MIGRATION AND PERFORMATIVE PRACTICES

The Research Centre for Creative Arts, Cultures and Engagement(CREATURE) at London Metropolitan University, brings together interdisciplinary research in the creative arts, its practice, cultural impact and societal engagement.

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How performative and participatory strategies may provide new insights into the experience of migration and asylum-seeking?

This is an online event link to the Teams meeting will be set up shortly. <a href="https://www.londonmet.ac.uk/research/centres-groups-and-units/the-centre-for-creative-arts-cultures-and-engagement-creature/" title="https://www.londonmet.ac.uk/research/centres-groups-and-units/the-centre-for-creative-arts-cultures-and-engagement-creature/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">CREATURE</a> presents an online research event, exploring key question in how performative and participatory strategies may provide new insights into the experience of migration and asylum seeking. The event is centered around two projects, each focusing on the role of creative practice as a vehicle for research in this area of exploration. The first part of the event, led by Dr Natalie Katsou and Debora Minà, reflects on the project ‘Performing the Asylum Law’ and specifically on a series of workshops on asylum law and legal practice that took place across three British Institutions (Goldsmiths, London Metropolitan University and University of Southampton) during March 2025. The main question explored is how theatre and performance can help us interpret the law and respond to different parts of the asylum claim process. The seminar also invites attendees to reflect on the activities discussed and to contribute to next steps and further questions.In the workshops discussed in the seminar paper, students from Theatre and Performance and students from Law co-produced ideas and suggestions in response to the asylum law as a drama play. The creative activities investigated methods of reading statute and identifying blind spots that create obstacles in the process through theatre and performance techniques. The collaborative tasks also included the potential interaction between legal practitioners and claimants. Some areas for discussion include the potential of theatre and performance to develop tools for interpretation, experimentation and meaningful interaction between people on the move and asylum specialists. The goal is to understand parts of the asylum process through embodied methods and produce creative suggestions that improve the experience of people in migration.The activities have been co-designed by Dr Natalie Katsou and Debora Minà. This series of workshops and this event are part of the larger postdoctoral research project conducted by Dr Natalie Katsou under the title ‘Performing Refuge and Asylum: Embodiment and the Law in Greece and in the UK’ at Goldsmiths.In the second part of the event, artist Marina Moreno discusses her project ‘We All Come from Somewhere’. Funded by Arts Council England and originally commissioned by Tate Liverpool in 2019, the project was recently presented at Fondazione Marta Czok in Venice during the 60th Biennale Arte and celebrates the human right to movement and migration, and the cultural richness that this entails. Curated by Dr Jacek Ludwig Scarso, this is an interactive installation, where stories of migration and displacement are shared. Bearing the symbol of the shipyard rope in reference to the ports of Venice and Liverpool, the participants created sculptures, reflecting the distance from their first home and the journeys travelled thereafter. The waterways, in Venice as in Liverpool, resume a history of continuous displacement caused by multiple factors: from economic exchange to the need for political refuge and, again, to imperialism and colonialism. These global factors have a specific impact on the individual, creating an infinite number of personal narratives that reflect the fluidity of what gives us the perception of geographical belonging. <h3>Speakers:</h3><a href="http://www.nataliekatsou.com" title="http://www.nataliekatsou.com" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Dr Natalie Katsou</a><a href="https://www.deboramina.com/" title="https://www.deboramina.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Debora Minà</a><a href="https://www.marinamoreno.co.uk/biography" title="https://www.marinamoreno.co.uk/biography" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Marina Moreno</a> <h3>Moderator:</h3><a href="https://www.londonmet.ac.uk/profiles/staff/jacek-ludwig-scarso-/" title="https://www.londonmet.ac.uk/profiles/staff/jacek-ludwig-scarso-/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Dr Jacek Ludwig Scarso</a> Image credit: ‘We All come from Somewhere’ by Marina Moreno For internal use only: XX064 XX050 XX055 XX051XX005 XX081

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