Category Archives: Storytelling

Journey: final day

By tom | Published: 22/10/2010

Over the past week we’ve heard hundreds of heartbreaking stories of people doing unspeakable things to people.

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They don’t mind the electronically self-fucking bed, neither do they mind the condom curtain, they don’t even mind the explicit auto-porno-pose-brothel-Polaroids, but they are having a problem with the smell in THE BEDROOM

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Journey: day three

By tom | Published: 17/10/2010

Most prosecutions have to rely on victims’ statements, and barristers for the accused love to destroy vulnerable people in the dock.

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Journey: day two

By tom | Published: 15/10/2010

This final stage of the JOURNEY experience explores the faceless rhetoric governments and border agencies use to slag-off and dehumanise trafficked women. Many of the bureaucratic cultures that judge trafficked women are steeped in prejudice and prefer to think that women are playing at being prostitutes to get asylum.

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Journey: day one

By tom | Published: 14/10/2010

We are told that awareness of trafficking is good in Holland, but many people don’t know that it is happening on their doorstep. We find this all over the world and JOURNEY becomes the missing link between the perception and the reality.

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Sweetly mixed

By tim | Published: 13/09/2010

The need to ensure that museum visitors ‘get’ everything first time is corrosive and limiting. There’s nothing wrong with captions and catalogues that stretch our understanding, that is what the process of learning involves, after all