This site - specific security fence installation serves to comment on the humanitarian issues that have arisen from
the global migration crisis.
How efforts to block refugees and asylum - seekers from Europe have only made
the global migration crisis more complex and harrowing
Not exact matches
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.
Through disparate yet interlinking imagery, Akomfrah weaves together cruel visions of the past with current issues around
global migration, the refugee
crisis, slavery, and ecological concerns.
This recognition is achingly urgent today in an era of
global migrations, heightened awareness of inequalities, and San José's own housing
crisis.
Inspired by the international
migration crisis and current
global geopolitical landscape, the exhibition will transform the security fence into a powerful social and artistic symbol with interventions across the city.
Hence their exhibition Life In The UK / Balance Of Possibilities which, by making the gallery into a pretend visa application centre, reflects on
crises of
global economic
migration.
Literature and
global events, such as the
migration crisis, have also fueled works in the exhibition.
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.
Global warming will drive increasingly severe humanitarian
crises, forced
migration, political instability and conflict.
In particular, it will allow for closer cooperation on
global governance issues and support for developing agreements, norms and actions in response to
global challenges such as terrorism and transnational crime, climate change, epidemics, pressure on natural resources, humanitarian
crises, irregular
migration.