Zachariadi and Lynes, ‘Either You Get it Or You Don’t’, 2020
- Category: Literature
- Source: NGOs, Academic
- Subject: Sexual Orientation/Sexuality, Gender Identity, Intersex, Refugee/Asylum, LGBT+
- Place: Europe, Other
- Year: 2020
- File: 10.14361_9783839448274-020
- URL: https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839448274-020
Sophia Zachariadi and Krista Lynes, ‘Either You Get it Or You Don’t: A Conversation on LGBTQIA+ Refugees’s #Rockumenta Action’, in Krista Lynes, Tyler Morgenstern and Ian Alan Paul, Moving Images: Mediating Migration as Crisis, transcript-Verlag, 2020, pp. 263-271
Abstract
In June 2017, the refugee rights group LGBTQIA+ Refugees Welcome abducted a participatory artwork from the global contemporary art exhibition Documenta 14, held in Athens to highlight the city’s centrality to European imaginaries of crisis. They then released a ransom note and accompanying video via social media, in which they addressed the artist, Roger Bernat, condemning the fetishization of refugees by Documenta, and highlighting the precarious conditions queer migrants face on a daily basis. This conversation between Sophia Zachariadi (LGBTQIA+ Refugees Welcome) and Krista Lynes seeks to trace the possibilities and predicaments of the art action, and its legacy for the group, for public art practice, and for thinking refugee rights in Athens and elsewhere.