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One way to acknowledge migration
Reading Geert Vermeire‘s latest newsletter, I was struck with how important walking art and walking artists have been in acknowledging those unfortunate people who have had to leave their homes, often migrating over vast distances, or switching to cultures unlike their own, learning new languages and how to get about day to day among people,
• Migration is a collaboration between Janine Antoni and Paul Ramirez Jonas. It is a two-channel video installation presented on two monitors placed side by side, running a continuous 58-minute, 3-second loop.
Playing the childhood game of Follow the Leader on a beach, the artists videotaped each other from behind as the follower records the leader. The videos simultaneously play out on two monitors turned on their side. The monitors’ proximity fuses the two perspectives into one walk. As the pursuer’s foot alters or erases the pursued’s footprint, it appears to step into the next monitor.
Having traveled far from their home countries, the artists depict their movements as a series of steps where, at different times, one partner leads and the other follows. The actions within Migration speak to the dynamic and continuous negotiations that happen within a relationship.
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Based on information provided by the Janine Antoni website.
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