This project was a collaboration between the Centre du Jour Pour Migrants de la Croix Rouge in Geneva and the art collective RSVP (Rachel Rothwell, Stoja Vukovič and Vesna Bilanovič). Our remit was to work with the migrants making use of the day centre to create an art project as a part of our MA programme.
Our objectives were to design a creative solution acceptable to all, and avoid fetishising the precarious status of our collaborators. We held a series of storytelling workshops, using everyday objects as vectors to start our conversations. Through animated conversations and many laughs, we shared cultural experiences, personal stories and childhood memories.
We kept a written transcript of these discussions, and used this to make a ‘script’. We changed the names of everyone and used an actor to record the script in order to respect the privacy of participants.
This piece was exhibited as part of the 2019 ‘Entrelacs’ show, and the audio can be found below:
