Upcoming: Exhibition about deportation politics opens Sept. 9
On September 9, CAMP invites the public to the opening of its new exhibition Deportation Regime: Artistic responses to state practices and lived experience of forced removal.
Deportation is the forced removal of ‘unwanted foreigners’ from the territory of a state. Every year, hundreds of thousands of rejected asylum seekers, and irregular and undocumented migrants are removed by force from the country they migrated to, and returned to their country of origin against their will. The public is told very little about how deportations are actually carried out, what fate awaits deportees after their forced return, and what it is like to live with the immanent threat of deportation. CAMP has invited the artists Ghazel (Iran/France) and Daniela Ortiz (Peru/Spain), and the artist run media lab Studio Revolt (Cambodia, USA, Japan) to engage these questions in the center’s new exhibition Deportation Regime. They belong to a growing number of artists, whose artistic examinations of what it means to be an (im)migrant or exiled other, have led them to make work about deportation practices, experiences, and resistance. Deportation Regime presents three commissioned installations and live performances on the opening night that help us understand the logic behind deportation.
Concurrently with the Deportation Regime opening, the National Gallery of Denmark, SMK, opens its new exhibition Migration Politics, which re-establishes three previous CAMP exhibitions in the museum. All are welcome to join both opening events from 3:30–11 pm! Opening program 3:30–4: Free shuttle bus from CAMP/Trampoline House to SMK: National Gallery of Denmark 4–5:30: Opening of Migration Politics at SMK: National Gallery of Denmark. Welcome speeches and exhibition viewing 5:30–6: Free shuttle bus from SMK: National Gallery of Denmark to CAMP/Trampoline House 6–6:30: Opening of Deportation Regime in CAMP. Welcome speeches and drinks 6:30–7:30: Exhibition viewing and soup kitchen 7:30–8: Jus Sanguinis, a performance by Daniela Ortiz (artist, Peru/Spain) questioning the prevalent legal principle ‘right of blood’ by which citizenship is determined by bloodline as opposed to place of birth 8:30–11: Dance party w/ Panteras DJ Crew (transnational)
Deportation Regime runs from September 9 – December 16, 2016, and is accompanied by a free online exhibition catalog (available Sept. 6) with essays by Associate Professor Julia Suárez-Krabbe and anthropologist Shahram Khosravi. The exhibition also presents the event “Deportspora: When deportation becomes a way of life” on October 29 from 2–5 pm. The event unpacks key aspects of the concept 'deportspora,' featuring: – a talk by anthropologist Shahram Khosravi about post-deportation outcomes for deported Afghan asylum seekers from Sweden – a performance by Ghazel inspired by undocumented migrants ‘in transit’ in Paris – an artist presentation by Daniela Ortiz discussing the migration control systems Jus Soli (birthplace citizenship) and Jus Sanguinis (bloodline citizenship) – the spoken word performance Verses in Exile by Kosal Khiev (poet, tattoo artist, artist-in-residence with Studio Revolt, USA/Cambodia) about prison incarceration and forced deportation. A warm welcome!