'Shifting Borders: a personal journey in two cultures': images from Kosova, Albania, London and Leicester

“转移边界：两种文化中的个人旅程”：来自科索沃、阿尔巴尼亚、伦敦和莱斯特的图片

• 批准号: AH/E506321/1
• 负责人: Lala Meredith-Vula
• 金额: $ 2.11万
• 依托单位: De Montfort University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2006 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FE506321%2F1
• 关键词: Shifting; Borders; personal; journey; two

'Shifting Borders: a personal journey in two cultures' will create new photographic images from Kosova, Albania, London and Leicester evoking the story of one person's life as emblematic of a wider diaspora- that of Kosova Albanians. I belong to this diaspora, having been born in Former Yugoslavia with a Kosova father and British mother and come to Britain when I was 5. In an environment where cultures are merging and blurring, my research will reveal the universality and trans-national nature of my experience. My photographs will explore issues around the Kosova war and peace, personal identity and family relationships.Working from my personal experience, I will link images to wider social and political issues on migration. I will take as my starting point some observations by V. Flusser in his book The Freedom of the Migrant: Objections to Nationalism. Flusser says that migrants are the avant-garde of the future as their otherness disturbs our everyday ideological perceptions and their presence disrupts the basis of our lives. However, he downplays the poignancy of suffering and of the migrant's existence, which my work recognises as central; and to that extent my work develops out of his theories rather than simply illustrates them.By presenting my personal history over time in a 'high art' context I hope to deepen the way people understand migration and identity. Where the project focuses on the Albanian communities in London and Leicester, issues such as housing, discrimination and integration will be addressed. The work is of significance as the Albanian diaspora is an under­ represented and little understood minority. An estimated 100,000 ethnic Albanians are living in the UK, many of them from Kosova. Their complicated history makes it hard for British people to understand them, especially as a troubled minority has become involved with the darker side of society. They form a close-knit community, with a network of relationships that can be difficult to penetrate; but as I have unique access to them I am able to produce work that will illuminate their lives; and by capturing striking images of these lives in an artistic way I hope to engage audiences with the plight of the refugees.

“移动的边界：两种文化中的个人之旅”将创造来自科索沃、阿尔巴尼亚、伦敦和莱斯特的新摄影图像，唤起一个人的生活故事，作为更广泛的流散的象征——科索沃阿尔巴尼亚人的生活。我出生在前南斯拉夫，父亲是科索沃人，母亲是英国人，5岁时来到英国。在一个文化融合和模糊的环境中，我的研究将揭示我的经历的普遍性和跨国性。我的照片将探讨科索沃战争与和平、个人身份和家庭关系等问题。根据我的个人经验，我将把图像与更广泛的移民社会和政治问题联系起来。我将以弗卢瑟在《移民的自由：对民族主义的反对》一书中的一些观察作为我的出发点。弗卢瑟说，移民是未来的先锋，因为他们的差异性扰乱了我们日常的意识形态认知，他们的存在破坏了我们生活的基础。然而，他淡化了痛苦和移民存在的辛酸，我的作品认为这是核心；在某种程度上，我的工作是在他的理论基础上发展起来的，而不是简单地说明它们。通过在“高雅艺术”的背景下呈现我的个人历史，我希望加深人们对移民和身份的理解。该项目以伦敦和莱斯特的阿尔巴尼亚社区为重点，将解决住房、歧视和融合等问题。这项工作是重要的，因为阿尔巴尼亚侨民是一个代表性不足，了解很少的少数民族。估计有10万阿尔巴尼亚人生活在英国，其中许多人来自科索沃。他们复杂的历史使英国人很难理解他们，尤其是当一个陷入困境的少数民族卷入社会的阴暗面时。他们形成了一个紧密联系的社区，拥有一个难以渗透的关系网络；但由于我有独特的机会接触他们，我能够创作出照亮他们生活的作品；通过以艺术的方式捕捉这些生活中引人注目的图像，我希望能让观众关注难民的困境。