Event overview
Migrating Dreams and Nightmares: Materials and Movement takes its conceptual and methodological inspiration from John Berger and Jean Mohr's classic A Seventh Man (1975).
In this book, Berger and Mohr cite a migrant worker: 'A friend came to see me in a dream. From far away. And I asked him in the dream: "Did you come by photograph or train?"' In these simple sentences, Berger and Mohr identify a complex web of conscious and nonconscious, bodily, visceral, emotional and affective expressions of migration.
EXHIBITION
Words and images from A Seventh Man, which was translated into different languages, have been re-enacted in the Kingsway Corridor by the artist Antoinette Brown, in collaboration with Nirmal Puwar. Chalk, blackboards and wire jolt the words out of the book and onto the walls of the academy. Contemporary graffiti from Larache’s harbour sits amongst selections from the book. In addition, Sadek Rahim’s sponge boats from his project No Crash! Boom! Bang!, originally installed in the Bibliothèque Nationale d'Alger, hang in the arches of the passageway.
In a linked-in off-site exhibition in the Stuart Hall Library Alia Syed and Nadia Perrotta have responded to Berger and Mohr’s book and Syed’s longstanding interest in tunnels to examine the hopes and fears driving the movements of current migrants and refugees.
UPCOMING EVENTS
Material Dreams and Nightmares + Drinks
25 February 2016, 4.00pm-7.00pm, RHB Small Cinema, Goldsmiths.
Charles Hirschkind and Iian Chambers
Translating Dreams and Nightmares + Drinks
17 March 2016, 4.00-7.00pm, RHB Small Cinema, Goldsmiths.
Rey Chow, Sukhdev Sandhu, Paul Bowman, Alia Syed and Antoinette Brown
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
With grateful thanks to the people without whom this project would not have materialised. To the artists: Antoinette Brown, Sadek Rahim, Alia Syed. To those who helped with the translations: Imran Ayata and Manuela Bojadzijev, Amarjit Chandan, Gilles Fage (Fage éditions and Nouvelles éditions Scala), Duran Kim (Duran Kim agency) and Teresa Pintó (Agencia Literaria). Thanks also to Nick Brown (Stuart Hall Library), to Di Robson and Gareth Evans (Artevents) for their loan of Mohr's photographs, and to Jean Mohr and John Berger for granting us the liberty to play with the text and images. And finally, the money. Thanks to the Sociology Department and the Research Office at Goldsmiths and to the Sociological Review for their generous support for this project.
Dates & times
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| 2 Feb 2016 | 9:00am - 7:00pm | |
| 3 Feb 2016 | 9:00am - 7:00pm | |
| 4 Feb 2016 | 9:00am - 7:00pm | |
| 5 Feb 2016 | 9:00am - 7:00pm | |
| 6 Feb 2016 | 9:00am - 7:00pm | |
| 7 Feb 2016 | 9:00am - 7:00pm | |
| 8 Feb 2016 | 9:00am - 7:00pm | |
| 9 Feb 2016 | 9:00am - 7:00pm | |
| 10 Feb 2016 | 9:00am - 7:00pm | |
| 11 Feb 2016 | 9:00am - 7:00pm | |
| 12 Feb 2016 | 9:00am - 7:00pm | |
| 13 Feb 2016 | 9:00am - 7:00pm | |
| 14 Feb 2016 | 9:00am - 7:00pm | |
| 15 Feb 2016 | 9:00am - 7:00pm | |
| 16 Feb 2016 | 9:00am - 7:00pm | |
| 17 Feb 2016 | 9:00am - 7:00pm | |
| 18 Feb 2016 | 9:00am - 7:00pm | |
| 19 Feb 2016 | 9:00am - 7:00pm | |
| 20 Feb 2016 | 9:00am - 7:00pm | |
| 21 Feb 2016 | 9:00am - 7:00pm | |
| 22 Feb 2016 | 9:00am - 7:00pm | |
| 23 Feb 2016 | 9:00am - 7:00pm | |
| 24 Feb 2016 | 9:00am - 7:00pm | |
| 25 Feb 2016 | 9:00am - 7:00pm | |
| 26 Feb 2016 | 9:00am - 7:00pm | |
| 27 Feb 2016 | 9:00am - 7:00pm | |
| 28 Feb 2016 | 9:00am - 7:00pm | |
| 29 Feb 2016 | 9:00am - 7:00pm | |
| 1 Mar 2016 | 9:00am - 7:00pm | |
| 2 Mar 2016 | 9:00am - 7:00pm | |
| 3 Mar 2016 | 9:00am - 7:00pm |
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