Due to Covid-19, our planned exhibition in a European location had to be moved and delivered online, and we sought out digital artists to help us create our digital VOLPOWER exhibition. Working with our curator, Dr Maggie Laidlaw, our artists, Dr Alper Kirklar & Dr Ivo Furman, Holly Summerson, and Studio Informal, were invited to engage with our volunteers’ photographic, video, collage and poetic creations, and to advance the ideas already woven through the various media to add richness to our VOLPOWER volunteer stories.
Our artists capture, in creative forms, facets of our volunteer everyday lives and personal narratives, and weave them into inventive audio visual journeys foregrounding our volunteers’ everyday accounts of inclusion, migration, diversity and empowerment. The final works created by the artists are inspired by, and consist of works by our volunteers, and all include notions of time, belonging and inclusion within the context of geographic and cultural (re)location.