Asylum Archive originally started as a coping mechanism while I was in the process of seeking refuge in Ireland.
Asylum Archive is an interdisciplinary platform that visualise, historicise, memorialise and archive Direct Provision, a system of localities and sites where asylum seekers are being held, while in the process of seeking international protection.
Asylum Archive is not a singular art project that stands outside of society engaged in internal conversation; it is a political platform open for dialogue and discussion inclusive to individuals who have experienced a sense of sociological/geographical displacement, memory loss, trauma and violence. It is an act of solidarity to bring a different perspective on the life of people who came to Ireland to seek protection.
Asylum Archive is an artefact of Direct Provision as the continuation of the history of Carceral Institutions in Ireland where poor, marginalised and undesired have been incarcerated in the institutions that include Magdalene Laundries, Borstals, Mother and Baby Homes, Industrial Schools.
Asylum Archive is an interdisciplinary platform that visualise, historicise, memorialise and archive Direct Provision, a system of localities and sites where asylum seekers are being held, while in the process of seeking international protection.
Asylum Archive is not a singular art project that stands outside of society engaged in internal conversation; it is a political platform open for dialogue and discussion inclusive to individuals who have experienced a sense of sociological/geographical displacement, memory loss, trauma and violence. It is an act of solidarity to bring a different perspective on the life of people who came to Ireland to seek protection.
Asylum Archive is an artefact of Direct Provision as the continuation of the history of Carceral Institutions in Ireland where poor, marginalised and undesired have been incarcerated in the institutions that include Magdalene Laundries, Borstals, Mother and Baby Homes, Industrial Schools.
