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The practice of solidarity through the arts: inter-relations and shared moments of creation in Share My Table

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Sustainable Development Goals

  • SDG 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
    SDG 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

Abstract

In 2017 the Scottish Refugee Council and Tramway embarked on a collaborative participatory arts project seeking to explore the upsurge in media coverage around issues of migration. Share My Table took a multi-artform approach, with performance and visual art providing the foundation for the exploration. This article, written from the position of artist researcher, shifts the lens away from the artistic or performance outputs of this participatory project, and instead reflects and theorises the working practices which emerged throughout the Share My Table project. By drawing on bell hooks’s work on practices of freedom (1994), and James Thompson’s call for a re-focusing towards affect, beauty and care (2011, 2015), the author argues for participatory practice’s radical potential. Ultimately, the how of participatory work, the careful and ethical attention on the doing can activate solidarity in relation to the asylum regime.

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Research Output: Contribution to journal Article Peer-review

Original language

English

Pages from-to (Number of pages)

Pages 31-53

Journal (Volume, Issue Number)

Scottish Journal of Performance (Volume 6, Issue 1)

Publication milestones

  • Accepted/In press - 22/02/2019
  • Published - 14/07/2019

Publication status

Published - 14/07/2019

ISSN

2054-1953

External Publication IDs

  • handle.net: 10547/624365

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