Artstation on Asylum.
In 2003 Cardiff based artist partnership Artstation was commissioned to engage in a European project which became the cornerstone of Cardiff's bid to become European Capital of Culture for 2008 (Cardiff2008).
The project, Paperwork, created a bridge between the bid's main offices in Cardiff (at the Old Library) and in Brussels (at Le Petite Chateau, Europe's largest and oldest asylum seekers' reception centre). Artstation team: in Brussels - Glenn, Wyn and French climate physicist Herve Gouget; in Cardiff - artist Anne Hayes of Artstation.
An inflated paper installation sliced into the central stairwell of the architecture of the Old Library in Cardiff centre, an accompanying exhibition also featured a 9 min. looped film – (aka Paperwork directed by Wyn), graphics and images, texts, and project website.
The project illuminated and strengthened debate about identity and culture, contributing to a close run Cardiff2008 competition in which Liverpool just piped Cardiff to the post in the final battle. We congratulate Liverpool for the wonderfully staged, recently completed, European Capital of Culture 2008.
For project website http://www.artstation.org.uk/paperwork
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