never walk alone meets footnotes
Partners: fences and frontiers, Taran N Khan (London, England) and footnotes, (Hamburg, Germany)
Image © friction_credits Janis Jirotka
“Through this exchange, we aim to explore walking as a feminist practice of resistance and collective care. By combining footnotes’ artistic approach to sound, performance and storytelling with Fences & Frontiers’ sustained engagement with refugee community work in London, we seek to create accessible and immersive experiences that center marginalized voices. Together with author Taran N. Khan, we’ll develop participatory walks using movement, listening and writing to transform shared journeys into acts of connection and resilience. At a time of rising anti-immigration hostility, we’re reclaiming public space as a site where everyone belongs.”
fences and frontiers, Taran N Khan and footnotes
About the partners
Fences & Frontiers
Fences & Frontiers exists to make London a more welcoming, inspiring place for refugees and asylum seekers to rebuild their lives. We offer a range of cultural, educational, and nature-based activities, from hiking groups to creative workshops. We provide a sense of community, an escape from daily fears, and equip people with knowledge and skills to help them overcome barriers to integration.https://www.fencesandfrontiers.org/
footnotes
“footnotes” is an artist collective founded by Linda Gao-Lenders, Janis Jirotka and Shahab Anousha. Working at the intersection of performance, participatory research and music, they explore public space as a site of collective imagination and political contestation. The collective employs /uses methods of relational art practice, (decolonial) counter-reading and deals with the (in)visibility of marginalized bodies. Central to their practice is an intersectional engagement with the political body from feminist, queer, post-colonial, working class and migrant perspectives, examining how geopolitical positionality shapes both the occupation of public space and artistic practice. Drawing from deep listening and embodied practices, “footnotes” traces what may be unseen and creates spaces for the emancipatory potential of public encounter. They aim to keep artistic practices open and accessible, especially to people who are excluded from many parts of society.
Taran N. Khan
Taran N. Khan is a journalist and writer currently based in London. Her first book, Shadow City, won the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year Award and the Tata Literature Live First Book Award for Non-Fiction.
