The Book of Journeys
THE BOOK OF JOURNEYS began in 2012 as an ongoing, multistage project examining the subject of migration through the concept of "journeys" in myriad forms. It has at its core an ethos of ethnographic research and collaboration with communities and artists. We are interested in the idea of how identities are reimagined through crossing borders, as well as how this impacts host communities. But beyond the noise of mass media and their agenda, on a distinctly human scale.
Chapter One examined economic migration from Africa, and drew on medieval travel narratives as its inspiration. Chapter Two focuses on those who displaced because of war - people who are known as "refugees" - and, perhaps naturally given the time of its conceiving (2013), decided to look to Syria. However, the sheer diversity of the displaced population, the variance in experience, and the enormous amount of research we have accumulated, has resulted in more than one project and spiralling into a more fluid structure. Some of these are seen in other projects - Beirut, Portals - while others still await their final transformation, existing as images and ideas yet to be crystallised into form.
In terms of process, it begins from a visual arts perspective and then branches off into various divergent strands of creative exploration. All strands are but paths from a common beginning leading...who knows where. After all, the best journeys are not meticulously planned but are rather, purely random.
http://www.lelivredevoyages.org/
Chapter One examined economic migration from Africa, and drew on medieval travel narratives as its inspiration. Chapter Two focuses on those who displaced because of war - people who are known as "refugees" - and, perhaps naturally given the time of its conceiving (2013), decided to look to Syria. However, the sheer diversity of the displaced population, the variance in experience, and the enormous amount of research we have accumulated, has resulted in more than one project and spiralling into a more fluid structure. Some of these are seen in other projects - Beirut, Portals - while others still await their final transformation, existing as images and ideas yet to be crystallised into form.
In terms of process, it begins from a visual arts perspective and then branches off into various divergent strands of creative exploration. All strands are but paths from a common beginning leading...who knows where. After all, the best journeys are not meticulously planned but are rather, purely random.
http://www.lelivredevoyages.org/
