Call out for participants art project raising awereness for refugees

Aankondiging, gepost door: nn op 14/06/2013 06:01:54

Wanneer: 14/06/2013 - 12:46

The point of the whole thing is people understanding that refugees are not a number or an idea, that they´re people just as them, their friends, their neighbors, etc. The idea is to intervene spaces in which people usually alienate themselves and confront them with the hard reality some people live here, in their country.

So, if anyone can help, I´d love to get together, discuss ideas and just do something!


I'm a photographer and activist, part of the honduran resistance movement. I´ve focused my work on social movements in Honduras after 2009´s coup d´etat, land occupations, sexual diversity movement, etc. Coming from a very conflictive side of the world I, of course, feel deeply about the immigrants situation in general here in the Netherlands, and particularly about the refugees. Therefore, I´d like to do something, anything about it.

Basically I´d like to visit the squatted places the refugees are staying at, meet them and try to understand this situation better, and I´d also like to visit as many immigrants as possible to have a better idea of how people live here and how they feel about their cultural background. If it were possible to arrange meetings with people who are active in squatted places so they wont feel like I came out of nowhere, that´d be great.

Secondly, thinking about what´s going with the refugees in the detention center in Rotterdam, and mostly thinking about the photos I´ve seen of them standing in front of the windows, I thought we could intervene a public space using Photos of dutch people aswell as immigrants portrayed as if they were refugees standing in front of the windows of the detention center. The idea would be to either build a wall, or intervene walls, and then maybe have an action with musicians, activist, etc. We would need some materials, hands, and printing some stuff, so I don´t know how possible it is to do it. The point of the whole thing is people understanding that refugees are not a number or an idea, that they´re people just as them, their friends, their neighbors, etc. The point is to make people uncomfortable in places were normally things are very comfortable, where you go shopping or meet for lunch with you friends, to make them understand that bad, ugly things happen here just as they do in those far places that appear on TV. The idea is to intervene spaces in which people usually alienate themselves and confront them with the hard reality some people live here, in their country.

So, if anyone can help, I´d love to get together, discuss ideas and just do something!

Ariel Sosa:
apocson@hotmail.com
0620706398
You can see some of my work here (although I haven´t updated for quite some time): http://arielsosa90.wix.com/portfolio#!portafolio/chzb
or facebook of course: https://www.facebook.com/ariel.sosa.1217



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