Location: Belfast
Date: 7 November 2018
Time: 12:00 - 14:00
What contribution can art make to how we think about identity, belonging, migration and citizenship? Come along to our Learning Lab where we will look at how participatory arts can raise public awareness of issues such as migration, displacement, placemaking, citizenship and the production of social democracy.
The workshop will look in particular at how the art and activism of migrants and refugees is challenging notions of democratic citizenship. Artists are audaciously inserting themselves into, and pushing the boundaries of controversial political debates, challenging dominant interpretations of the parameters of citizenship and belonging.
The Learning Lab will draw on the collaborative work done between The Open University and Counterpoints Arts as part of the Tate Exchange. Counterpoints Arts is a leading national organisation in the field of arts, migration and social change, supporting and producing art by and about migrants and refugees, seeking to ensure that their contributions are recognised and welcomed within British arts, history and culture. The Learning Lab will enable participants to explore some of these interventions, and the contribution they make to creatively and radically reimagining the map of democratic citizenship in the UK.
Further information
- Venue: The MAC Belfast, 10 Exchange Street West, Belfast BT1 2NJ
- Contact: Agnes Czajka (email: agnes.czajka@open.ac.uk)
- Register to attend on the event website
- Twitter: @ESRCFestivalNI
This event is organised by the Open University NI.