Discussion on Enforced Mobility

On the Move — Mon, 13 Jul 2020 13:10:33 +0000

A public session about (En)forced Mobility moderated by Mary Ann DeVlieg with colleagues and artists from Tamizdat, Touring Artists, ICORN and Cité Internationale des Arts.

“We are all going through an experience which is humbling to all of us (or should be), whether it is about international mobility, hospitality in a time of lock-down, or limited future access to different territories and shrinking resources…” — Bénédicte Alliot, Director, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris.

Artists are mobile for many professional reasons, but what if an artist is constrained to leave their home due to conflict or persecution and is invited to an artists’ residency abroad to do so? What happens when such an artist gets locked down in that country due to COVID-19? What happens when temporary support for them mutates into longer-term need? Though some countries are responding to the needs of independent artists’ loss of earnings caused by the virus, what about artists without legal status who, nevertheless, have to survive, not to mention keep making art, for an audience… where?

A one-hour informal discussion of key players including artists, artist residencies, legal and political advocates and national resources that welcome foreign artists, aims to probe our current struggles with these and related questions.

Original post on the website of On the Move: https://on-the-move.org/resources/library/discussion-enforced-mobility

TamizdatAVAIL: US Visa Solving Project for the Performing Arts Sector

On the Move — Sat, 07 Feb 2015 17:29:01 +0000

TamizdatAVAIL (‘Artist Visa Assistance and Information Line’) provides pro bono assistance to the international performing arts community with U.S. visa problems. The project grew in response to the performing arts community’s concern that an increasingly complex and unpredictable U.S. visa process is having a significant negative impact on the presentation of foreign performing artists to U.S. audiences.

TamizdatAVAIL is sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts and run in cooperation with New York Law School, The League of American Orchestras, Canadian Federation of Musicians, New York Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts, and On the Move.

Original post on the website of On the Move: https://on-the-move.org/resources/library/tamizdatavail-us-visa-solving-project-performing-arts-sector