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Thanks to Ute Lehrer that pointed out that this list does not accept attachments! I copy here in this email all the list of references I received. *Suggestions on art and the loss of home, from the Critical Geography mailing list:* - *Julia Heslop* from Newcastle, is a member of a group of artists/arts producers looking at housing crisis through a creative lens. They recently spoke at this event: http://digitalstorymaking.co.uk/registration-open-art-and-housing-struggles-between-art-and-political-organising-london-31-may-to-1-jun-2018/ <[log in to unmask]> - *Matt Baillie Smith* from Northumbria just began a research on “Young Palestinians' Responses to House Demolitions: Youth Agency for Sustainable Development?”, focusing on how young people mobilize culture, heritage and memory in response to the experience and the threat of demolitions in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. <[log in to unmask]> - *Luke Dickens* from Kings's College, is currently working with a group of undergraduates on a project exploring the role public art might play in addressing homelessness in San Francisco <[log in to unmask]> - *Robin Kearns* from Auckland suggests to look at Porteous' idea of *topocide *and how the town of his childhood was 'planned to death'. < [log in to unmask]> Here is the link to the book: https://books.google.co.nz/books/about/Planned_to_death.html?id=nnEKAQAAMAAJ&redir_esc=y - *Thomas Smith* from Saint Andrew's (UK) suggested an essay published by Sarah Thomas in one of the most recent Dark Mountain anthologies ( https://dark-mountain.net/product/issue-13/): an artistic take on the burning down of a home in the UK. <[log in to unmask]> - *Zoë O'Reilly* cites these examples from Ireland: a photographic project on experiences of asylum seekers living in 'direct provision' system in Ireland, https://www.dropbox.com/s/2tva7mpbct1nrc5/new%20bridges.%20photobook.pdf?dl=0 <https://www.dropbox.com/s/2tva7mpbct1nrc5/new%20bridges.%20photobook.pdf?dl=0>, and the photographic archive on Irish 'direct provision' by artist and scholar Vukasin Nedeljkovic (http://www.asylumarchive.com/). < [log in to unmask]> - *Jessie Lenor Speer* from London is embarking on a museum exhibit on the theme of "losing home". She says there are also a number of poetry and art collections, as well as theatre productions like *Cardboard Citizens* in London that speak to homeless people's loss of home. She sent me two documents: a bibliography of the life narratives she is working on, and her dissertation chapter on the US housing act and urban homelessness. One of the articles she is working on is about how people displaced in the US often frame themselves as non-citizens who are excluded from the "American dream." <[log in to unmask]> - *Bethan Harries*, from Manchester, sent me an artpiece with the title “They called it regeneration” he produced with a graphic artist, to reflect the effect of demolition and rehousing on a neighbourhood community with a large established ethnic minority population. It forms part of a series of artworks generated from research did in Cardiff, Manchester and Glasgow. <[log in to unmask]> - *Ashley Bachelder *is working with a tenant union that is in the beginning stages of conceptualizing some public art projects about the housing crisis and what "home" means. <[log in to unmask]> - *Jennifer Barella *from Neuchatel suggests to look at the work of Eyal Weizman and Forensic Architecture, especially Weizman's work on “bulldozer politics” in Gaza, though it might not deal directly with the elaboration of trauma. <[log in to unmask]> - *Andrew Tucker* from Louisville is working with his colleagues to reproduce a play called Returning to Haifa for our local immigrant populations and those displaced by HOPE VI projects in Louisville Kentucky. He adds: “We're hoping that this production will create spaces of convergence between the two groups to discuss their experiences of displacement/dispossession and to build bridges towards organizing against future displacements”. <[log in to unmask]> - *Emma Ormerod* from Durham explains a project led by Professor Rachel Pain (now at Newcastle University) that looked at the mass-auction of Housing Association homes in an ex-mining village in North East England, which fractured the community. The project worked with a photographer and song writers. https://www.dur.ac.uk/socialjustice/researchprojects/socialhousing/, https://ribbonroad.bandcamp.com/album/our-streets-are-numbered. < [log in to unmask]> - *Laura Denning* suggested to post the same question on the ART-ALL jiscmail group (which for the moment I didn't do!) < [log in to unmask]> - *Ayham Dalal* from Berlin writes they have established an art-research initiative among displaced Syrians https://www.facebook.com/MPHDT/. They will launch a more comprehensive website in two weeks to cover up issues that are not on the facebook page. Another project he suggests is *home-sick *by Hrair Sarkissian, an Armenian Syrian artist based in London. < [log in to unmask]> - *Daniel Fitzpatrick* from London suggests to check the exhibition *A rock and a hard place *on the housing crisis and privatization of land at V3 Gallery (https://www.v3.london/past), as well as the ongoing exhibition *Living with Buildings *at the Wellcome collection ( https://wellcomecollection.org/exhibitions/Wk4sPSQAACcANwrX) and another one at the Geffrye Museum, where maybe there are items related to home and loss. A big installation work on memory and loss of habitation in Liverpool was done by Assemble ( http://www.contemporaryartsociety.org/news/recent-acquisitions/products-assembles-turner-prize-winning-project-acquired-middlesbrough-institute-modern-art/). He also suggests Jane Rendell's recent book on architecture and psychoanalysis. <[log in to unmask]> - *Ersilia Verlinghieri* from Oxford suggests to look at her hometown L'Aquila, where there have been several art initiatives and projects after the 2009 earthquake, broadly aimed at a collective elaboration of the various traumas caused by the earthquake and the way it has been managed. One of several projects is at http://www.reacto.it/about/# <http://www.reacto.it/about/#>. <[log in to unmask]> - *Paulina McKenzie Aucoin* sent references about evictions in her city, Ottawa, ( https://www.google.ca/amp/s/daily.bandcamp.com/2018/09/26/morris-ogbowu-this-that-mo-interview/amp/, https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/heron-gate-residents-fight-eviction-1.4728259), and recommended George F. Walker’s *Moss Park,* a theatrical exploration of poverty in a Toronto neighbourhood, as seen through the eyes of its protagonists, separated parents Tina and Bobby. She also sent the link to the Habitat Coalition book *Evictions and the Right to Housing, Experiences from Canada, Chile, Dominican Republic, South Africa and South Corea** (available at https://prd-idrc.azureedge.net/sites/default/files/openebooks/279-1/ <https://prd-idrc.azureedge.net/sites/default/files/openebooks/279-1/>) <[log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>> * - *Daniel André Fernandes Paiva** from Lisboa suggests to check Lefthandrotation's **Museo de los desplazados** project, at * http://www.lefthandrotation.com/museodesplazados/, http://www.lefthandrotation.com/trojanhorse/index.htm. < [log in to unmask]> - Other people who displayed interest on the issue are *Amanda Crawley Jackson *who works in French philosophy and is currently writing a monograph called *Post-Traumatic Landscapes* <[log in to unmask]>, and *Iliana Ortega-Alcazar* <[log in to unmask]>. *Thanks to all of you! * On Fri, Oct 12, 2018 at 5:03 PM Stefano Portelli < [log in to unmask]> wrote: > Hi to all! > > I finally manage to list in one file all the reference you sent me, in > response to my question on art and the loss of home. It is a huge amount of > material, which seems all incredibly interesting! I hope that among all of > us we'll manage to check it all, maybe to extend the collection to more > places and stories. I apologize for the time it took me to focus on this. > > While reviewing all your info, I noticed I didn't say anything about my > own work... my topic is the effects of relocations, especially in urban > peripheries, I did a long-term ethnographic research and action in a > Barcelona neighborhood called Bon Pastor, demolished starting 2007, then I > worked on a neighborhood in Rome, Italy, created after a huge displacement > of slum dwellers in the 70s, and now I am working on evictions in > Casablanca, where there is also huge displacement going on. Check this > video from two weeks ago, for example: > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAr0VqwSBlM&feature=youtu.be > > I really thank you for all the information and ideas you put in! Who knows > if we couldn't do something with all of this. > > Salut, > Stefano > > > -- > Stefano Portelli, anthropologist > Postdoctoral Fellow at Leicester University, Department of Geography > Affiliate to Harvard University, Department of Anthropology > http://napolimonitor.it/la-citta-orizzontale/ > http://periferiesurbanes.org > -- Stefano Portelli, anthropologist Postdoctoral Fellow at Leicester University, Department of Geography Affiliate to Harvard University, Department of Anthropology http://napolimonitor.it/la-citta-orizzontale/ http://periferiesurbanes.org ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the CRIT-GEOG-FORUM list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=CRIT-GEOG-FORUM&A=1