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The Kapikule border crossing between Turkey and Bulgaria. Courtesy the artist. Photo Cressida Kocienski
Exhibition
Nishat Awan
31 Oct 2016 – 27 Nov 2016
Regular hours
- Monday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Tuesday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Wednesday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Thursday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Friday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Saturday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Sunday
- 10:00 – 18:00
Cost of entry
free
Address
- West Bretton
- Wakefield
- WF4 4LG
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
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This autumn, YSP presents an immersive video installation by artist and academic Nishat Awan in the refurbished Bothy Gallery.
About
The exhibition traces a route through the borderlands of the ‘refugee crisis’ narrating stories of migrant journeys and the clandestine crossing of borders. An unfinished and provisional Atlas of European Belonging visualises Europe through its margins and the spaces of transit, movement and stasis produced by those on the move.
This timely project, developed in collaboration with artist Cressida Kocienski, takes as
its starting point the historical connection between the way states represent themselves through maps and how citizens and non-citizens are defined. Awan considers maps to be world-making entities traditionally created by those in power, rather than as visualisations of an already existing world.
Awan, a Lecturer in Architecture at the University of Sheffield, will work with her students in the Bothy Gallery from 10 to 31 October to construct the installation. Between 24 and 28 October, Awan and YSP will host round table discussions with refugees, non-governmental organisation (NGO) representatives and academics working on migration-related issues. Taking place in the Bothy Gallery, the aim is to foster a lively debate on the current ‘refugee crisis’ in Europe.
Awan’s academic research focuses on the intersection of geo-politics and space, in particular working with the topics of migration, borders and diasporas. She is co-author of Spatial Agency(Routledge, 2011), a book that explores other modes of practicing architecture and her current book Diasporic Agencies (Ashgate, 2016), also explores questions of migration.
Migrant Narratives of Citizenship: A Topological Atlas of European Belonging is supported by Independent Social Research Foundation, University of Sheffield and ESRC Festival of Social Science.
