Embassy for the Displaced

Dal-Baħar Madwarha - ‘The island is what the sea surrounds’

is an exhibition negotiating the politics of movement in the mediterranean sea. Featuring is our 3D scanned video 'Where Land Meets Sea'.

Valetta, Malta, 25 March-27 May 2018

Dal-Baħar Madwarha: Group exhibition at the St Elmo Examinations Centre Valletta 2018’s major multi-site exhibition, “Dal-Baħar Madwarha”, opens its doors to curious visitors across the Islands starting from the 10th of Marc

'For the archipelagos ladden with palpable death.'

'Nyktopolitics' is a text we wrote for The Photographers' Gallery online platform.

Nyktopolitics When does the human need to leave the image? And what takes his/her place? How can one attempt to image a life severed by representation, and who has the ethical right to attempt such an aberrant, aniconic distortion?

EFTD & Constantine, Hades, tomorrow, at the Old Stock Exhange, FASMA festival, Athens.

https://fasmafestival.com/artists/constantine-hades-w-eftd

WLMS will be screened and discussed this Friday, March 31st, as part of the Essay Film Festival, held at Birkbeck Institute for the Moving Image.

Session #14: The Architectural Essay Film, with Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL Photo © 2016 Stefanos Levidis Friday 31 March 2017 Birkbeck Cinema, 43 Gordon Square, London, WC1H 0PD 11:00–4:00 | [Free event: Book here] This special collaboration with the Bartlett School of Architecture is in two parts. An introductory talk by Penelope Haralambidou (Bartlett

This Sunday, 26 Feb14:00 - 15:00, De Brakke Grond.

Where Land Meets Sea, 17'

'Over the past year the island’s rugged, mountainous landscape has become host to numerous people fleeing conflict. It is now dotted with piles of debris, boats, lifejackets, discarded passports, aggregations that challenge the rocks’ legitimacy over the land and ‘narrate’ a story of violent dislocations.'

Sonic Acts 2017 - Film Programme 8 Where Land Meets Sea, EFTD, 17’, UK, GR, 2017, lidar film The Sea is History, Louis Henderson, 28', UK, FR, 2016, experimental essay

A reworked and extended version of 'Where Land Meets Sea' will be screened at this year's Sonic Acts festival's Film programme.

Sun 26 Feb14:00 - 15:00, De Brakke Grond
Where Land Meets Sea, EFTD, 17’ lidar film, UK, GR, 2017

http://sonicacts.com/2017/films/film-programme-8

Last September EFTD was invited to participate at the Progress Bar's Festival of Radical Imagination.

'We are attempting to survive our time, so that we may live into yours'

'Displaced Witness' is a collaborative VR installation by Scanlab Projects and EFTD.

It is now open to the public, as part of the 'Disappearance at Sea- Mare Nostrum' exhibition, at the BALTIC Centre For Contemporary Art, Newcastle Upon Tyne, running until May 14th, 2017.

http://balticmill.com/whats-on/exhibitions/disappearance-at-sea-mare-nostrum

'Displaced Witness' is a collaborative VR installation by Scanlab Projects and EFTD that navigates the radical potential of digital media towards an archaeology of present displacement.

The piece will be exhibited among great company, as part of the 'Disappearance at Sea- Mare Nostrum' exhibition, at the Baltic, Newcastle Upon Tyne, that runs from January 27th until May 14th, 2017.

http://balticmill.com/whats-on/exhibitions/disappearance-at-sea-mare-nostrum

EFTD is in Berlin this week, with new works for PAN

Nov 25th.

Back from Krakow.

A photo and a couple of reviews,

https://www.residentadvisor.net/reviews/20121
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/oct/25/unsound-festival-review-experimental-music-krakow-poland

More to follow on this project.

Inner Space: Siberia

A project by Helm, Moa Pillar, and Embassy for the Displaced, for Unsound Festival and PAN.

Performing Saturday, October 22nd at Unsound Krakow 2016.
http://www.unsound.pl/dislocation/events/parallax

Inner Space: Siberia, teaser 4 “Inner Space: Siberia” sees PAN-affiliated artist Helm perform alongside Embassy for the Displaced and Russian musician Moa Pillar. Together they will…