The MASLab Baggage drop (see previous clipboard) is now setting the foundation for Unity, in Community growth with the continuing Migrant X project and adapting the work as political and social realities shift. The Migrant X Borderless Art Performance is still a raw rough copy being scratched out in real time and to create the story throughout at the ongoing workshops and performances. We will be collaborating with people with support needs intersecting art and care where we share our experience through resources, training, and advocacy.
Where events and happenings unfold will be at the MASLab Kitchen Table Talks situated within JHAC in Kidderminster and the Smash Rooms in Ketley near Telford. Where we will bring together a group of thinkers, primarily artists to speak freely about our ongoing projects and whatever comes to the fore.
Kev Gammond has already done the groundwork with the previous Migrant X showcase performance at Kidderminster College theatre, which showed a wide range of migrant referrals and for a larger body of work. The show put the breadth, depth, and continuity of the Migrant-refugee crisis in context and in doing so underlined the MASLab place with an unpredictable mix of art performance and political commentary and how they intersect. See ART FRICTION MIGRANT X clip number 8.
The ongoing story now creates a powerful literal parallel between the two concepts, KG's own personal illness, which mirrors the geopolitical borders faced by the migrants, no safety nets, no guarantees of survival, and risking death drowning in the rivers that separates the US from Mexico.
The MASLab clipboard will, as an evolving repository for the project data, art and community impact, keep it actively updated for both audience and search engine optimisation.