virtualmigrants.com - terminal frontiers intro

(this section of the site shows the terminal frontiers exhibition as it was originally presented at Castlefield Gallery, 2002)

NEWS UPDATE: TERMINAL FRONTIERS AT THE ICA
a 'compact' version of the entire Terminal Frontiers exhibition will be shown at the ICA (London) in their New Media Centre for their 'Migrations' series though October. Check this space in early October for details.

terminal frontiers: a digital art exhibition about asylum and globalisation including:

(click an image below for further details)	Don't miss the ARTISTS' TALK and LIVE MUSIC

	"What If I'm Not Real" a 3-screen sculptural installation by the V02 collective: Kuljit 'Kooj' Chuhan (director) + Aidan Jolly, Tang Lin, Miselo Kunda-Anaku, Jilah Bakshayesh and Hafiza Mohammed. The intertwined conflicts between a parent, a child and officialdom are emotively played out to alternating sculptural soundtracks, as a statement about global movements and political entrapments, collective and human responses to brutal policies, produced collaboratively over a period of 2 years. To be accompanied by live music on Thursday evenings.

	"Stranger" a new interactive art work by Keith Piper. The artist has created the means for collaboration and the collection of personal and collective histories through writing, audio and video documentation. It welcomes audiences of all ages and from all communities to effectively take refuge by being able to begin to document their own ‘self-defining collage of history’.

	"Dust Rising" by Aidan Jolly in collaboration with current and former asylum seekers and their allies. Fear, terror and persecution in the aftermath of September 11th: a short multimedia exploration which asks why western governments are exploiting the attack on the World Trade Centre to demonise asylum seekers and refugees, in which political analysis collides with real-life testimony through a redefinition of surveillance, fear and portraiture through digital audio and graphic video manipulation.

	"Desti.Nation" a 2-screen portable installation by Aidan Jolly and Kooj Chuhan. A distillation of the key elements within "Terminal Frontiers" and their relationship to the imagery of popular misconceptions. Comprising two electronic screens and sound, this will tour a number of community/public venues around Greater Manchester during September/October 2002, reaching out to people away from the mainstream city centre.

	"Alem Will Stay" by Kooj Chuhan with the Lo-Stock Hi-Drama group. A turbulent and dramatic video installation produced by Kooj Chuhan and drama students at Lostock High School, based on the book "Refugee Boy" by Benjamin Zephaniah, in which a series of doubts and myths are overcome in the joint efforts to stop fellow student and refugee Alem Kelo from being deported.

	plus: "Frontier Terminals" CD-ROM a virtual and interactive tour of the series of exhibited works including a special CD-ROM version of Keith Piper''s "Stranger" plus new interactive soundtrack accompaniments to "What If I'm Not Real"; interviews with artists plus a gallery of the preparatory and in-process creativity for the various works; critical writings on the connection of art with politics; the background to and context in which the works came about; a discussion around digital contribution to the collaborative art process, and the nature of expressing personal and political journeys.

	Stills on Show An exhibition of imagery from Terminal Frontiers will be on show at The Circle Club during the same period as the exhibition at Castlefield Gallery.