Cultural Travelling in Leeds Communities (2007/08)
The project has been exhibited at:
Leeds Art Gallery (April -July 2008)
Postgraduate Degree Show 07, University of Leeds (July 2007)
Video-Installation (6 plasma screens with sound, text,
dinner table, portable DVD player) & Site-Specific Event:
Meal in the Exhibition with the 6 Communities.
1900cm x 600cm
Janis Rafailidou attempts to cross cultural boundaries by situating Leeds based communities including Chinese, Asian Muslim, Sikh, Polish, West Indian and Greek groups within an exhibition space. She creates a form of cultural bazaar where visitors are welcome to interact as foreigners inside this multicultural environment and in doing so, engage with discourses of displacement and integration.
Along with the videos on display, Janis hosted a one-off site specific event in her installation. Inside her video-installation Janis organise a meal in the exhibition among the 6 different Communities. The event was documented and presented to the exhibition’s visitors as a video record during the show, on the dinner table where the communities lunched together.
Leeds Art Gallery (April -July 2008)
Postgraduate Degree Show 07, University of Leeds (July 2007)
Video-Installation (6 plasma screens with sound, text,
dinner table, portable DVD player) & Site-Specific Event:
Meal in the Exhibition with the 6 Communities.
1900cm x 600cm
Janis Rafailidou attempts to cross cultural boundaries by situating Leeds based communities including Chinese, Asian Muslim, Sikh, Polish, West Indian and Greek groups within an exhibition space. She creates a form of cultural bazaar where visitors are welcome to interact as foreigners inside this multicultural environment and in doing so, engage with discourses of displacement and integration.
Along with the videos on display, Janis hosted a one-off site specific event in her installation. Inside her video-installation Janis organise a meal in the exhibition among the 6 different Communities. The event was documented and presented to the exhibition’s visitors as a video record during the show, on the dinner table where the communities lunched together.






















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