In- Transit

Two channel film installation with sound, 16.48 minutes, © Elizabeth Kwant 2017- 2018. Filmed in multiple sites across the Mediterranean - tracing the primary western migration route from Africa to Europe.

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Filmed in multiple locations In Transit traces the primary western migration route across the Mediterranean to Europe. Produced in collaboration and through a series of conversations with British asylum seekers and refugees at The Boaz Trust Manchester. The artist embodies the positions adopted by a migrant ‘in transit’ and performs these movements within the public realm in site- specific locations. The performances are recorded on film and presented as a moving image installation with sound. So far, the artist has performed this work in Casablanca (Morocco), Tangier (Morocco), Algeciras (Spain), Menorca (Mediterranean).

The film has been exhibited recently as part of; TIME after [ ( ) ] after TIME The Briggait, WASPS Studios Glasgow, curated by Lada Wilson and Lucy May Scofield (2019), Radical and Real Film Shorts HOME Manchester (2018), In Transit Genesis Centre Paris (2018), In Transit at Canada House Manchester (2018), Air Gallery Open (2018), Across the Seas Sam Scorer Gallery Lincoln (2018), In Nothing Flat curated by Mark Deverux Projects produced as part of Studiobook17 (2017), Mediterranea at DOK Artist Space Edinburgh curated by Olivia Turner (2017).