As part of Re-framing Migrants in the European Media Programme, Beyond the Now ran a series of Collaborative Incubators hosting conversations with investigative journalists, socially engaged artist and digital activists.
Incubator 2 included journalist and filmmaker, Ashish Ghadiali, researcher and writer, Kim Charnley, and curator and researcher, Dominik Czechowski.
We are currently in the process of editing the conversations for a larger publication – here are some of the questions posed to the three practitioners.
Ashish Ghadiali: Reparative Stories
- How do you navigate the spaces between fiction and non-fiction in your practice (whether art production, writing or curatorial) and by association the concept and notion of ‘truth’ and process of ‘verification’?
- As an artist and activist, what role does history, displacement and ‘reparative justice’ play in your writing and storytelling?
- How does the intersection of racial and environmental justice inform and shape how you tell the story of a space or place (or the concept of the planetary)?
Kim Charnley: Boundaries of Fiction/Non-Fiction
- How do you navigate the spaces between fiction and non-fiction in your practice (whether art production, writing or curatorial) and by association the concept and notion of ‘truth’ and process of ‘verification’?
- What do you perceive to be the ‘ethical expectations’ surrounding notions of ‘truth’ and the phenomenon of displacement in relation to socially engaged art?
- How do the institutions that govern the relationship between art and the truth differ from those that govern investigative journalism? How, for example, is fiction licensed as a creative strategy in the space of socially engaged art?
Dominik Czechowski: Curation and Contested Spaces/Places
- How do you navigate the spaces between fiction and non-fiction in your practice (whether art production, writing or curatorial) and by association the concept and notion of ‘truth’ and process of ‘verification’?
- What role might the concept and logic of a public sphere play in curating stories of migration and displacement?
- What are the challenges (opportunities) of curating in contested spaces – spaces and places shaped by (at times hidden) colonial histories and everyday experiences of migration and displacement?
Keywords: migration; decolonising; displacement; place; memory; trauma; systemic; reparation; invisibility; investigative; digital; identities; democracy; public; truth-telling; amplification; history; archives; reparative; ethics; curation; storytelling.
Re-framing Migrants in the European Media – comprises a cluster of media practitioners, activists, digital researchers and foundations: including, Here to Support (Amsterdam); Zemos98 (Madrid); Gazeta Wyborcza (Warsaw); Eticas (Barcelona); European Cultural Foundation (Amsterdam) and Beyond the Now (Berlin, London, Brussels/Beirut, Dublin).
Supported by the European Cultural Foundation and the European Union
