Museum Of Arte Útil

Walking in the darkness

On Tuesday the 18th of February, the team formed by Laurie Jo Reynolds, Giles Clarke, Eleni Gogou and Garazi Ansa went again to the Vluchthaven to continue the workshop and to design the rest of the flags. For that day, it was planned a trip to Utrecht, to support the demonstration organized by refugees that are living in there.

Due to a change of plans, the team stayed at the Vluchthaven and they kept interviewing people and taking more photos. In afternoon they went to visit the Vluchtgarage, an old building in the South-West of Amsterdam that was squatted for the refugees when they were evicted from the Vluchthaven. They spent some hours there, and they spoke with them about their extremely bad situation. After having diner, the team and some of the refugees joined a meeting where some politicians were discussing the future of the refugees in the Vluchtgarage.  There, the team distributed a collection of some thoughts and quotes that Laurie Jo Reynolds had  previously chosen from the book Voices (Voces) written by Antonio Porchia.