I sommeren 2015 var mediernes sendeflader konstant fyldt med billeder af folk på flugt op gennem Europa. Men hvor blev de efterfølgende af, alle disse flygtninge og migranter, som vandrede langs motorvejene, ankom med toge, busser og lastbiler, og som endte med at slå midlertidigt lejr på Københavns Hovedbanegård under mediernes intense bevågenhed?

Digter og lydkunstner Pejk Malinovski har skabt et nyt virtual reality-værk, This Room, der omhandler flygtningenes videre skæbne i centre over hele Danmark. Centre, som er at finde i tidligere fængsler, hospitaler, skoler, teltlejre og midlertidige strukturer opført med henblik på at huse flygtninge: i fjerntliggende udkantsområder, uden for mediernes søgelys. 

This Room er en virtual reality-installation, hvor to deltagere ad gangen får mulighed for kropsligt at opleve den fornemmelse af stress, frygt og usikkerhed, som præger mange flygtninges transiterfaringer. Rummet er udviklet på basis af en række flygtninges faktiske erindringer om de forskellige opholds- og transitrum, de har befundet sig i, mens de ventede på svar på deres asylsager. Pejk Malinovski er født i 1976 i København. Han bor og arbejder i København og New York.

PRAKTISK INFORMATION

Placering: I vindfanget fra Banegårdspladsen (indgangen mod Vesterbrogade).

Udstillingsperiode: Mandag d. 12. november – søndag d. 25. november kl. 13-18. 

Booking: På den ene af værkets to VR-stationer kan man forhåndsreservere en tid for at besøge værket. Den anden vil være åbne for drop by. Ved denne station skal man dog være opmærksom på, at der kan forekomme kø. 

Værket er kommissioneret af KØS Museum for kunst i det offentlige rum som en del af udstillingsprojektet TRANSIT, der åbnede 13. september 2018. Med udstillingsprojektet TRANSIT sætter KØS fokus på rejsendes personlige og vidt forskellige fortællinger og vilkår i nutidens globaliserede samfund. Læs mere på www.itransit.dk.

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In the summer of 2015, Europe experienced the arrival of record numbers of refugees and migrants, including people from war-torn Syria. Images of people fleeing through Europe filled the media. But where did they go, all these refugees walking along motorways, arriving by train, bus and truck, setting up a provisional camp at Copenhagen Central Station under the glare of media attention?

In answer to this question, poet and sound artist Pejk Malinovski created a new virtual-reality work specifically for TRANSIT. This Room is about the subsequent fates of refugees in refugee camps all over Denmark. Camps located in former prisons, hospitals, schools, camping grounds and temporary structures built to house refugees in remote, isolated areas far from the media spotlight. 

This Room is a virtual-reality installation where two participants at a time can sit on a bench in a narrow room, wearing a VR headset. Using the highly immediate sensory visual universe of virtual reality technology, the participants are led into a fictional space and given a very real, physical sense of the psychological stress, fear and uncertainty that dominate the transit experience of many refugees. The room is based on refugees’ memories of the real-life transit zones and rooms they have occupied while waiting to hear the verdict on their asylum application. This Room can thus be described as a memory-based mapping of the rooms refugees have passed through and stayed in for longer or shorter periods of time since they left Copenhagen Central Station and practically disappeared from the media spotlight. Pejk Malinovski was born in Denmark in 1976. He lives and works in New York, USA.

PRACTIAL INFORMATION

Location: Copenhagen Central Station - the entrance from Vesterbrogade.

Exhibition period: Monday November 12th – Sunday November 25th 01:00 p.m. - 06:00 p.m. 

Booking: The installation has two VR-stations. On this page you can book a time slot for one of them. The other one will be open for drop by, but please be aware that there may be queues.

The VR-installation is commissioned by KØS Museum of Art in Public Spaces and is part of the exhibition project TRANSIT. TRANSIT focus attention on travelers’ different experiences, terms and conditions in our present-day world of mobility, migration and globalization. For more information visit www.itransit.dk