----------empyre- soft-skinned space---------------------- Re: wanting to be thinking on these topologies, freedom *and* survival, repression *and* production,
I did, again last summer, during the first wave of the Syrian refugees, and came upon a figure like this: “Asylum” http://www.christinamcphee.net/asylum/ 2015 oil, graphite, paper collage and ink on muslin 165.7 x 99 x 6.3 cm She is leaving, freedom from, freedom to, and her dress is caught in the maelstrom. Or/and this is not a silhouette, is this a navigation? -cm Ian wrote, > On Feb 16, 2016, at 9:27 AM, Ian Paul <ianalanp...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I think the challenge in many ways for us is in understanding borders and > migrations (and their networks) in their historical specificity, while also > understanding how those specificities are (re)produced in much more expansive > processes that both exceed and precede them. And so, how can we think of > borders and migrations as being both cause and effect? Both agent and object? > Things that both separate and tie together? We should be able to think of > borders as being both productive and repressive, enabling certain forms of > life while seeking to eradicate others. We should be able to think of > migrations as being an expression of freedom and perhaps even poetry, while > also being able to think of them as also at times being driven by necessity > and survival. I want to be thinking on these topologies: freedom *and* > survival, repression *and* production. _______________________________________________ empyre forum empyre@lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au http://empyre.library.cornell.edu
