Bordered Lives, Immigration Detention Archive
Mary Bosworth, Khadija Von Zinnenburg Carroll and Christoph Balzar.
Sternberg Press
English
144 Pages
211 x 310 mm
2020
ISBN 9783956793714
Drawing on original documents, photographs, and detainee artwork, this book offers a unique insight into the experience of immigration detention in the United Kingdom. With interdisciplinary backgrounds in art, design, and criminology, the authors present views of everyday life under this form of border control. In offering a glimpse within these hidden sites, they explore fundamental questions about coercion, censorship, and control, as well as belonging and resistance.
This book introduces the Immigration Detention Archive and reflects on the conditions under which art is supposed to be produced (and is undermined) in institutional spaces. Mixing shadow puppetry, photographic slides, video, architectural models, and spoken word, Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll’s performance Men in Waiting presents the effects of indeterminate detention, bureaucratic indifference, and banality on the subjectivity of the incarcerated.
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(source: https://research.monash.edu/en/persons/mary-bosworth)
Khadija Von Zinnenburg Carroll works site-specifically on performances, installations, books and films. Often in collaboration and over long periods of artistic-research, their projects include monographs, theatre plays, performance lectures, video installations and text based works. Khadija Von Zinnenburg Carroll research is grounded in an interest in history, they have a PhD in Art and Architectural history from Harvard University. Von Zinnenburg is a Professor at the University of Birmingham. Chair of Global Art where they are focussed on contemporary art beyond the confines of the discipline. Von Zinnenburg works as an infrastructural activist within and against institutions including national museums, universities and galleries. Their interests range widely from colonialism to plants to surveillance.
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Christoph Balzar is a curator and art historian with a thematic focus on the emergence of museums in the 19th and 20th centuries, on postcolonial theory and art education. In his dissertation at the University of Bonn, he examined the museumisation of sanctuaries of living cultures from colonial employment contexts with regard to structural and epistemic violence. Balzar organizes socially committed projects and artistic and scientific exhibitions at home and abroad.
(source: https://www.uni-potsdam.de/de/kunst/professur-fuer-kunstpaedagogik-und-didaktik/team/christoph-balzar)
About the Publisher
Sternberg Press grew out of the small publishing house known as Lukas & Sternberg, founded in 1999 by Caroline Schneider. With a focus on art criticism, theory, fiction, and artists’ books, the Berlin-New York based publishing endeavor was set in motion with a pocket book series—edited in part with Nicolaus Schafhausen. Dedicated to an expanded notion of writing on art, Sternberg Press has created a formidable platform in which practitioners from the fields of art and culture (architecture, design, film, politics, literature, and philosophy) can engage in a critical discourse. Each book is a special object celebrating creative publishing at its best, based on both meticulous editorial decisions and distinctive design. Through both commissioned and translated works, Sternberg Press seeks out the blind spots within contemporary discourse and offers a timely response to the related debates.
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