Yesterday I Lost A Country.

AV Installation, Immersive Design, Motion Design

2021

An immersive AV installation follows the journey of two migrants from their home countries to their current destinations.

The installation uses mapping projection. It’s designed as well to be interactive, where audience have to move around the space following certain instructions from the installation. 


Abstract

However migration is an event happening since the dawn of humanity, the public does not yet well-receive it for many reasons, especially the generalisation, the flattened images of migrants, and the neglect of human aspects of migrant’s journeys.

The project aims to explore migrants’ routes on their own words, follow them from their home countries to their current destination, and develop an audiovisual installation that tells these stories. The aim is to create an individual personal narrative and find the contradictions between their personal stories and the public stories and motivate them to be part of the journeys in the installation time.

To achieve that, two interviews were conducted with two migrants in Berlin. The stories’ complications and the routes’ unclarity were challenging to represent from emotional and authentic perspectives without falling into cliche false representations. 


Installation Concept

– Mobility
– No Control
– Projection Mapping
– Single and Multi-Projections


Deliverables

Two immersive AV installations follow the journey of two migrants (Amin, Tarek) from their home countries to their current destinations.


AV Installation Impression

AMIN

Origin
Baghdad, Iraq

Age
36 years old

Departure Iraq
20th September 2016

Arrival in Berlin
16th February 2017

Current Status in Germany
The asylum application was rejected, Amin received “Duldung” which is a “Temporary Suspension of Deportation”

TAREK

Origin
Cairo, Egypt

Age
34 years old

Departure Iraq
15th September 2013

Arrival in Berlin
January 2016

Current Status in Germany
The asylum application was rejected, Amin received “Duldung” which is a “Temporary Suspension of Deportation”


AV Installation Space Planning

Single Projection

Multi-Projection


AV INSTALLATION SAMLE Preview

AMIN

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TAREK

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AV INSTALLATION Projection Preview
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