Following the fish: an introduction to textual frames for the exhibition

Bishop, Ryan, Simone, Abdou Maliq and Cid Moragas, Daniel (2023) Following the fish: an introduction to textual frames for the exhibition. In, Bishop, Ryan, Simone, AbdouMaliq and Cid, Daniel (eds.) Following the Fish: Quaderns Biennale 2023. 1st ed. Barcelona. COAC, pp. 49-59.

Abstract

In some parts of the world, people survey their situation in relation to othersin other parts of the world and say “We are fortunate.” They rarelyrealize that fortune has little to do with it: that fortune is the residue ofdesign and they the unconscious inheritors of (post-)colonial violence, dispossessionand displacement. They little note that the world does not existto furnish their existence in it. They simply assume it does, and the worldhas been designed to materialize that assumption.Others in those other parts of the world might go to great and hazardouslengths to arrive in the complacent spots of the globe. Their legalstatus and labor options as precarious as their crossings. This too is partof the design of fortune. People rarely aspire to be immigrants or refugeeswhen they are young. Some are forced to be either or both when young,when old, when neither—when choices narrow and telescope to a vanishingpoint on a rapidly receding horizon. As Neferti Tadiar notes in hercontribution to this volume: “To be a refugee is, after all, to be in search ofrefuge in the aftermath of dispossession from the place of one’s sustainedliving.” The refuge the refugee seeks exists in the lacunae and intersticesof privilege.

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