Shadows Talk is a performance is set in a fictional deportation centre, based on the experience of Immigration Detention, researched as artist in residence in these UK centres. The play abstracts the testimonies of despair in detention, the experience of time and waiting, anger and protest, propaganda and politics.
Bordered Lives is the book in which culminates my work on immigration detention. It features images from the Immigration Detention Archive, gathered during a residency with the criminologist Mary Bosworth, who also has an essay in the book. Central is the script and documentation of the performances Imigrazie, Shadows Talk, Men in Waiting and is designed with Christoph Balzar. It brings these materials together in many perspectives on the situation of the detained.
“ImIgrazie” (Indonesian version made for the Pesta Boneka Festival, with Yosephine Wastu Prajnaputri, Yoghi Cahyo Nugroho, and Mo’ong).
The Indonesian version refers to the propaganda puppets inserted into Wayang Kulit by the Soeharto regime in the intermission to communicate to the multilingual masses. The puppets, made during a residency in in Papermoon Theatre, are about populist political discourse.