Vukašin Nedeljković
Vukašin Nedeljković is an artist based in Ireland. He initiated a multidisciplinary project, Asylum Ar-chive, to collaborate with asylum seekers, artists, academics, civil society activists and immigration lawyers, amongst others, with a view to creating an interactive documentary cross-platform online resource, critically foregrounding accounts of exile, displacement, trauma and memory. Asylum Ar-chive was initiated when Nedeljković was living in a Direct Provision Centre, awaiting the results of his asylum application. He holds an MA in Visual Arts Practice from IADT, and is currently a PhD can-didate at the Technological University Dublin. His solo exhibitions include Earagail Arts Festival, Letterkenny (2020); Triskel Arts Centre, Cork (2019); Garter Lane, Waterford (2017) and Galway Arts Centre (2015). In 2017 was awarded the 2017 Arts Council Artist in the Community scheme Bursa-ry: Art and Activism.
He documented the centres, deliberately choosing not to include people in his photos.
“There are many people of different nationalities speaking their native languages. Men, women, and children wait impatiently to be assessed. I am brought to a small room where two forensic officials take my fingerprints…”
His recent works include Reiterating Asylum Archive: documenting direct provision in Ireland, 2018 and Asylum Archive: an Archive of Asylum and Direct Provision in Ireland, 2016, 2017. Vukašin was recently awarded the 2017 Arts Council Artist in the Community scheme Bursary: Art and Activism. He initiated a multidisciplinary project Asylum Archive, a platform open for dialogue and discussion inclusive to individuals who have experienced a sense of sociological or geographical ‘displacement’, social trauma and violence.
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