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Routledge eBooks, Aug 16, 2023
Projecting migration: transcultural documentary …, 2007
In January 2008 artist's Susanne Bosch and Anthony Haughey together with film maker, Kevin D... more In January 2008 artist's Susanne Bosch and Anthony Haughey together with film maker, Kevin Duffy invited eleven individuals to participate in the production of a dialogical video. Most of the group had recently migrated to Ireland (north and south) from countries including, Brazil, ...
This chapter offers a reflection by photographer and academic Anthony Haughey on the recent devel... more This chapter offers a reflection by photographer and academic Anthony Haughey on the recent development of Irish suburbia. It focuses on his work Settlement, ‘a photographic and architectural exhibition exploring the collapse of Ireland’s Celtic Tiger economy epitomised by thousands of unoccupied and unfinished housing estates across the state’. Throughout the chapter the author reflects ‘on the methodological and theoretical paradigms informing the production of Settlement as well as the cultural and political implications of this socially engaged artwork’. He is particularly interested in the phenomenon of the ghost estate, and he documents his own artistic process in photographing ghost estates, while also considering the politics of exhibition of contemporary suburbia.
Introduction As long as we think of refugees solely as victims, we do a grave injustice to the fa... more Introduction As long as we think of refugees solely as victims, we do a grave injustice to the facts of refugee experience, for loss is always countermandered by actions-albeit imaginative, magical, and illusory-to regain some sense of balance between the world within and the world without. 1 In March 2007 I was invited produce a video project with a group of sub-Saharan African refugees living in a former school near Valletta. Whilst working there I was struck by the similarities between Ireland and Malta. Both islands' are peripheral locations on the western and southern edges of Europe. Historically both countries have experienced significant outward migration of its citizens who live all over the world. There are more Maltese and Irish people living outside their respective islands' than in each country itself. Citizens from both countries have experienced other cultures either directly or indirectly through their diasporic family networks. But for the first time both communities are facing the challenge of living in close proximity to the newcomers. In Ireland hospitality to strangers was once considered a fundamental human right under Brehan law. 2 But hospitality is a contested concept. Derrida has argued that hospitality is based upon unequal power relations between the host society and the foreigner and is ultimately connected to maintaining the nation state and physical borders, "by filtering, choosing, and thus by excluding and doing violence. Injustice, a certain injustice, and even a certain perjury, begins right away, from the very threshold of the right to hospitality." 3
Projecting migration: transcultural documentary …, 2007
Routledge eBooks, Aug 16, 2023
Projecting migration: transcultural documentary …, 2007
In January 2008 artist's Susanne Bosch and Anthony Haughey together with film maker, Kevin D... more In January 2008 artist's Susanne Bosch and Anthony Haughey together with film maker, Kevin Duffy invited eleven individuals to participate in the production of a dialogical video. Most of the group had recently migrated to Ireland (north and south) from countries including, Brazil, ...
This chapter offers a reflection by photographer and academic Anthony Haughey on the recent devel... more This chapter offers a reflection by photographer and academic Anthony Haughey on the recent development of Irish suburbia. It focuses on his work Settlement, ‘a photographic and architectural exhibition exploring the collapse of Ireland’s Celtic Tiger economy epitomised by thousands of unoccupied and unfinished housing estates across the state’. Throughout the chapter the author reflects ‘on the methodological and theoretical paradigms informing the production of Settlement as well as the cultural and political implications of this socially engaged artwork’. He is particularly interested in the phenomenon of the ghost estate, and he documents his own artistic process in photographing ghost estates, while also considering the politics of exhibition of contemporary suburbia.
Introduction As long as we think of refugees solely as victims, we do a grave injustice to the fa... more Introduction As long as we think of refugees solely as victims, we do a grave injustice to the facts of refugee experience, for loss is always countermandered by actions-albeit imaginative, magical, and illusory-to regain some sense of balance between the world within and the world without. 1 In March 2007 I was invited produce a video project with a group of sub-Saharan African refugees living in a former school near Valletta. Whilst working there I was struck by the similarities between Ireland and Malta. Both islands' are peripheral locations on the western and southern edges of Europe. Historically both countries have experienced significant outward migration of its citizens who live all over the world. There are more Maltese and Irish people living outside their respective islands' than in each country itself. Citizens from both countries have experienced other cultures either directly or indirectly through their diasporic family networks. But for the first time both communities are facing the challenge of living in close proximity to the newcomers. In Ireland hospitality to strangers was once considered a fundamental human right under Brehan law. 2 But hospitality is a contested concept. Derrida has argued that hospitality is based upon unequal power relations between the host society and the foreigner and is ultimately connected to maintaining the nation state and physical borders, "by filtering, choosing, and thus by excluding and doing violence. Injustice, a certain injustice, and even a certain perjury, begins right away, from the very threshold of the right to hospitality." 3
Projecting migration: transcultural documentary …, 2007