Embassy for the Displaced

Embassy for the Displaced An embassy for displaced people. Est. Lesvos, 2015 At the same time people are swarming accross the Mediterranean, trying to make it to safety.

The first half of the decade saw warfare escalate all the way from the Maghreb, to the Middle East, into Europe, thus positioning the issue of displaced people in the centre of public discourse once again. The Greek islands neighbouring the Turkish coast aquire particularities of a war front, an extension of the warzone of sorts, through human bodies and stories that arrive on their shores. Europe

turns a blind eye and responds with an increasingly militarized management of its borders, while the division between its core and its periphery becomes all the more acute. Surveillance, prevention through buffer zones and under-equipped rescue operations are the ordre du jour, with western governments anxious to assure themselves and their subjects that they are far from its reach. It is not rare that they don't. 2 billion miles were travelled in 2015 alone. Design within -and for- this crisis, then, becomes a social necessity. Established between London, Athens and Lesvos island in December 2015, the Embassy for the Displaced is a design-based collective that operates both on the field and from afar. It serves as a design-for-survival laboratory, a visual archive of the refugees' journey and an institution on the side of the Displaced. A land for the land-less.

Dal-Baħar Madwarha - ‘The island is what the sea surrounds’is an exhibition negotiating the politics of movement in the ...
29/03/2018

Dal-Baħar Madwarha - ‘The island is what the sea surrounds’

is an exhibition negotiating the politics of movement in the mediterranean sea. Featuring is our 3D scanned video 'Where Land Meets Sea'.

Valetta, Malta, 25 March-27 May 2018

Valletta 2018’s major multi-site exhibition, “Dal-Baħar Madwarha”, opens its doors to curious visitors across the Islands starting from the 10th of Marc

'For the archipelagos ladden with palpable death.''Nyktopolitics' is a text we wrote for The Photographers' Gallery onli...
07/05/2017

'For the archipelagos ladden with palpable death.'

'Nyktopolitics' is a text we wrote for The Photographers' Gallery online platform.

When does the human need to leave the image? And what takes his/her place? How can one attempt to image a life severed by representation, and who has the ethical right to attempt such an aberrant, aniconic distortion?

WLMS will be screened and discussed this Friday, March 31st, as part of the Essay Film Festival, held at Birkbeck Instit...
27/03/2017

WLMS will be screened and discussed this Friday, March 31st, as part of the Essay Film Festival, held at Birkbeck Institute for the Moving Image.

Photo © 2016 Stefanos Levidis Friday 31 March 2017 Birkbeck Cinema, 43 Gordon Square, London, WC1H 0PD 11:00–4:00 | [Free event: Book here] This special collaboration with the Bartlett School of Architecture is in two parts. An introductory talk by Penelope Haralambidou (Bartlett

This Sunday, 26 Feb14:00 - 15:00, De Brakke Grond.Where Land Meets Sea, 17' 'Over the past year the island’s rugged, mou...
24/02/2017

This Sunday, 26 Feb14:00 - 15:00, De Brakke Grond.

Where Land Meets Sea, 17'

'Over the past year the island’s rugged, mountainous landscape has become host to numerous people fleeing conflict. It is now dotted with piles of debris, boats, lifejackets, discarded passports, aggregations that challenge the rocks’ legitimacy over the land and ‘narrate’ a story of violent dislocations.'

Where Land Meets Sea, EFTD, 17’, UK, GR, 2017, lidar film The Sea is History, Louis Henderson, 28', UK, FR, 2016, experimental essay

A reworked and extended version of 'Where Land Meets Sea' will be screened at this year's Sonic Acts festival's Film pro...
12/02/2017

A reworked and extended version of 'Where Land Meets Sea' will be screened at this year's Sonic Acts festival's Film programme.

Sun 26 Feb14:00 - 15:00, De Brakke Grond
Where Land Meets Sea, EFTD, 17’ lidar film, UK, GR, 2017

http://sonicacts.com/2017/films/film-programme-8

Last September EFTD was invited to participate at the Progress Bar's Festival of Radical Imagination.'We are attempting ...
10/02/2017

Last September EFTD was invited to participate at the Progress Bar's Festival of Radical Imagination.

'We are attempting to survive our time, so that we may live into yours'

'Displaced Witness' is a collaborative VR installation by Scanlab Projects and EFTD that navigates the radical potential...
15/01/2017

'Displaced Witness' is a collaborative VR installation by Scanlab Projects and EFTD that navigates the radical potential of digital media towards an archaeology of present displacement.

The piece will be exhibited among great company, as part of the 'Disappearance at Sea- Mare Nostrum' exhibition, at the Baltic, Newcastle Upon Tyne, that runs from January 27th until May 14th, 2017.

http://balticmill.com/whats-on/exhibitions/disappearance-at-sea-mare-nostrum

EFTD is in Berlin this week, with new works for PANNov 25th.
20/11/2016

EFTD is in Berlin this week, with new works for PAN

Nov 25th.

Inner Space: SiberiaA project by Helm, Moa Pillar, and Embassy for the Displaced, for Unsound Festival and PAN.Performin...
20/10/2016

Inner Space: Siberia

A project by Helm, Moa Pillar, and Embassy for the Displaced, for Unsound Festival and PAN.

Performing Saturday, October 22nd at Unsound Krakow 2016.
http://www.unsound.pl/dislocation/events/parallax

“Inner Space: Siberia” sees PAN-affiliated artist Helm perform alongside Embassy for the Displaced and Russian musician Moa Pillar. Together they will…

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