“Lend your humanity – free movement for the people of the World.” Poster from the Migration Now portfolio by Thea Gahr from Justseeds Artists’ Coorperative. For more information see: www.migrationnow.com and www.justseeds.org
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‘Lend Your Humanity’ by Thea Gahr
The Refugee Protest March: “Let’s walk and see where it takes us”
A suicide at the beginning of 2012 in the southern German asylum camp, Würzburg, triggered off an urge to start a protest among people living in other camps. An important issue was to prevent the…
Found in Translation – Notes on meeting and understanding pain
To meet another person often means to meet someone you do not fully understand. There is a gap between us. A gap to be bridged if we want to relate to each other in a…
Displacement is the New Translation
By Kenneth Goldsmith ≠ Odd things appear. Things that I don’t understand. Things that I didn’t ask for. Things that I find ugly, strange, baffling, offensive. I don’t know how they got there. Translation is…
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By Jimmy
Refugee Label Obliterates Personal Identity
When an individual is transformed into a ’refugee,’ great personal consequences follow in terms of the way in which the surrounding society regards this individual. Despite very different personalities and backgrounds, individuals are portrayed as…
Roskilde Festival 2012
In the summer of 2012 visAvis went to the Roskilde Festival. We wrote articles every day which were then displayed on our newspaper-wall. In this way we were able to maintain a dialogue with the…
Interview With Mohammad Shoja Tajik
Interview With Mohammad Shoja Tajik, An Afghan Artist by Rasmus Brink Pedersen • Photo by amorn bunsri We are sitting in Mohammad Shoja Tajik’s room, in a container behind the former psychiatric hospital, which is…
First Year Immigrant
by Noura Bittar • Illustration by Mia Isabel Edelgart So it has been a year. God, I feel it has been a thousand years. I had heard a lot about the first year as an…
If the Sea Could Talk
Imagine if the sea could talk. Unfortunately it is impossible, but if possible this would be the time to lend our ears to different sounds, cries and songs but also to the many testimonials filled…
