BRIDGET FISKE

‘YES Move. NO Move, (Moved?)’ is about what moves us towards and away from each other. The work explores the extent of empathy; questioning what it is that moves us to action, to embrace the other as ourselves, and asks what are the consequences when we don't. ‘YES Move. NO Move. (Moved?)’ is a human response to the subject of difference (ethnicity vs citizenships vs identity), borders (physical, territorial, cultural, metaphysical, psychological, and emotional), rights to movement (political, economic, social, cultural), and belonging. 

 

The work's research occurred via residencies with B51 Cultural Society in Ljubljana, Slovenia, Tanec Praha in Prague, Czech Republic, and Radu Stanca National Theatre in Sibiu, Romania across November and December 2015.

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During these residencies, the creative team engaged in a series of conversations and creative workshops with local community. The community informed, directed, and responded as active participants in the creation of this work. 

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During the project the creative team:

 

• collaborated and performed with, border volunteers, activists, current asylum seekers, dancers from the Roma community, migrants, emigrant workers, and youth navigating current social tensions.

• delivered workshops in asylum seeker detention centres in Slovenia and Czech Republic and with Roma youth in Czech Republic, and

• meet and interviewed people 'erased' during Slovenia's independance, Roma and Migrant support organisations and invisible worker advocates.

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The aim of this process was to reveal the lived experience within these complex contemporary questions around borders, rights to movement; and the politics of scarcity, crisis & difference.​