Not exact matches
Border Zones and Liminal Bodies This screening features short video art pieces by 12 U.S. and international artists that invite viewers to contemplate
contemporary issues, such as
migration and refugee
crises, disability and the body in movement, feminicide in Ciudad Juárez, water insecurity, and other issues.
This exhibition is rooted in
contemporary events that deal with a current humanitarian
crisis of
migration in the Middle East, but Peters» work captures the unspoken side of this narrative.
The topicality of the global migrant
crisis was evident elsewhere in the activities at this year's Frieze London: a series of Frieze Talks invited speakers and the public to discuss the meaning of» Borderlands», while the Collections Fund at Frieze, supported by the
Contemporary Art Society, enabled the UK's Middlesborough Institute of Modern Art to make acquisitions at the fair of works specifically addressing themes of
migration and displacement by John Akomfrah and Kader Attia.
From mass surveillance to the
migration crisis, anxiety about a world in political turmoil permeated this year's Art Basel, the world's largest
contemporary and modern art fair in Switzerland.
The exhibitions seek to bring attention, knowledge, debate and reflection on this
contemporary global
crisis as well as the issues of the
migration system in Denmark.