert and off the coast of Malta. Three migrants make the perilous journey and find ‘temporary’ refuge in Malta - reckoned to be the most densely populated territory in Europe.
Both these exhibitions will be shown in The Docks Shed, Galway Harbour, Mondays to Fridays (4pm to 7pm ) and Saturdays and Sundays (12 noon to 7pm ), throughout TULCA.
TULCA runs from November 6 to 21. Admission to all events is free. For more information contact www.Tulca.ie
