Mapping_Immigrant Stories
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posted on 2025-08-27, 05:42 authored by Lozanovska Mirjana, Mirjana LozanovskaMirjana LozanovskaMapping_Immigrant Stories
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Palazzo Mora, VeniceLanguage
English, Macedonian, TurkishNotes
REWIND is an installation that incorporates elements of - Cartography (with participant hand drawings), modelling of 'routes' (2.5 dimensions), audio, and booklets.Extent
3 X pdf files of concept and development 5 colour photographs of final exhibition/installation 1 pdf Catalogue 2 URL websitesEditor/Contributor(s)
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2025-05-10End date
2025-11-23Research statement
Background Immigration centres and industries that employed refugee and immigrant labour in the post war period can be thought of as nodes in an interdependent spatial and transnational labour network. The physical sites and projects featured in this exhibition convey this network, its nodal points and inter-cultural social interactions through a study of Migrant Camps, Snowy hydro-electric power, Woomera (defence) and raw- material production Port Kembla Steelworks, trans-Asian suburbanisation in Melbourne. ARC DPDP190101531 Architecture and Industry: Immigrants' contribution to nation-building, 1945-1979. https://my.matterport.com/show/?m=vokEs66qQDE https://architec Contribution REWIND immigrant stories (Dignity of Labour Phase 2) explores migration return to places of origin, departure, emigration. It rewinds the chronology of history and the global economies of immigrant labour. In 1947 Australia recruited thousands of workers to work at the BHP Steelworks in Port Kembla (located on the scenic Illawarra eastern coastline of Australia, 80 kilometers south of Sydney. There are three aspects to the installation Return-Counter Cartography (large scale map, hand-sketching; Routes - individual migration inventories - an antithesis to metanarrative of ‘mass migration’; Roots - audio recordings in non-English languages. Significance This work develops a counter position to exhibits on migration: i) individuality to counter to the 'mass' statistics as in the exhibition - EXIT (Diller and Scofidio); and mobility to counter emphasis on stagnancy and nostalgia (non-arrival) - as in suitcase exhibitions . Its method explores rewinding the chronology of migration - starting from destination, backwards. It is shown at the European Cultural Centre with the Venice Architecture Biennale - an international venue; and is included in the ECC catalogue.Event
TIME SPACE EXISTENCE 2025, European Cultural Centre and Venice Architecture BiennalePublisher
European Cultural CentrePlace of publication
Palazzo Mora, ECC, VeniceSeries
TIME SPACE EXISTENCE > Dignity of Labour : phase 2Usage metrics
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