{"id":2494,"date":"2016-11-04T13:55:26","date_gmt":"2016-11-04T13:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/english.lycee.nl\/?page_id=2494"},"modified":"2020-10-23T18:27:43","modified_gmt":"2020-10-23T17:27:43","slug":"immigrant-voices","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/mrglackin.eu\/?page_id=2494","title":{"rendered":"Immigrant Voices: Artists&#8217; interpretations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">MUSIC AND FILM<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Elbow - The blanket of the night [Live] [Lyrics]\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kiAD8u6nu2I?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yTl44yUgqnM\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Top 10 Inspiring Immigration Movies\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rHyIIZTYYlw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"#WithSyria\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2VVoCxdm7T8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Most Shocking Second a Day Video\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RBQ-IoHfimQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>STUDENTS PUTTING THEMSELVES IN IMMIGRANT SHOES<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 854px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('video');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-2494-1\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"http:\/\/english.lycee.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMMIGRANT-STORIES.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/english.lycee.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMMIGRANT-STORIES.mp4\">http:\/\/english.lycee.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMMIGRANT-STORIES.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<div class=\"song_body column_layout\">\n<div class=\"column_layout-column_span column_layout-column_span--primary\">\n<div class=\"song_body-lyrics\">\n<div class=\"lyrics\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<section>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">ART<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"link-5e67ac3\">Tatyana Fazlalizadeh<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Born in Oklahoma City in 1985.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"http:\/\/mrglackin.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Tatyana-Fazlalizadehs-Portrait-of-My-Father-as-an-Alien-2018-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3318\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mrglackin.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Tatyana-Fazlalizadehs-Portrait-of-My-Father-as-an-Alien-2018-1024x683.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/mrglackin.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Tatyana-Fazlalizadehs-Portrait-of-My-Father-as-an-Alien-2018-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/mrglackin.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Tatyana-Fazlalizadehs-Portrait-of-My-Father-as-an-Alien-2018-768x512.jpg 768w, http:\/\/mrglackin.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Tatyana-Fazlalizadehs-Portrait-of-My-Father-as-an-Alien-2018-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/mrglackin.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Tatyana-Fazlalizadehs-Portrait-of-My-Father-as-an-Alien-2018-450x300.jpg 450w, http:\/\/mrglackin.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Tatyana-Fazlalizadehs-Portrait-of-My-Father-as-an-Alien-2018.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Tatyana Fazlalizadeh&#8217;s Portrait of My Father as an Alien, 2018<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>How we treat each other is based not only on our interpersonal interactions, but on how social and political structures inform our opinions ofpeople and subsequently how we treat or mistreat them. I\u2019m curious about how the hateful rhetoric and policies of our current administration influence our impressions of immigrants. \u201cPortrait of My Father as an Alien\u201d is an oil painting based on his \u201cresident alien\u201d ID card photo from when he came to the\u00a0United States\u00a0from Iran in the 1970s. My intention was to take an image of him that was presented as \u201calien\u201d to this country, and to view it with the understanding that he was a person \u2014 a father, a husband, a human being. It is essential to ask ourselves, how do we resist the dangerous narratives of immigrants that have been presented to us and instead see and uplift the humanity and rights of individuals?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"http:\/\/mrglackin.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Kimsoojas-To-Breathe-Zone-of-Nowhere-2018-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3319\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mrglackin.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Kimsoojas-To-Breathe-Zone-of-Nowhere-2018-1024x683.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/mrglackin.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Kimsoojas-To-Breathe-Zone-of-Nowhere-2018-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/mrglackin.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Kimsoojas-To-Breathe-Zone-of-Nowhere-2018-768x512.jpg 768w, http:\/\/mrglackin.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Kimsoojas-To-Breathe-Zone-of-Nowhere-2018-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/mrglackin.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Kimsoojas-To-Breathe-Zone-of-Nowhere-2018-450x300.jpg 450w, http:\/\/mrglackin.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Kimsoojas-To-Breathe-Zone-of-Nowhere-2018.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Kimsooja&#8217;s &#8216;To Breathe &#8211; Zone of Nowhere&#8217;, 2018<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<h2 id=\"link-72f73b66\" class=\"css-146fa4k eoo0vm40\">Kimsooja<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-158dogj evys1bk0\"><em class=\"css-2fg4z9 e1gzwzxm0\">Born in Taegu, South Korea, in 1957.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-158dogj evys1bk0\">This work combines and transposes six national flags that, together, form a new transnational flag. They are layered in alphabetical order by country, including nations that are not internationally recognized, without hierarchy or political prejudice. The piece comes from the video \u201cTo Breathe \u2013 The Flags\u201d (2012), a commission from the International Olympic Committee on the occasion of the London 2012 Summer Olympics, which depicts 246 flags of the participating nations dissolving in a continuous loop, their iconic designs morphing into one another. I wanted to present the flags as indistinguishable cross-pollinating visual symbols, to empty and reconfigure their purported intent \u2014 as symbols of state sovereignty and nationhood \u2014 in order to blur and transcend national borders. This work is a call for coexistence, for an ideal world in which individuals can unite in celebration of our distinctions and of our common humanity.<\/p>\n\n<h2 id=\"link-bb239e0\" class=\"css-146fa4k eoo0vm40\">Alfredo Jaar<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-158dogj evys1bk0\"><em class=\"css-2fg4z9 e1gzwzxm0\">Born in Santiago, Chile, in 1956.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"http:\/\/mrglackin.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Alfredo-Jarr-Ellis-Island-2024-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3320\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mrglackin.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Alfredo-Jarr-Ellis-Island-2024-1024x683.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/mrglackin.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Alfredo-Jarr-Ellis-Island-2024-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/mrglackin.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Alfredo-Jarr-Ellis-Island-2024-768x512.jpg 768w, http:\/\/mrglackin.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Alfredo-Jarr-Ellis-Island-2024-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/mrglackin.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Alfredo-Jarr-Ellis-Island-2024-450x300.jpg 450w, http:\/\/mrglackin.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Alfredo-Jarr-Ellis-Island-2024.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Alfredo Jarr, &#8216;Ellis Island 2024<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This photograph depicts Ellis Island as it might appear in 2024, completely transformed into a park with no traces of what exists there today. Ellis Island, a former inspection station that saw millions of immigrants to the United States pass through its doors during the 19th and 20th centuries, was once a beautiful symbol of solidarity and openness. With this image, I would like to suggest that the values represented by Ellis Island are vanishing before our eyes.<\/p>\n\n\n<h2 id=\"link-672fc777\" class=\"css-146fa4k eoo0vm40\">Hayv Kahraman<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-158dogj evys1bk0\"><em class=\"css-2fg4z9 e1gzwzxm0\">Born in Baghdad, Iraq in 1981.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"http:\/\/mrglackin.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Hayv-Kahramans-22Kurds22-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3321\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mrglackin.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Hayv-Kahramans-22Kurds22-1024x683.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/mrglackin.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Hayv-Kahramans-22Kurds22-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/mrglackin.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Hayv-Kahramans-22Kurds22-768x512.jpg 768w, http:\/\/mrglackin.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Hayv-Kahramans-22Kurds22-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/mrglackin.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Hayv-Kahramans-22Kurds22-450x300.jpg 450w, http:\/\/mrglackin.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Hayv-Kahramans-22Kurds22.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Hayv Kahraman&#8217;s &#8220;Kurds,&#8221;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<div class=\"css-1fanzo5 StoryBodyCompanionColumn\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-158dogj evys1bk0\">The placid mirage on a strip of the road reminded me of my country. For a moment I felt transported. The image of the desert spoke covertly of my past and future. It was as if temporality was absent. Two distinct spaces that in reality had declared war on one another, and yet here they were in front of me, indistinguishable. I caught myself suddenly and gained composure, reminding myself that I am in a land that was\/is currently at war with my homeland.<span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">A warm, flickering beam of sunlight brushes my eye and I squint. The apparition of water conjures up childhood memories of driving from Baghdad to Al Habbaniya, and the time that I asked my dad about mirages. A mirage, he said, is a distant illusion of water created when hot air meets cool air. It\u2019s not real. It only exists in your mind. Do we all see mirages? I asked. Yes, we all see them.<\/span><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">This shared perception of water makes me realize that, whether we are in the\u00a0United States\u00a0or in Iraq, we are all part of a collective species sharing one global platform where margins are consistently being negotiated and contested. Today I physically find myself on the other side of the line, struggling to keep my memories afloat. You have made it clear that I\u2019m an \u201cOther\u201d but I refuse to be erased. This is my position as an immigrant and refugee yet I still share the same vision of water on the road as anyone else.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<h2 id=\"link-522691b6\" class=\"css-146fa4k eoo0vm40\">Edel Rodriguez<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-158dogj evys1bk0\"><em class=\"css-2fg4z9 e1gzwzxm0\">Born in Havana, Cuba in 1971.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"http:\/\/mrglackin.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Edel-Rodriguezs-Strangers-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3322\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mrglackin.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Edel-Rodriguezs-Strangers-1024x683.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/mrglackin.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Edel-Rodriguezs-Strangers-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/mrglackin.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Edel-Rodriguezs-Strangers-768x512.jpg 768w, http:\/\/mrglackin.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Edel-Rodriguezs-Strangers-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/mrglackin.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Edel-Rodriguezs-Strangers-450x300.jpg 450w, http:\/\/mrglackin.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Edel-Rodriguezs-Strangers.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Edel Rodriguez&#8217;s \u201cStrangers,\u201d<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Boat people, that\u2019s what many immigrants are considered. I was one of them, a refugee. I understand that welcoming strangers can be dangerous. Throughout history, many countries have sent their best, as well as their worst, to the United States. Irish gangs and the Italian Mafia, among many other criminal groups, flourished here soon after their arrival. We have always lived with the dangers of accepting foreigners, and we have always dealt with them, knowing that those are the risks a country must assume if it is to be a beacon to the entire world. This country now seems scared to take risks on foreigners, to bet on the possibility that the next boat full of strangers might be full of greatness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"link-509f0779\">Art Spiegelman<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Born in Stockholm, Sweden in 1948<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"http:\/\/mrglackin.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Art-Spiegelmans-22A-Warm-Welcome22-2015-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3323\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mrglackin.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Art-Spiegelmans-22A-Warm-Welcome22-2015-1024x683.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/mrglackin.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Art-Spiegelmans-22A-Warm-Welcome22-2015-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/mrglackin.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Art-Spiegelmans-22A-Warm-Welcome22-2015-768x512.jpg 768w, http:\/\/mrglackin.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Art-Spiegelmans-22A-Warm-Welcome22-2015-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/mrglackin.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Art-Spiegelmans-22A-Warm-Welcome22-2015-450x300.jpg 450w, http:\/\/mrglackin.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Art-Spiegelmans-22A-Warm-Welcome22-2015.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Art Spiegelman&#8217;s &#8220;A Warm Welcome,&#8221; 2015<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I first saw the Statue of Liberty in October 1950 while perched high on my father\u2019s shoulders. My parents, survivors of Hitler\u2019s death camps, had been granted immigration visas to the United States, and all the passengers were crowded on the foredeck of the\u00a0Gripsholm\u00a0as we approached the harbor. I was less than 3 years old when my father excitedly pointed at the giant lady standing in the water to welcome us to New York. I was suitably awed until we got closer and was disappointed to see that she was \u201cjust\u201d a statue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I remember my mother reciting the Emma Lazarus sonnet inscribed on the statue\u2019s base to me in my childhood as if it were liturgy: \u201cGive me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free\/The wretched refuse of your teeming shore\/Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me.\u201d In the decades since, I had to learn how often Emma Lazarus\u2019s sentiments have been betrayed by harsh immigration policies. ICE has scorched the dreams of many of the tempest-tost and these days actively betrays that inscription with a cruelty my parents had hoped they had left behind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MUSIC AND FILM STUDENTS PUTTING THEMSELVES IN IMMIGRANT SHOES \u00a0 ART Tatyana Fazlalizadeh Born in Oklahoma City in 1985. How we treat each other is based not only on our interpersonal interactions, but on how social and political structures inform our opinions ofpeople and subsequently how we treat or mistreat them. 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