My project is a video installation, composed of six silent videos, accompanied by sound, presented on small TV monitors. It focuses on themes of otherness and displacement by exploring relationship between media and archive.

By screen recording the livestream online reports during the refugee crisis in 2016, I have created a ‘virtual archive’ of the events that mostly exist in the margins of mainstream media coverage, before they’re lost forever. The videos come together without any editing and will be played in loop. While the videos last between 2 to 5 hours, the audio tracks are about 25-minute-long. As a result, the loop mode generates a different order every time that they play together. 

Here my intention is to create a complex temporal and spatial montage in which viewers can reflect on some of the troubling issues that have surfaced during the COVID-19 pandemic, including the systematic “othering” of immigrants and displaced persons. 

Brief Descriptions of Elements

•	Each video composed of screen recordings made while watching livestream online reports of refugee camps and border crossings.
•	Silent videos presented on six TV monitors on plinths placed throughout the space, on oblique angles.
•	Sound components are a text that I wrote, narrated as voice-over by myself, and an audio track of sparrows singing (as the background sound).