Calle Caballeros 18-2
46001 Valencia
Spain
- Arts
- Environment/Sustainable development
- Human rights
- International/Cultural relations
- Media
- Research
- Youth and education
The intention of our group is to promote awareness to under reported segments of society and the difficulties they are experiencing. Using art to transend the 'media clip' or 'sound bite' mentality of todays busy world creates space for reflection and interaction from which empathy can begin to grow. We pride ourselves in being submersed in whatever it is we are researching often spending many months living among those we are studing.
Our mission is best stated by Bill Moyers when he said "Our very lives depend on the ethics of strangers, and most of us are always strangers to other people."
The Book of Journeys is an ongoing series of travel narratives, short stories and images detailing our installation work. The work is the blanket under which most of Arthrpology's pieces are created. Our Senegal project was begun in Dakar and we folloed migrants to North Africa then the Spanish enclaves and finally to Europe, it took one year.
The last two years have been devoted to a series of both non fiction and fictional pieces on Syria and the civil war there. Some of these works include a feature film script, a novel and an installation.
We are also beginning to look towards central Africa for our next work on WATER.
Since our practice is one of collaboration we are always sharing ideas and knowledge with artists we are in contact with. Our current project has the potential to aid newly arriving artists from the Middle East by highlighting their experiences and giving them exposure they would not find in their countries of origin. If we are to make our art our voice the louder that voice can project the greater its affect on our societies.
As our premise is always to break down walls we constantly are seeking new intellectual dialogs to engage ourselves in, being a member of ALF we believe would only aid us in making that happen for both creatives and 'others' in our society.