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Added by Ellen Weitkamp
Updated 7 months ago

Korean artist Do Ho Suh references the different places he has lived and worked with this colourful installation at London's Victoria Miro Gallery, which explores ideas about identity and migration. The Passage/s exhibition gives physical form to Suh's idea of life as a journey - his installation is designed as a sequence of passageways that each represent a different place he has occupied.

Do Ho Suh creates colourful structures...

Added by Ellen Weitkamp
Updated 8 months ago

The ongoing crises in the Middle East have uprooted millions of people, yet new technology allows them to keep connected to their home communities and loved ones in unprecedented ways. The smartphone has become the essential travel companion of the 21st century refugee.

Traces of Exile - Tomas van Houtryve...

Added by Ellen Weitkamp
Updated 10 months ago

Before the summer of 2015, the island of Lesvos was a quiet place, known by classicists for the poetry of Sappho, who lived there in the sixth century B.C.; by tourists for its beaches and rolling pine forests; and by Greeks for its salted sardines.

Following Europe's Migrant Trail,...

Connected by Ellen Weitkamp
10 months ago

The digital revolution arrives in remote Indian villages such as Akbarpur by communication methods old and new: a WhatsApp message buzzes through to the village chief; he notifies his fellows via megaphone. The world's biggest biometric ID programme is coming to town.

India goes from village to village to...

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a year ago

Dhaanto is a style of traditional Somali music and folk dance. It is specific to certain Somali-speaking areas in the Horn region. The dance-song was revived during the Dervish period in the early 20th century, when it was used to raise the 'spirts' of soldiers and was often sung on horseback.

Dhaanto - Wikipedia

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Updated a year ago

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