Following the fish: an exhibition, a collection of conversations, a call to action
Following the fish: an exhibition, a collection of conversations, a call to action
This visual essay explores the Catalan exhibition Following the Fish/Toppi jën wi at the Venice Architecture Biennale (2023). The exhibition concentrates on the various geopolitical, economic, and historical forces that have driven many sub-Saharan migrants to flee their homes for the EU, placing them in complexly perilous sites of socio-legal-economic and cultural conditions, ones fraught with danger but also operating in hope with many lessons for EU cities and their civic, public spheres. The exhibition is a collaboration between the Barcelona architectural collective Leve and the organization Top Manta, a Barcelona collective and fashion design manufacturer that creates communal and legal opportunities for migrants who sell their wares on blankets in public squares.
African refugee rights, Venice Architecture Biennale, activist organization
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Bishop, Ryan
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Cid, Daniel
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1 March 2024
Bishop, Ryan
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Cid, Daniel
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Bishop, Ryan and Cid, Daniel
(2024)
Following the fish: an exhibition, a collection of conversations, a call to action.
Cultural Politics, 20 (1), , [8].
(doi:10.1215/17432197-10969266).
Abstract
This visual essay explores the Catalan exhibition Following the Fish/Toppi jën wi at the Venice Architecture Biennale (2023). The exhibition concentrates on the various geopolitical, economic, and historical forces that have driven many sub-Saharan migrants to flee their homes for the EU, placing them in complexly perilous sites of socio-legal-economic and cultural conditions, ones fraught with danger but also operating in hope with many lessons for EU cities and their civic, public spheres. The exhibition is a collaboration between the Barcelona architectural collective Leve and the organization Top Manta, a Barcelona collective and fashion design manufacturer that creates communal and legal opportunities for migrants who sell their wares on blankets in public squares.
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Published date: 1 March 2024
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African refugee rights, Venice Architecture Biennale, activist organization
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/489869
ISSN: 1743-2197
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