Gigi Scaria's work deals with the painful truths
of migrancy and displacement by investigating and depicting urban topographies, modern city structures and the intended and unintended consequences for those who live amongst them.
Their multidisciplinary practice engages with the architectures
of migrancy and frameworks of space in relation to errant bodies.»
Drawing on thousands of hours of interviews with migrant families, the authors describe the existence of a «culture
of migrancy» that «fosters its own continuance and is, in many ways, counterproductive to education.»
Not exact matches
And, beyond that, how artists have responded to new forms
of economic colonisation,
migrancy, as well as radicalised reactions to economic inequality and lingering institutional racism.
The works
of both artists deal with the experience
of Africans in post colonial settings fraught with
migrancy, gender inequality and homophobia, as well as navigating complexities
of memory.
«Chamber
of Mines», named for a local organization
of mine owners, is their collaborative attempt to visually assay big ideas like labour, capitalist production, insecurity and
migrancy.
The works
of both artists deal with the experience
of Africans in post-colonial settings fraught with
migrancy, gender inequality and homophobia, as well as navigating complexities
of memory.
Her research interests focus on the social imaginary, the idea
of a «fictional public», temporal contingencies,
migrancy and newness as a condition for art making.
Referencing South African writer Njabulo Ndebele's injunction to rediscover the power
of the ordinary, this conversation focuses on Mathison's sculptural practice which shows us how the ordinary is intimately connected to and revealing
of wider political circuits
of labour and cultivation,
of power, globalisation and
migrancy.