About
Re-mind the ‘Nearby’ provides a glimpse into the lives of migrant women – from Eritrea, Syria, Sudan, and Ukraine – and their experiences of settling and creating a new nearby in Halle (Saale). By paying attention to how migrant women create new relationships with a new environment – while keeping their memories of the old ones alive – the project makes visible the importance of re-thinking our immediate surroundings. Re-minding the ‘Nearby’ is a way of seeing and understanding place, and a way of remaking ruptured worlds.
The project extends the collaboration between the Department of ’Anthropology of Economic Experimentation’ at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle (Saale), DaMigra e.V. and Halle’s Stadmuseum. It builds on My story in Halle (Meine Geschichte in Halle), a five-week workshop supported by the ‘Project GemeinsamMUTig’. The physical exhibition was supported and hosted by Halle’s Stadmuseum offering a compelling experience for visitors from Dec. 2023 to July 2024.
The digital project combines audio and visual tools for following migrant women’s journeys and their growing intertwinement with the life of the city. Each individual podcast, a multi-vocal documentary, explores how these women navigate the city’s multi-layered urban space and carve a place for themselves in it. Together, these stories provide a counternarrative to mainstream media by painting a picture of the sacrifices involved in the process of migration and flight alongside details of everyday life in Eastern Germany.
The digital project was conceived, led, produced and designed by Beatriz Véliz Argueta, Multimedia Visiting Fellow at the’Anthropology of Economic Experimentation’ Department at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle (Saale).
The project extends the collaboration between the Department of ’Anthropology of Economic Experimentation’ at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle (Saale), DaMigra e.V. and Halle’s Stadmuseum. It builds on My story in Halle (Meine Geschichte in Halle), a five-week workshop supported by the ‘Project GemeinsamMUTig’. The physical exhibition was supported and hosted by Halle’s Stadmuseum offering a compelling experience for visitors from Dec. 2023 to July 2024.
The digital project combines audio and visual tools for following migrant women’s journeys and their growing intertwinement with the life of the city. Each individual podcast, a multi-vocal documentary, explores how these women navigate the city’s multi-layered urban space and carve a place for themselves in it. Together, these stories provide a counternarrative to mainstream media by painting a picture of the sacrifices involved in the process of migration and flight alongside details of everyday life in Eastern Germany.
The digital project was conceived, led, produced and designed by Beatriz Véliz Argueta, Multimedia Visiting Fellow at the’Anthropology of Economic Experimentation’ Department at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle (Saale).
