Migrantas
The Berlin artist collective Migrantas was founded in 2004 in Berlin . The collective dedicates itself to the topics of migration , identity and intercultural dialogue through art , design and social sciences . The central means of expression is the artistic and graphic design of pictograms . The pictograms of Migrantas are similar to the pictograms that can be seen all over the world in public spaces, for example in airports.
For Migrantas, pictograms are the universally understandable, simple and standardized design for conveying iconographic messages; Pictograms do not need a lot of words and are used conventionally and language-independent for concise advertising messages, guidance systems or traffic signs. Pictograms are globalized fonts. Migrantas therefore uses the language of pictograms to depict numerous individual, cultural, socio-economic and political aspects of migration. In order to gain experience, Migrantas organizes and leads workshops in social and cultural associations and organizations that work with migrants. It motivates the participants to show their feelings and their personal confrontations in another cultural area and their everyday experiences in simple drawings and condenses these sketches into pictograms.
The aim is to carry the created pictograms into the public space, this is achieved by means of 'urban actions' in a variety of forms: By posting on urban advertising spaces, animations in digital media of local public transport, by distributing postcards widely or by printing on shopping bags. At the same time, Migrantas is conceiving exhibitions which, with its exhibits, not only present the pictograms created as part of a project, but also all the original drawings by the workshop participants. Public recognition is given to all those who have so far never come to the public with their experiences of immigration and migration.
The members of Migrantas are themselves migrants and conceive their work as a horizontal, non-hierarchical dialogue. The project, which is not self-financed, has organized numerous activities in different European cities since 2004.
Migrantas was awarded the Capital Prize for Integration and Tolerance of the Capital Initiative Berlin in 2011 .
Projects and exhibitions (selection)
- 2004 Proyecto Ausländer, Berlin and Buenos Aires .
- 2005 Integration Lauter Bilder von Migrantinnen, Berlin.
- 2006 intercultural workshop, Berlin.
- 2006 Moving Images, Berlin.
- 2007 female federal migrants, Hamburg.
- 2008 female federal migrants, Cologne.
- 2009 Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt .
- 2010 Seville Plural, image of migration in public spaces, Spain.
- 2010 Zeppelin Museum , Friedrichshafen.
- 2011 Europa-Kind + Europa-Schule - Pictures of Diversity, Berlin.
Participation (selection)
- Seyla Benhabib, Judith Resnik (Ed.): Migrations and Mobilities: Citizenship, Borders, and Gender. NY Press, ISBN 0-8147-7600-0 (cover picture)
- Dirk Lange , Ayça Polat (ed.): Migration and everyday life. Our reality is different. Wochenschau-Verlag, Schwalbach / Ts. 2010, ISBN 978-3-89974-659-4 (cover picture and illustration)
- Susanne Stemmler: Multiculture 2.0; Welcome to Germany, a country of immigration. Wallstein Verlag, ISBN 978-3-8353-0840-4 (cover picture)
literature
- Julius Wiedemann (Ed.) Brand Identity Now! Winning brands from around the world. Taschen Verlag, 2009, ISBN 978-3-8365-1584-9 , pp. 138-145. (on-line)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Migrantas artist collective A visual language of migration on: qantara.de on November 4, 2008
- ↑ Zwischenauftenthalt Berlin In: taz.de . November 1, 2007
- ↑ A visual language of migration on: Goethe-Institut .de , April 13, 2011
- ^ "Federal migrants" Pictures of migration in public space on: Foreign Office .de on: May 9, 2011
- ↑ New Video: MIGRANTAS - A Visual Language of Migration ( Memento of the original from January 13, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on: UN Women Retrieved December 11, 2011
- ↑ Julius Wiedemann (Ed.) Brand Identity Now! Winning brands from around the world. Taschen Verlag. 2009
- ↑ Merkel draws integration projects in: Bild.de . March 14, 2011
- ^ Graffiti promote integration in: Der Tagesspiegel Berlin on: April 13, 2011
- ↑ Migrantas o el lenguaje visual de la inmigración ( Memento of the original of February 22, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in: Clarín (Argentina)
- ↑ Zwischenauftenthalt Berlin on taz.de . November 20, 2005
- ↑ headscarf with the Hamburg Coat of Arms migrants show pictograms on hoardings and billboards on: Welt.de . November 7, 2007
- ↑ a b Stick figure with skirt and heart ( Memento of the original from January 6, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on: Stadtrevue.de. in the November 2008 issue
- ↑ hidden: seen images of social change 6 ( memento of the original from January 6, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on: Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt . October 31, 2010
- ↑ Zemos 98 Sevilla plural Migrantas on: ¿Wego !, Revista digital de cultura de Andalucía. on: March 17th, 2010 (Spanish)
- ↑ MIGRANTAS, colectivo en Berlín para un mundo migrante ( Memento of the original from January 5, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on: German Embassy Mexico City Retrieved on: September 10, 2011
- ↑ NEW HEIMAT - BETWEEN THE WORLDS ( Memento of the original from March 6, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on: http://www.zeppelin-museum.de/ on: March 5th, 2010
- ↑ Drawings channel the pain on: http://schwaebische.de/ Retrieved on: December 10, 2011
- ↑ EUROPA-KIND + EUROPA-SCHULE Exhibition opening in the House of World Cultures on: http://www.buendnis-toleranz.de/ on: 2nd Nov 2011
