Bordered Lives: Immigration Detention Archive (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9783956793714)

The experience of detention from the perspective of the immigrant, drawing on the fields of art, design, and criminology.

Drawing on original documents, photographs, and detainee artwork, Bordered Lives offers a unique insight into the experience of immigration detention in the United Kingdom. With interdisciplinary backgrounds in art, design, and criminology, the authors present views of everyday life under this form of border control. In offering a glimpse within these hidden sites, they explore fundamental questions about coercion, censorship, and control, as well as belonging and resistance.

This book introduces the Immigration Detention Archive and reflects on the conditions under which art is supposed to be produced (and is undermined) in institutional spaces. Mixing shadow puppetry, photographic slides, video, architectural models, and spoken word, Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll's performance Men in Waiting presents the effects of indeterminate detention, bureaucratic indifference, and banality on the subjectivity of the incarcerated.

Author: Mary Bosworth,Khadija Von Zinnenburg Carroll,Christoph Balzar
ISBN-10: 3956793714
ISBN-13: 9783956793714
Publisher: Sternberg Press
Language: English
Published: 02/02/2021
Pages: 144
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.33lbs
Size: 12.00h x 8.50w x 0.90d