The story of migration
Phoenix Arts Space, Brighton
★★★★
The migration and refugee crisis will not end. Western-backed imperial wars, climate change, internal religion, ethnic and territorial struggles are furious. A hopeless man will try to choose a processing centre that we will build, no matter how many fascist politicians we choose.
The only answer is empathy, solidarity and authentic internationalism. And to build a coalition for this, we need to hear from people continuing to traverse smuggling routes through remote areas, across dangerous oceans.
Occasionally, photojournalism is cut out occasionally, similar to the image of two-year-old Alan Kurdi on a Mediterranean beach in Bodrum. But with traditional press being dominated by billionaires, a more innovative approach is needed.
Art is one answer. The Phoenix Arts Space in Brighton is currently hosting the Stories of Migration. It is an exhibition celebrating 12 years of storytelling by SOAS-based nonprofit PositiveNegatives, which describes it as a “global visual research organization.” We bring together animated, comics, graphic novels, and podcasts about imposing social, environmental and humanitarian issues. This type of work can have a major impact on the fragmented media landscape. One animation on the African drug trade, created in collaboration with the BBC, was monitored by 90 million people in one week by Daniel Rock and Dr. Benjamin Workdicks. As today, the exhibition is almost a gateway to a series of starks, influences and interconnected worlds through a series of QR codes. Takes manga inspired by the manga drawn by Asian Alphasi. Commissioned by Care International UK, this is one of the two first-person first-person difficulties facing Syrian refugees. When Isis came to Mosul in the wake of our devastating Iraq war, Nadia had no choice but to escape. Beyond three pages, we learn and feel fear that is far less immediate in other art forms. In the West, the known conflicts of Wrestle are also covered. The story of the horrifying 2009 civil war in Sri Lanka, where tens of thousands of Tamil citizens were brutally killed, is buried by so many powerful profits of strategic and business interests within the country. We see our children losing their legs to landmines and the ordinary people trying their best for their families are forced to make the horrifying decision not to see their neighbors or homeland again. It also focuses on ordinary people caught up in crossfire. Again, with space limited, the Phoenix Arts Space presents a compelling panel of young women forced into leadership positions at one of these camps, desperately trying to lock young men and boys into structure and meaning online. Again, it's a much more true and nasty portrayal of Iraq than you're seeing anymore than anywhere else. “A diverse mix of refugees and returnees. They come from a variety of ethnicities and faiths from Syrians, Yazidi, Kurdish, Sunni and Christians.” Again, the graphic novel allows for the immediacy of these stories, which are difficult to portray in other media. As one 19-year-old woman says, someone who was in camp at the age of 11: “The house I had there (Syria), ISIS blows it away. A trip to Brighton for this important exhibition is worth a walk to the reading room of one church on Florence Road. You can enjoy the panel of the Myfanwy Tristram's protest committee. Burned by the British government's crackdown on protests, Devonian native Tristram drew another protest placard in October 2021. Inspired, and the broad multicultural spread of those who stand up to the war, racist imperialism. It will take place at the Phoenix Arts Space in Brighton until May 28th. For more information, please visit phoenixartspace.org
Myfanwy Tristram's protest cartoon will be held in one church reading room on Florence Road, Brighton until May 28th. For more information and to purchase the book, please visit myfanwytristram.com.
