Representation is crucial to our identity and our place in society in the way that it informs our being in the world and how we participate in the community. This project is developing in collaboration with Spirasi, a humanitarian, intercultural, non-governmental organisation that works with asylum seekers, refugees and other disadvantaged migrant groups. These are people unrepresented on a legislative, political or cultural level here in Ireland, who can engage with the question of representation in a rigorous and meaningful way. Participants will collaborate in the creation of the work through dialogue, reflection and exchange, revealing both differing and shared realities in a non-didactic, implicit manner, and developing new modes or forms to ensure that these realities be represented. The collective pursuit of creating such forms opens up dialogue, extending the question of representation beyond those directly involved in the project.

This project will unfold over the course of the spring to summer seasons at VISUAL. It will manifest in a number of ways including text based pieces sited in various locations at the galleries, VISUAL and a sound  piece in Carlow town.