Fractured World: Displacement, Diaspora and Poetry
Channel: ILHAM Gallery
Date: 2020-04-09

TITLE: FRACTURED WORLD - DISPLACEMENT, DIASPORA AND POETRY
FEATURING: Abdulsalam Ash, Amal Hajj Sulaiman, Jack Malik, Masuma Takavoli, Mwaffaq Alhajjar, and Shamshad Ahmad Chaudhry
PRESENTER: Jo Kukathas

In conjunction with the exhibition Fracture/Fiction, ILHAM invites poets currently living in Malaysia to perform their work about different kinds of fracturing — lives, identity, family, home and society. 

These poets write about the fractures that exist in their lives and their society both here and in the countries of their birth. Many of the poets are from the refugee and migrant communities, bringing unexpectedly lyrical and poetic perspectives of our fragmented world into sharp view. Introduced by Jo Kukathas in collaboration with Beyond Borders. 

Recorded on 2 November 2019

The high resolution and uncompressed version of this video can also be viewed and obtained at ILHAM Gallery's public resource centre.

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