Refugee Tales

... For all that the Tales focused attention on traumatic and unjust events, the walk itself was charged with relief. For those of us who had been detained, this sense of relief came from being freely out and about, a way of being in space that for some hadn't been available for several years. For others the relief came of ocupying a space in a way that was not governed by the prevailing discourse.

The walking itself was the key. As the environment altered day by day, so the project's shared reality itself became dynamic. With each new situation - each new formation of people or landscape - new possibilities of conversation emerged. Other forms of conduct were not just theoretically possible but were, however temporarily, actually the case ...

From David Herd on Refugee Tales in Resurgence 295, March/April 2016.