About
Re-mind the ‘Nearby’ provides a glimpse into the lives of migrant women – from Eritrea, Syria, Sudan, and the Ukraine – and their experiences of settling and creating a new nearby in Halle (Saale). By paying attention to how migrant women create new relationships with a new environment – while keeping their memories of the old ones alive – the project makes visible the importance of re-thinking our immediate surroundings. Re-minding the ‘Nearby’ is a way of seeing, and a way of remaking ruptured worlds.
The project extends the collaboration between the Department of Anthropology of Economic Experimentation at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle (Saale), DaMigra e.V. and Halle’s Stadmuseum. It builds on My story in Halle (Meine Geschichte in Halle), a five-week workshop supported by the ‘Project GemeinsamMUTig’. The physical exhibition was supported and hosted by Halle’s Stadmuseum offering a compelling experience for visitors from Dec. 2023 to June 2024.
The digital project was conceived, lead, produced and designed by Beatriz Véliz Argueta, Multimedia Visiting Fellow at the Department of Anthropology of Economic Experimentation at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle (Saale).
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