Bordered Miles
Join us for 'Bordered Miles', a day-long group walk from the University of Glasgow to Dungavel House Immigration Removal Centre with artist Iman Tajik. 'Bordered Miles' stresses the need for resistance towards barriers and boundaries and invites participants to think about political and social systems that favour some but not all.
The Hunterian and artist Iman Tajik
Date: Saturday 23 September 2023
Time: 08:00 - 19:30
Venue: Glasgow
Category: Exhibitions, Social events, Student events, Alumni events
Speaker: n/a
This September, artist Iman Tajik will stage Bordered Miles, a day-long group walk from the University of Glasgow to Dungavel House Immigration Removal Centre, south of the city. An extension of Tajik’s ongoing interest in the concept of the border, the walk invites participants to pay close attention to the movement of bodies as a fundamental right, and to think about the political and social systems that prevent people from being able to exercise that right.
Starting on the University of Glasgow campus, participants will walk from the West End of Glasgow to the outskirts of the city, passing through industrial estates and the Scottish countryside. It concludes as participants arrive at the Immigration Removal Centre to raise and fly a flag made by Tajik out of an emergency safety blanket as a symbol of reclaiming that political space.
Join friends and colleagues for the day-long group walk in solidarity with those who have crossed and tried to cross borders on a journey to a better life.
Iman Tajik is an Iranian artist and photographer based in Glasgow, Scotland. He works across lens-based media, sculpture, installations and performance. Through these various mediums, he ’performs the border’, inspired by personal experiences of crossing geographical borders and socio-political barriers to insist on the right to freedom of movement. Tajik’s politically-engaged work features in current exhibition Unravelling Times at the Hunterian Art Gallery. Find out more.