Together- Voices Across Borders

Do you remember the last time you were forced to migrate or stay? When did the pandemic start to affect our relations and interactions? In order to find another possibility, people have embarked on the routes of migration to seek a place where they are no longer just passing by. However, within the turbulence of drift, freedom is not always guaranteed. The physical and online exhibition of “Together- Voices Across Borders” opened on World Refugee Day and displayed the first-hand stories of forced migrants narrated by reporters from Taiwan and the UK. The multimedia materials presented voices from Syria, Venezuela, Gaza, Rohingya and various corners across the world, showing diverse images of daily life under the global pandemic time. Through interactive installations such as “Keywords for Escape”, “Spacetime Envelope”, “Montage Futurama” and workshops “Find a Way with Refugees”, the exhibition invited everyone from different backgrounds and towards different destinations to reflect on the distance between “us” and “them,” questioning how each others’ life may be overlapped, intersected, and connected more than we thought.

妳／你記得上一次被迫移動、或被迫停留，是什麼時候嗎？疫情又是從什麼時候開始，影響了我們互動的狀態與位置？為了尋找另一種可能，人們踏上遷徙的路途，尋覓一個讓自己不再只是過客的地方。然而，在飄移與流動的顛簸中，並非總能找到自由。「世界難民日：疫起呼吸－穿透邊界的聲音」實體與線上展覽，由臺灣和英國兩地的故事記錄者聯手，整理與敘利亞、委內瑞拉、加薩、羅興亞等被迫遷徙者的第一手訪談紀錄，呈現全球疫情肆虐下多面貌的生活樣態。此外，並透過「逃難關鍵字」、「時空信封」、「未來蒙太奇」等互動參與機制與「與難民找路」工作坊，邀請大眾走進被迫遷徙者的日常，反思自身與難民的距離。