"...brilliantly executed...downright compelling...art with the potential to engage us on deeper levels..." - City Life

A series of five artists’ works that ask oblique questions about how the human experience of asylum and migration connects to the politics of local and global conflicts. Using video, installation and digital techniques, this exhibition features devices from Tang Dynasty poetry to interactive software programming and sets works from professional artists alongside those produced with local people.

Delete Where Appropriate : Local/Stranger
By Keith Piper (world premiere). This new interactive work critically examines what defines a ‘stranger’ as opposed to a ‘local’. The viewer is invited to participate in various scenarios that challenge their own identity, while a separate projection integrates this data into the broader context of migration and settlement.

What If I’m Not Real
Directed by Kooj Chuhan in collaboration with Tang Lin, Aidan Jolly, Jilah Bakshayesh, Hafiza Mohamed and Miselo Kunda-Anaku
A multi-screen installation involving a circular triptych of video projections accompanied by a series of changing soundtracks. Through following the conflict between three characters on rafts at sea and its bloody conclusion, issues of asylum are visually and poetically reconstructed within the new world order.

Dust Rising
By Aidan Jolly, in collaboration with people denied asylum and their allies
This video work examines fear, terror and persecution in the aftermath of September 11th. It questions why Western governments are exploiting the attack on the World Trade Centre to demonise asylum seekers and refugees.

Alem Will Stay
By Kooj Chuhan with students from Lostock High School, Greater Manchester. Based on the book Refugee Boy by Benjamin Zephaniah, the resulting video work explores the reactions of students to discovering that one of their own classmates is to be deported.

Desti.Nation
By Virtual Migrants. Presented as a two-screen installation, this piece is a distillation of key elements within Terminal Frontiers probing misconceptions and presenting facts about asylum.

A minigraph with a commissioned essay by Eddie Chambers was available from the gallery


A selection of images from the CD-ROM and video installation
together with documentation of the exhibition in situ.