Participatory Performance at Manifesta Palermo 2018

Drawing attention to the global immigration crisis. London-based Kate Daudy obtained the tent early 2016 from UNHCR, the United Nations Refugee Agency. The work, entitled Am I My Brother’s Keeper?, has already been shown in Segovia, Brussels, the Edinburgh Festival, Saatchi Gallery London, the European Parliament in Brussels and Saint Paul’s Cathedral.

The piece, of a global political significance, has been invited to the Vatican and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC.

The tent was sited in the Za’atari refugee camp in Jordan and has been embroidered with phrases and quotations picked up by Daudy in conversations with refugees, diplomats and aid workers across 60 countries caught up in the migrant crisis.

These statements include: “We have lost our childhood, all of us.” The average stay in a refugee camp is around 17 years, Daudy says. Decorative crochet elements covering the tent were made by “internally displaced” women in Syria; these crochet circles were brought out of the war-torn country via an intricate network of journalists, filmmakers and aid workers.

Manifesta Palermo 12 website

Ensuing repercussions

Aquarius ship with 600 migrants on board is rejected from the city of Palermo 2018 during Manifesta 12

UNHCR ambassador Kate Daudy

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