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Paria Goodarzi + Francisco Llinas Casas | Paul Chappells
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Paria Goodarzi + Francisco Llinas Casas | Paul Chappells
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Amber | Edinburgh International Festival | The Studio | Andrew Perry
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Amber | Edinburgh International Festival | The Studio | Andrew Perry
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Amber | Edinburgh International Festival | The Studio | Andrew Perry
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Amber | Edinburgh International Festival | The Studio | Andrew Perry
Two people walk down an empty country road wearing mirrors on their back. Each mirror has text and a carving of a bird. The road is surrounded by fields of grass and gorse. The sky above is grey.
Two people walk down an empty country road wearing mirrors on their back. Each mirror has text and a carving of a bird. The road is surrounded by fields of grass. There are windmills and phone towers in the background.
A half built and half demolished brick wall on a dark stage. There is an undiscernible image projected onto the wall.
Two people, wearing mirrors on their backs, stand on a stage with their backs to the audience. They are building a wall, brick by brick.
Two people, wearing mirrors on their backs, stand on a stage facing the audience. There is a half built brick wall behind them. The man is holding a brick in his hand.
Three people are sat on a stage facing the audience. There is a small tabble with jugs of water in front of them. Behind the, is a constructed brick wall which forms part of the set. The wall is half-built and there are bricks scattered around it.

Amber

Paria Moazemi Goodarzi Francisco Llinas Casas Claricia Parinussa Kruithof

image: Paria Goodarzi + Francisco Llinas Casas | Paul Chappells

An interactive performance documenting a 23-mile walk from Dungavel Detention Centre to the Home Office in Glasgow as part of the Refuge series in collaboration with Edinburgh International Festival.

Iranian and Venezualan multi-disciplinary artists Paria Goodarzi and Francisco Llinas Casas are now settled in Scotland. Commissioned by Scottish Refugee Council in Summer 2021, they reflected on their different experiences of migration on the 70th anniversary of the UN Refugee Convention with a nine-hour walk between two significant local sites used at different stages of the asylum process.

‘I remember holding my mum and dad’s hands…
We would walk, and wait for hours.’

Amber responds to the different paths people seeking safety might take in their migratory journeys and the difficulty of judging their need for protection based on the way they arrive to UK shores. Based on their initial walk, Goodarzi and Casas invited audiences to sense and join them on this unresolved journey. This was followed by a discussion with the artists and interdisciplinary artist and producer Claricia Parinussa Kruithof.

PARIA GOODARZI + FRANCISCO LLINAS CASAS

Paria Goodarzi is from Tehran, Iran and now lives and works in Glasgow. Her work is multi-disciplinary with a background in Contemporary Textile Design and Sculpture & Environmental Art.  Francisco Llinas Casas is from Venezuala and now based in Glasgow. His pieces often take the form of immersive installations that feature sound, video and smell; as well as sculptural arrangements, photos, films and prints. Casas and Goodarzi are co-founders of Distanced Assemblage, an artist-led initiative working in collaboration with diasporic and migrant communities.

CLARICIA PARINUSSA KRUITHOF

claricia parinussa and/or [nussatari] is an interdisciplinary artist with a body-based practice encapsulating movement, performance, research, writing, producing and community organising. They are interested in diasporic multiplicities, unknowings and bodily knowings as sites of potentiality; in opacities, in existences, imaginings; in things and nothings and beings and thinkings, in doings.

REFUGE

Refuge was a season of contemporary theatre, dance, visual art, film and conversation created in collaboration with Edinburgh International Festival to explore themes of refugeehood, migration, identity and inclusion. Presented seventy-five years after Rudolf Bing, himself a refugee, co-founded the Edinburgh International Festival, this season invited 85 artists from over 15 countries to reflect upon the profound impact that migration has had on arts and culture in Scotland and around the world.

The Refuge series was held at The Studio, supported by British Council, Edinburgh Futures Institute at the University of Edinburgh and Claire and Mark Urquhart. Made possible through the PLACE Programme. In collaboration with Scottish Refugee Council.